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TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Director's Message ...... 5

Michigan Opera Theatre Officers & Directors ...... 11

MOT Board of Trustees ...... 12

MOT Administration & Staff...... 15 MOT Orchestra ...... 18 Tosca ...... 21 Contributors ...... 29 Carmen ...... 32 Overture to Opera ...... 41

MOT - The First Decade...... 42

MOTGuild ...... 46 Anoush ...... 49 Music Hall Center ...... 65

Profiles...... 67 The Mikado ...... 85 The MOT Poster: Carol Wald ...... 89 Porgy and Bess ...... 91 MOT Artist Interns ...... 95 Special Services ...... 10 1

MOT Program Prompters ...... 115 Index of Advertisers ...... 116

The official program book for MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE, published annually for the MOT season at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, 350 Madison Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48226.

Editor ...... R. Edward Townley Assistant editor / Advertising manager ...... Mimi Mayer Advertising & editorial assistant . ... Gordon Ostrowski Public relations Intern ...... Suzanne Acton Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre As Michigan Opera Theatre embarks upon the first season of its second decade, the company's contributions to the quality of life in Michigan continue to grow. The opera season in Detroit's Music Hall has expanded to five productions, with more performances and a wider variety than ever before. And MOT's unique Opera-in-'Residence program will offer local residents across the state a week-long involvement in work shops, rehearsals and special programs, culminating in fully staged performances of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly."

Michigan Opera Theatre is a vital and important cultural force in the State of Michigan. I am pleased to extend to Dr. David DiChiera and the entire company my best wishes for this season and for many more to come.

Sincerely, ~')::J.~ WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN Governor

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 6 As Michigan Opera Theatre enters its eleventh season in the Music Hall, it reflects more clearly than ever the extraordinary cultural richness and diversity of the City of Detroit. This year, in addition to popular works by Italian, French, and English composers, the Com pany is offering Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" - a great musical of special significance to Black Americans - and the first profes sional performances in the Free World of "Anoush," a much-loved masterpiece from the great Armenian people. .

By bringing national attention to the many cultural strands that make up our great City, Dr. David DiChiera brings great credit to Michigan Opera Theatre, and to the City of Detroit as well. It is my pleasure to welcome the Company and its patrons at the outset of this important and exciting season. ~~& COLEMAN A. YOUNG /Lfi7 Mayor /

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 7 8 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre This is an important season for Michigan Opera Theatre - a season of renewed traditions and new commitments. I am delighted you have chosen to be a part of it.

The first new commitment is to an enlarged, five-production season at the Music Hall, in addition to tour and outreach activities. It is your support and enthusiasm that have encouraged us to expand both the number of performances and the scope of the overall season. It is also in response to your preferences that we have partially restored the MOT tradition of a season spread out as much as possible throughout the fall and winter.

This season renews two of the most iinportant traditions we have established at MOT: a commitment to opera in English and a dedication to the American musical theatre. We are also continuing our newer project of offering several per formances in the original language to those of you who prefer it.

And finally , we are launching an exciting new exploration of the opera repertoire beyond the Italian, French and German mainstreams, to discover works that deserve to be better known outside their own cultures. Anoush, an Armenian opera by Armen Tigranian, is the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series of new discoveries . We are pleased to be offering this beautiful work in its American premiere, and in a new English translation created especially for MOT.

It cannot be a surprise to any of you that this growth and renewal becomes more expensive each year. Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts is essential and appreciated; it is also increasingly threatened in these times of fiscal austerity.

We are also grateful to a number of foundations who are supporting several of our most important activities this season: The Ruth R. Mott Fund for educational projects, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music , Inc ., for our Artist Intern Program, and both the McGregor Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for operational support. In addition, we are pleased to be the recipient of a $40,000 grant from the Eloise and Richard Webber Foundation to allow us to undertake a much-needed strategiC planning process to plot our future course with more assurance. These are but a few of many such grants that provide impor tant support as well as proof that our purpose and goals seem strong.

While both corporate and individual donations have also risen encouragingly, more must be found in these two vital communities if MOT is to continue to prosper. The Anoush project provided a fine example of what can be done; the Armenian community raised more than $40,000 to offset the extraordinary costs involved in creating an entirely new production, and the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Milliken Foundation and the Michigan Council for the Humanities provided further support.

It is , then, a time of concern for the problems ahead and pride in our accomplishments to date. And above all, it's a time to realize what the work is all about: the joy of experiencing some of the world's greatest musical theatre In our comfortable and intimate Music Hall home. Welcome. Dr. David DIChlera, General Director Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 9 M The Js are full of LOF. l LOF Glass has worl

Officers Robert E. Dewar, chairman David DIChlera, president H. James Gram, treasurer J. Addison Bartush, secretary

Board of Directors J. Addison Bartush Paul F. Livingston Joyce Cohn John McDougall Robert E. Dewar John Prepolec David DiChiera E. Harwood Rydholm Frank W. Donovan Arthur R. Seder, Jr, Marianne Endicott Harold L. Smith H. James Gram Roberta Starkweather John C . Griffin Robert C. VanderKloot David Hermelin Sue Vitltoe Alice Johnston Donald E. Young Walton A. Lewis Morton Zieve

Founding Members Mr. and Mrs . Avem L. Cohn Mr . and Mrs. John DeCarlo Dr. and Mrs . David DIChlera Mr . and Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. and Mrs. Donaid C. Graves Honorable and Mrs. Roman S. Gribbs Mr. and Mrs . John C. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Jones Honorable and Mrs . Wade McCree, Jr. Harry J . Nederlander E. Harwood Rydholm Mr. and Mrs . Nell Snow Mr . and Mrs . Richard Strlchartz Mr . and Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs . Robert C. VanderKloot Mr . and Mrs. Sam B. Williams Mr . and Mrs. Theodore O . Yntemll

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Ajluni Mr. and Mrs. John D. Leighton Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. Frederic LeVine Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. and Mrs . David Lewis Mr. and Mrs. John Wendell Anderson II Mr. and Mrs. Leonard T. Lewis Dr . and Mrs . Robyn Arrington Mr. and Mrs. Walton A. Lewis Dr. and Mrs. Donald C . Austin Dr. and Mrs . Kim K. Lie Mr. and Mrs. J. Merriam Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Livingston Mr. and Mrs . J. Addison Bartush Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. LoCicero Mr. L. Karl Bates Mr. and Mrs. Alan Loofbourrow Mr. and Mrs. W. Victor Benjamin Mr. and Mrs . Ray M. Macdonald Mr. John Bloom Mrs. Jessie B. Mann Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Borden Mr. and Mrs. John McCabe Mrs . Irene D. Casaroll Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCabe Mr. and Mrs. Martin J . Caserio Honorable and Mrs. Wade McCree, Jr. Mrs. Maxine Clements Mr . and Mrs. John McDougall Mr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Cody Mr. and Mrs. Paul S . Mirabito Judge and Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Mr . and Mrs. Richard O'Connor Mrs. Abraham Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Jules L. Pallone Mr. and Mrs. Rodkey Craighead Mr. and Mrs. David Pollack Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Mr . and Mrs. John Prepolec Dr. and Mrs. David DiChiera Mr. E. Harwood Rydholm Mr. and Mrs . Frank W. Donovan Mr. and Mrs . William Schlageter Mr. Larry Doss Mr. and Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs . Charles M. Endicott Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Seder, Jr. Mr. and Mrs . Elliott M. Estes Mr . and Mrs. Richard Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher III Mr . and Mrs. Harold L. Smith Mr. and Mrs . Douglas Fraser Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Smith Mrs. Joyce Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Neil Snow Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Gerbig, Jr. Mr. and Mrs . Richard D. Starkweather Mr. and Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Stella Mrs . Aaron Gershenson Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Stoddard Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Gornick Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strichartz Mr. and Mrs . H. James Gram Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Judge and Mrs. Roman S . Gribbs Mr. and Mrs . Lynn A. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. John C . Griffin Mrs. Joseph A. Vance, Jr. Mr. and Mrs . Craig B. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. VanderKloot Mrs. Robert Hamady Mr. and Mrs . Dudley A. Ward Mr. and Mrs . E. Jan Hartmann Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Warner Mr. and Mrs. David Hermelin Mr. and Mrs . Victor Wertz Mr. and Mrs. Wesley R. Johnson Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr . and Mrs. R. Jamison Williams Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Sam B.' Williams Mr. Jefferson Jordan Mr. and Mrs . Charles Wollenzin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Jospey Mr. and Mrs. R. Alexander Wrigley Mr. and Mrs. Semon Knudsen Mr. and Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema Mr. and Mrs. Jay Kogan Mr. and Mrs . Donald E. Young Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kulis Mr. and Mrs. Morton Zieve

MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE Is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts In Washington .

ThiS MOT season Is also made possible with the support of the State of Michigan through funds from the Michigan Council for the Arts. For further information on available services and programs, contact the Council at 1200 Sixth Avenue in Detroit. 12 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Advertising is the song of business.

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Administrative Staff Elizabeth Eckert Assistant to the Director of Productions Toni Gillespie Assistant to the Director of Education Mimi Mayer Assistant to the Director of Public Relations Deborah Micallef Assistant to the Director of Development Jerry Nardecchia Assistant to the Director of Fin(;mce Gordon Ostrowski Marketing Assistant Maggie Porter Receptionist Betty Ann Schneider Assistant to the General Director

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 15 Production Staff Mark D. Flint Director, Young Artist's Program Marilyn Rennagel Dr. David DiChiera, General Director Lighting Consultant Robert Murphy Music Staff Technical Director Mark D. Flint Elizabeth Eckert Music Director Production Administrator George Darden Peggy Imbrie Coach/ Accompanist Production Stage Manager Robert Myers Ulla Hettinger Chorus Master Costume Supervisor John Dion Steven Horak Orchestra Personnel Manager Make-up and Wig Master Michael Krajewski Marc Cervania Musical Assistant Stage Manager Ken Cazan Production Interns Assistant Stage Manager Marion B. Solomon Abe Maius Costuming Master Carpenter Catherine Wesolowski David Sugar Costuming Master Flyman Joe Bascetta Tom Bryant Directing Master Electrician Rebecca Watson Jack Brock Make-up Stage Properties Head Libation, Richard Hancock William McCarty Crustacean & Production/ Music Administration Property Master Fascination ... Suzanne Acton Jeffrey Guzik Public Relations/ Marketing Assistant Lighting Designer Fresh seafood year round. Jeff Oren Nicholas John Mozak Raw Bar. Spirits. Lively & Stage Management Wardrober .Master elegant Downtown & A in the suburbs. Brian Plunkett Jeff Nahan rv Technical Movement Instructor c Scott Ignaszewski Stage Employees Local #38 IATSE You haven't been to Technical Detroit until you'Ve been to ~ e

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conductor Willie Anthony Waters

director presents Sarah Ventura

English version GIACOMO PUCCINI Joseph Machlis

sets Thomas P. Struthers constructed by Pittsburgh Opera. Inc. OSCA lighting Curt Ostermann

Opera in Three Acts costumes Malabar Ltd. , Toronto

THE CAST

Floria Tosca .. .. Nancy Shade - October 2, 4, 10 Stephanie Sundine - October 3, 6, 9

Mario Cavaradossi . .. . Francisco Ortiz - October 2, 4, 10 Jon Fredric West - October 3, 6, 9

Baron Scarpia .... Andrew Smith - October 2, 4, 10 Andreas Poulimenos - October 3, 6, 9

Angelotti .... Richard Cowan·

Sacristan .... Steven Henrikson

Sciaronne .... Dennis Leach·

Jailer .... Robert Ferrier·

Spoletta .... Eric Johnson·

Shepherd .... Peter Dunn In Italian: October 2,4, & 10, 1981 • Member, MOT Artist Intern Program In English: October 3, 6, 9, 1981

Rome - June 17, 1800 ACT ONE: The Church of San!' Andrea della Valle TO ACT TWO: Scarpia's apartment in the Farnese Palace ACT THREE: A terrace of the Castel San!' Angelo SYNOPS MOT Artist Interns MOT Auxiliary Chorus MOT Children's Chorus Gong Ja Cho Melanie Al Shabkhoun Karim AI Shabkhoun The date is Peter Clegg Pat Balysh Walter AI Shabkhoun setting is R Richard Cowan Jonathan Blackshire John Dunn was a Papa Robert Ferrier Gregory Bryant Peter Dunn control of t Diane Jamison Christian Caubet Sarah Fraser French Sarah Johannsen Donald Gallup Roy Hall Bonaparte Eric Johnson Lynn Howard Cathleen Heffernan Iy, suppor Michael Kohler Thomas Howard Meghan Heffernan Rome hopi Dennis Leach Aaron Hunt Nina Kertesz authoritaric Kathleen Segar Lynn Kasch Martha Kolojeski a restoratic Lee Starr Robert Kinnear Tanisha Kramer Douglas O. Wayland Elizabeth Mar-Aston Nicholas Nagrant ACT ONI Melanie Zoghby Kim Minasian Jason Ravitz Sant' And Richard Mox Jessica Ravitz a promin€ Kim Phillips Dolly Shiina State who David Reynolds Emiko Shiina prison mer Ray Roberts Angelo, ' Diane Rowlands and hide Pat Smith The Children's Chorus is a jOint project oj chapel. T Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit Com-. fo\1o\.l Susan Stine munity Music School, trained by Elizabeth ICn , d Hezekiah Williams Eckert and Shirley Hardin_ avara c ture of M is workir realizes tl ------inspired (Angelot1 dossi ha~ chapel. I a miniat Floria T< trait is al of the bl Tosca.

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22 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Angelotti his lunch basket and helps Tosca returns to tell Cavaradossi that him back into hiding. she cannot meet him that night as planned, since she is to sing for the Floria Tosca, the most beautiful and Queen in a victory celebration in the popular singer in Rome, arrives to Farnese Palace, and Scarpia quickly OSCA visit her lover, Cavaradossi. After realizes that her jealousy can lead praying to the Madonna, she him to Cavaradossi and Angelotti. arranges to meet the painter at his Using both the painting and the fan SYNOPSIS villa outside Rome after her perfor as "evidence," he persuades Tosca :horus mance that evening. When she that the painter has been secretly >un The date is June 17, 1800, and the recognizes the face of the Magdalene meeting the Marchesa in the church. lun setting is Rome, which at the time as that of the Marchesa Attavanti, She departs in a rage to find was a Papal State under the political T osca flies into a jealous rage; but Cavaradossi, and Scarpia orders his control of the Catholic Church. The Cavaradossi succeeds in reassuring agents to follow. As choristers sing French Army of Napoleon her of his love. Pausing to suggest the Te Deum, Scarpia describes his Bonaparte is pressing south into Ita thai he make the eyes in the portrait lust for Tosca and admits that he In ly, supported by many people in dark like hers, instead of blue, Tosca would renounce heaven to satisfy his n Rome hoping for an overthrow of the departs. desires. authoritarian papal government and a restoration of the Roman Republic. Alone with Angelotti, Cavaradossi ACT TWO takes place in Scarpia's gives the fugitive a key to his villa and apartment on an upper floor of the ACT ONE is set in the Church of tells him to hide in a secret chamber Farnese Palace that night. Music San!' Andrea della Valle. Angelotti, that can be reached only through a drifts up from the Queen's victory a prominent opponent of the Papal well in the garden. When a distant reception on a lower floor as Scarpia State who h~ just escaped from im cannon sounds to warn of Angelotti's sends an agent to bring T osca to him prisonment in the Castel San!' escape, the two men flee . after she has sung below. Scarpia's Angelo, enters, finds a secret key agent, Spoletta, nervously reports and hides in his family's private Word has been received in Rome that he followed T osca from the project of that Napoleon's armies have been ,troitCom_ chapel. The church sacristan shuffles church to Cavaradossi's villa, and Elizabeth in, followed by the painter Mario· defeated by the Austrians at the thoroughly searched the house after Cavaradossi, who uncovers the pic Battle of Marengo, a serious blow to she left, but found no trace of ture of Mary Magdalene on which he the hopes of Italian republicans. Angelotti. He has, however, arrested is working. The shocked sacristan Choristers have gathered in the Cavaradossi, who is now brought realizes that the blond Magdalene is church to celebrate when Baron before the police chief. inspired by the Marchesa Attavanti Scarpia, Rome's Chief of Police, (Angelotti's sister), whom Cavara arrives with his agents. Having Scarpia interrogates the painter as dossi has seen praying in the family tortured a guard who helped Tosca's voice is heard in the back chapel. ButCavaradossi, taking out Angelotti escape, he has followed ground, singing the victory cantata. a miniature portrait of his beloved the prisoner's trail to the church. Cavaradossi insists he knows Floria Tosca, explains that the por nothing; when Tosca arrives in trait is actually a "strange harmony" After interrogating the sacristan, the response to Scarpia's note, he also of the blond Marchesa and the dark chief's agents find in the private warns her to be silent before he is Tosca. chapel a fan which Scarpia taken into an adjoining room to be recognizes from the family crest as tortured. After the sacristan leaves, Angelotti belonging to. the fugitive's sister, the comes out of hiding, recognizes Marchesa Attavanti. Recognizing her Tosca resists Scarpia's questioning at Cavaradossi as a political sym in Cavaradossi's painting, and fin first, but after repeatedly hearing her pathizer, . and enlists the painter's ding the empty lunch basket, Scarpia lover screaming in pain from the tor help. When they hear a voice out concludes that the painter is collabor ture chamber, she breaks down and side, Cavaradossi gives the starving ating in Angelotti's escape. reveals Angelotti's hiding place. As continued on page 24

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 23 Cavaradossi is returned to the room, Cavaradossi to leave Rome. As Scar will have to go through. With mount berating Tosca for her weakness, pia exultantly comes to embrace her, ing joy the two lovers plan their Spoletta brings word that the earlier Tosca stabs him with a fruit knife , future happiness as the firing squad reports of Napoleon's defeat were watches him die, takes the pass from take up positions and T osca jokingly erroneous; the French general was in his hand and steals out of the room. warns Cavaradossi to "act the part." fact victorious. Enraged, Scarpia ACT THREE opens on a terrace of The soldiers fire and leave; when the orders his agents to take Cavaradossi the Castel Sant' Angelo later the last of them is gone, Tosca tells out to the courtyard and hang him. same night, as a shepherd boy sings Cavaradossi to get up, and discovers in the distance. Cavaradossi, told that he is dead. Scarpia had secretly Alone with Tosca, Scarpia offers to that he has but one hour to live, ordered the final deception before his save Cavaradossi's life in exchange bribes his jailer for pen and paper to own death, and the sound of ap for her sexual favors. At first appalled write T osca as he remembers the proaching voices warns T osca that and resistant, Tosca finally consents. , happiness they have shared. When the murder of the police chief has Scarpia orders Spoletta to carry out a Tosca is brought to him, she tells been discovered. Crying "Scarpia, fake execution with a firing squad Cavaradossi about Scarpia's death, we'll meet before God," she jumps and blank bullets, and writes out a shows him the safe conduct pass, from the parapet to her death. safe conduct pass f~r T osca and and describes the mock execution he -RET

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 25 Puccini was the second composer to While one can only surmise what a express an interest, in correspon Franchetti Tosca or a Verdi Tosca TOSCA dence with his publisher Ricordi. He might have been, it is certain that became sidetracked, however, first Puccini gave the Sardou play a with Manon Lescaut and then with degree of immortality it would never It seems ironically fitting that Tosca La Boheme, and the possibilities of have achieved on its own. For all his - an opera deeply involved with Tosca seemed to fade from his ,popularity in his own time, Sardou intrigue and treachery - was itself thoughts. has been largely relegated to the born out of a notably unethical theatrical historic archives, his works deception. The original play by The possibilities stayed very much known to students but seldom per Victorien Sardou was clearly fated alive, however, in the thoughts of the formed. Except for Tasca, transform for the operatic stage from the mo publisher Ricordi, who commission ed by Puccini's genius into one of the ment of its Paris premiere in 1887, ed Luigi lilica to prepare a libretto most perennially popular works ever but it was only through an unusual from the Sardou script. Ricordi also created. Sardou himself recognized amount of scheming and outright commissioned another of his the improvement and - ,in an ad trickery that Puccini was able to "house" composers, Alberto Fran mission probably unprecedented in undertake the project. chetti, to begin work on the score. the history of opera - stated that the opera libretto was superior to the Sardou wrote Tosca for the great At this point Puccini, spurred by the original play. Sarah Bernhardt, at a time when threat of losing his chance at the both actress and playwright were at property, informed Ri~ordi that he Completed in September, 1899, the height of their respective careers. had decided to compose a Tosca, Tosca received its world premiere at Sardou was the most popular drama putting the publisher in a most the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on tist in France, famed for the highly awkward position. He had already January 14, 1900. Like MOT's other theatrical suspense and sadistic cruel promised the project to Franchetti, popular opera this season, Carmen, ty of his plots, in which characters and, indeed, contracts had been Tosca was not an immediate success; were constantly being promised signed. On the other hand, Puccini critics were, in fact, merciless in their happy endings only to be struck was Ricordi's hottest property, with scorn for Puccini's newest work. down by carefully crafted traps and an impressive string of successes to Within six months, however, it was deceptions. Bernhardt was, of his credit. His Tosca would be being sung in opera houses from course, the toast of Europe - famed guaranteed a large audience even Covent Garden in London to Teatro not only for the intensity of 'her per before its first performance. For the Colon in Buenos Aires. Its Metro formances but for the. mercurial same reasons IlJica, the librettist, was politan premiere, with Milka Ternina speed with which she could change understandably excited about being as Tosca and Antonia Scotti as Scar from one to another of an endless associated with Puccini on the pia, occurred on February 4, 1901. variety of emotions and moods. project. Clearly Floria Tosca's rapid shifts Michigan Opera Theatre has pre through jealously, passion, fury and The three men therefore entered into sented one previous production of despair were created with an elaborate conspiracy to convince Tosca, in the fall of 1972. Phyllis Bernhardt's gifts in mind. Franchetti that Tosca was totally Curtin, Charles Hindsley and Ronald unsuitable ,as the basis for an opera. Holgate were Tosca, Caravardossi Three Italian composers were drawn It was, they said, too violent, too and Scarpia, respectively, with Bren to the operatic possibilities of Tosca negative and too shocking to find da Sinka and Michael IIngham sing immediately after its successful favor with either audiences or ing Tosca and Scarpia for the premiere. The first was Giuseppe government and church censors. matinee, Verdi, who cited fatigue and advanc Persuaded by their pessimism, Fran -RET ing years as reasons for pleading off chetti requested and was granted a the project, turning his attention cancellation of his contract, clearing MOT PUB CRAWL instead to Fa/staff. the way for Puccini to set to work. October 22

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MOT PUB CRAWL October 22 Continued o n page 102 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 31 Mla-rrGAN libretto 7 Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, r~ from the Merimee novel conductor - Dr. David DiChiera, General Director Mark D. Flint

director Patrick Bakman presents English version Sheldon Harnick

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51 TI pre ne' sigl THE CAST by for Carmen . .. . Victoria Vergara - October 16, 18, 24 WE Cynthia Munzer - October 17; 21 , 23 no tro Don Jose .. . . Barry Busse - October 16, 18, 24 in Michael BaHam - October 17, 21, 23 m<

Micaela . ... Glenda Kirkland

Escamillo . ... Louie Otey Us Yc Morales .... Michael Kohler" or Sc Frasquita ... . Diane Jamison" ot SE Mercedes ... . Kathleen Segar" F Dancairo ... . Richard Cowan"

Remendado . . . . Peter Clegg"

Zuniga . . . . Rob Ferrier" In English: October 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, & Lillas Pastia . .. . Roland Aragona 24, 1981 "Member, MOT Artist Intern Program

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 37 When I go to the theater, I want to ience that comes to see musical understand what's happening from theater, and Boheme was no excep Opera in moment to moment. New works tion . The translation was first rate, aside, I find it encouraging that opera and the audience's reaction was a companies in increasing numbers are revelation. Not only were they deep English producing the standard repertoire in ly moved by the poignant scenes; English translation. After all, operas they laughed aloud at the comedy by Sheldon Harnlck that have held the stage generation scenes! How gratifying! I was so used after generation are by and large to audiences sitting in attentive Not long after Fiddler on the Roof operas that are good theater, not just silence at Boheme that I had forgot opened on Broadway, the young opportunities for vocal display. The ten how amusing some of the scenes performer then playing the role of composers and the librettists of those can be when one knows what's being Hodel, Julia Migenes, was given a operas worked hard at their craft, at said! short leave of absence to play the title tempting to construct stage works in role in Menotti's The Saint of which the musical and dramatic I'm reminded of a concert perfor Bleecker Street at the New York City elements reinforced each other. mance I saw one summer of Rossini's Opera. At that time in my life, Cinderella, also in English, at which because of a few baffling experiences When I see an opera in English, I the audience responded as though with opera, I was convinced that it don't expect to understand every they were seeing one of the world's was too deep, too intellectual, too word. (Words in any language tend great musical comedies (as indeed incomprehensible, a form for me to to become indistinguishable in the they were). I was so taken with it that enjoy. But since Julia (whose ulti upper register of the female voice.) I couldn't wait to see it in a fully stag mate goal was to be an opera singer) But I do expect to be able to under ed version. As it happens, the New was a friend, I went to see her out of stand at least 80 to 90 percent of the York City Opera produced it that fall. 81. both friendship and curiosity. This text. That's about the percentage of It was an elegant production, but it particular opera was in English, was text that audiences are able to grasp was in Italian . Hesult: Again I saw the expertly directed by Menotti himself, at the current succ€ssful revival of phenomenon of what should have and was cast with young performers The Pirates of Penzance, and so far been appreCiative laughter converted who were convincing as actors and as I call tell, they're satisfied. into respectful silence. Oh, there intelligible as singers. Not only was were some laughs - at an exag I. Julia superb in the role, but I came gerated stage makeup or an out away with a new and excited ap During arguments about opera in rageous piece of stage business. Oh, preciation of opera. Opera was - English, an as yet unconverted yes, and there was a laugh when surprise! - nothing more nor less adversary will invariably bring up La someone did a pratfall. But where than myoid friend musical theater. Boheme. The argument goes some was the laughter that should natural II. thing like this: "You have to admit ly have arisen from the libretto? Subsequently, I began to familiarize that plots in operas such as Boheme myself with the operatic literature are so simple, so transparent, there's Too many opera conductors blithely through both phonograph records no need to know what's being said. overwhelm the singers they are sup and live performances. In time this The music says it all. What more do posed to be supporting. Perhaps III led to my writing several opera libret you want?" I used to find this argu when singers are Singing in a tos (with composer Jack Beeson) ment half-convincing, and grumpily I language the audience doesn't and translating others. (In passing, I would concede the possibility that it understand, conductors tend to IV tip my hat to those adventurous might be true. assume that it really doesn't make opera companies around the country any difference. But I look forward to willing imd even eager to mount new Then I saw Boheme at the Lyric the day when audiences are so American works.) Along the way I Opera of Kansas City, in Missouri. accustomed to hearing words that became aware of and concerned From its inception, this company has producers will be deluged with com V. with certain forces that either pro had a policy of opera in English. plaints when conductors are self moted or retarded the realization of Over the years it has built an aud- indulgent. opera as theater.

For example, opera in English. I suspect that many audiences have never seriously asked themselves why they are being offered operas in foreign languages. They seem re Sail~ cJ!ice signed to the fact that they will PRODUCTIONS, INC. understand the dramatic aspect of those operas only in broad outline. MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT Audiences such as these seem condi tioned to tolerate a fair amount of MERCHANDISING AND SALES PROGRAMS boredom while they wait for the familiar arias to crop up. I grow im 427-9300 patient with audiences that settle for less than a full theatrical experience. 11845 MAYFIELD (I am not referring, needless to say, LIVONIA, MICHIGAN 48150 to audiences that go to the opera to see highly publicized stars.) 38 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre lsical There are old-school vocal coaches opera houses. Somehow, as soon as (cep who are interested primarily in tone this type of critic learns that someone rate , production, with clarity of diction has worked on Broadway (in what 'as a running a poor second. As a conse ever capacity), he loses the ability to leep quence, too many opera singers judge that person's work objectively. mes; have not been trained to enunciate Case in point: A New York Times rtedy clearly and in many cases are not critic recently reviewed the Houston used even aware of the importance of Grand Opera's production of Carlisle 1tive enunciation! In one of the operas Floyd's Willie Stark. I don't recall his rgot Jack Beeson and I wrote, I was ap exact words, but the essence of his enes palled by the diction of a singer (who complaint was that Harold Prince's eing shall be nameless). Jack told the direction suffered from Broadway singer he was unintelligible. His slickness. I happened to see Willie answer floored me: "But if I sing the Stark in Houston. What bewilders rfor way you want me to, I'll ruin my me is that in this instance "Broadway ;ini's legato." At our suggestion (his job slickness" can mean only (1) impres hich was at stake), his diction improved sive sets so conceived as to flow from ugh rapidly, and I sincerely doubt that his one scene to another with cinematic rid's legato was ruined in the process. fluidity (no awkward stage waits) ; (2) acting performances of an admirable eed Happily, more and more young level of authority, believability, and that Francesco Oi Blasi opera singers (not to mention con style (no cigar-store Indian star tag ductors and directors) come from a Conductor turns); (3) theatrical inventiveness ~ew background that includes experience and excitement. fall . SIX SUNDAYS AT THREE O'CLOCK in Broadway musicals or operettas. It it These singers are accustomed to Criticism of this sort saddens me the Tickets $5.00 audiences who expect to understand because it may discourage opera ave Students $2.50 the words. any many of these Singers Senior Citizens $2.50 producers from inviting theater peo ted are bringing to the opera stage a level ple (those from Broadway as well as .ere of acting ability heretofore all too I. An Evening On Broadway other theatrical arenas) to make the .ag rare. (When the Messiah comes, alI Singers - Dancers - Staged crossover into the field of opera. And lUt opera Singers will study acting with at )h, Oct. 3 (Sat.) 8:00 p.m. I belive that many of those who have Oct. 4 (Sun.) 3:00 p.m. least some of the devotion they made the crossover have alrea<;:ly len Harrison High School lavish on vocal production.) ere (12 Mi. west of Middlebelt) proved beneficial and can be even ral- There is one irritant that I find not more beneficial in shaping produc II. Maria Meirelles, Pianist only exasperating but bewildering: tions of a freshness and vitality that Brahms Concerto No. 1 Nov. 15 (Sun.) 3:00 p.m. the critic who blindly assumes that will win even larger audiences for ely Groves High School what we do on Broadway is neces that extraordinary form of musical lP (13 Mi. at Evergreen) sarily inferior to what happens in theater that opera can be. IpS III. Harbinger Dance Company a Jan. 24 (Sun.) 3:00 p.m. Sheldon Harnlck Is one of America's foremost lyricists (Fiddler on the n't Harrison High School Roof) and the author of the "Carmen" translation MOT Is using this to IV. Young Artist Winners season. Ike Prizes totaling $3,000 to (For info., call 476-6544 so Feb. 14 (Sun.) 3:00 p.m. lat Madonna College, Livonia Sophisticated Simplicity 11- V. Gordon Staples, Violinist !If- Tchaikovsky Concerto Mar. 14 (Sunday) 3:00 Southfield-Lathrup H.S. (12 Mi. west of Southfield) VI. Opera - Carmen Cast to be announced May 16 (Sun.) 3:00 p.m. Harrison High School Ninth Annual Cabaret Concert Sonny Eliot narrating Peter and the Commissar Apr. 3 (Sat.) 8:00 p.m. • Madonna College, Livonia nino Tickets $6 HAIRDRESSERS

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Overture to Opera

Michigan Opera Theatre has recycled its original name! In the years before finding a home at the Music Hall, it was as Overture to Opera that the company grew from a small group of singers performing opera scenes to a full-fledged company mounting major productions. Today the same name - Overture to Opera - has been adopted to describe MOT's talented and versatile touring company of professional singers, musicians and technicians, offering a wide range of programs - in English - perfect for groups of all types: schools, clubs, malls, social centers, churches and private parties.

The repertoire includes six different programs, ranging from simple concerts to fully staged and costumed one-act productions, with something for every audience and every age group - from preschool to senior citizen! Joel Dulyea sings to Cherianne Roeglin at Mt . Clemens Hospital.

For bookings and information, phone MOT at 963-3717.

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FAIR MEANS OR FOUL: Karen DIChiera and friends.Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera TheatreKim Minasian & Jerry Minster 41 Michigan Opera Theatre - The First Decade 1971·72 1976·77 JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING WASHINGTON SQUARE TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Pasatieri Webber and Rice MADAME BUTTERFLY LA RONDINE Puccini Puccini NAUGHTY MARIETTA THE PERFECT FOOL Herbert Holst THE MAGIC FLUTE Mozart 1977·78 1972·73 REGINA COSI FAN TUTTE Blitzstein Mozart CARMEN TOSCA Bizet Puccini THE STUDENT PRINCE THE TELEPHONE and Romberg THE MEDIUM FAUST Menotti Gounod AMAHL AND THE Dauid Hall-Sandquist with Nancy Shade NIGHT VISITORS "La Rondine, " 1971 Menottl 1973.;74 RIGOLETTO 1978·79 Verdi THE PEARL FISHERS MADAME BUTTERFLY Bizet Puccini SHOW BOAT MERRY WIDOW Kern Lehar LA TRAVIATA Verdi I PAGLIACCI Leoncauallo 1974·75 THE EMPEROR JONES Gruenberg LA TRAVIATA Verdi BORIS GODUNOV 1979 Mussorgsky THE MOST HAPPY FELLA THE ELIXIR OF LOVE Loesser Donizetti IL TROVATORE DIE FLED ERMA US Verdi Strauss LA BOHEME Puccini Neil Shlco/f and Catherine Mal/ilano in "Lucia di Lammermoor," 1975-76 JOAN OF ARC Tchalkousky 197'5·76 PORGY AND BESS Gershwin 1980 LA BOHEME DIE FLEDERMAUS Puccini Strauss LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR OF MICE AND MEN Donizetti Floyd THE BARBER OF SEVILLE DON GIOVANNI Rossini Mozart RIGOLETTO Verdi

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Sponsored for the 24th consecutive year by the Detroit Grand Opera Association. FOR TICKET INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL 832-5200. 48 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre libretto Armen Tigranian from the poem by Hovaness Toumanian

conductor Raffi Armenian Dr. David DiChiera, peneral Director presents director & translator Gerald Papasian

choreographer The American Premiere Hagop Chamourian of sets Franco Colavecchia

ARMEN TIGRANIAN'S costumes Marjorie Cowan

/ighting Marilyn Rennagel

ANOUS wigs & make· up Steven Horak Opera in Three Acts

THE CAST

Anoush . ... Ellen Kerrigan Diane Barclay

Saro . . .. Evan Bortnick Vincenzo Manno

E. Mossy . ... Andreas Poulimenos

Anoush's Mother .. . . Karen Guettler

Sara's Mother . ... Maro Partamian

Village Elder . . .. Rob Ferrier"

Ohan . . .. Richard Cowan"

Village Watchman .. .. Douglas Wayland"

First Girl ... . Kim Minasian

Second Girl .... Lee Starr"

Third Girl .. .. Gong Ja Cho"

In English: Fourth Girl .... Sarah Johannsen" October 30,31, November 1,4,6, 7, 1981 Gypsy ... . Kathleen Segar" • Member, MOT Artist Intern Program Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 49 AI' Anoush mountain rooted in who inha land. The youn mother a opera op' is feelin~ scarcely tance can the youn ~ best frien of Anous As Anou her to go boy, Sal serenade Anoush, heartach feels, fOI ing to d take the hill to th maidens At the f( River D,

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50 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre young girls sing a song to the river, general merriment, Saro and Mossy asking if it passed their future loves in agree to .entertain the guests with a ANOUSH its wanderings through the moun wrestling match. Saro, however, tains. They fill their water jugs and caught up in the excitement of the Anoush is set in the Armenian then sit by the fountain happily sing match and showing off to his beloved mountain village of Lori, and is ing rhymed couplets about sad and Anoush, forgets the traditional rules rooted in the traditions of the people unrequited love. The worried voice and defeats Mossy, thus humiliating who inhabit that harsh and beautiful of Anoush's mother sounds a him in front of the entire village. land. counterpoint, calling her daughter to Enraged, Mossy vows revenge as his The young girl Anoush lives with her come home. terrified sister looks on helplessly. mother and brother, Mossy. As the Anoush's premonitions of misfortune opera opens it is spring, and Anoush In Act Three Mossy angrily refuses to are intensified at the village festival forgive Saro, and begins his revenge is feeling a restless longing she celebrating Ascension Day. The scarcely understands. From a dis by setting fire to Saro'shaystack. villagers dance and sing, and then Simultaneously, however, Saro and tance can be heard the voice of Saro, undertake traditional wrestling the young shepherd who is Mossy's Anoush, realizing that they will never matches all of which, according to be allowed to marry and will, in fact, best friend, singing about the beauty strict custom, must end in draws so of Anoush. be forbidden to see each other, run that no one is humiliated by losing in off together into the mountains. front of his friends . The villagers As Anoush's worried mother orders want Saro and Mossy to wrestle, but her to go inside and ignore the young Some months later, Anoush goes in boy, Saro appears to continue his Mossy declines. to the village hoping to effect a serenade in person. When he leaves, After the men have left, the young reconciliation while Saro, knowing Anoush describes to her mother the girls begin their traditional holiday that Mossy is still seeking to kill him, heartache and sadness she of tens fortune-telling . Anoush's fortune in waits in the hills above the village . feels, for no apparent reason. Hop dicates that her lover will die, shot Mossy finds Saro and kills him with a ing to cheer herself, she decides to through the heart; despite the other bullet through the heart, confirming take the empty water jugs down the maidens' efforts to calm her, she ex the prophecy of Act One. When his hill to the spring, where the village claims that a curse laid on her as a body Is discovered, Anoush goes maidens are gathering. child has been confirmed. mad with grief and flings herself to her death from a high cliff. At the fountain by the banks of the Act Two opens as the Village gathers River Debet, Anoush arrives as the for a wedding. Carried away by the -RET

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 51 MOT Auxiliary Chorus Melanie Al Shabkhoun Pat Balysh Gregory Bryant Christian Caubet Charles Furchak Donald Gallop Lynn Howard Thomas Howard Lynn Kasch Robert Kinnear Elizabeth Mar-Aston Satning Margaret Vincent McCormick Kim Minasian Richard Mox Kim Phillips Ray Roberts Diane Rowlands Pat Smith Susan Stine Robert Sullivan Sue Wiley Hezekiah Williams

MOT Artist Interns Gong ~a Cho Peter Clegg Richard Cowan Robert Ferrier Diane Jamison Sarah Johannsen Eric Johnson Michael Kohler Dennis Leach Bryan Post Kathleen Segar Lee Starr Douglas O. Wayland Melanie Zoghby

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----_._-- music. When Tigranian began to generation has every opportunity to compose Anoush in 1908, he was use Toumanian's works, to study them. and to create new works and new ANOUSH on his way to creating an enduringly talents for our homeland. popular national opera rooted in by Dr. David DIChiera both sources. He had received his What Tigranian modestly did not say formal training at the conservatory in was that the popularity of his opera Any American music lover has the Tbilisi, where he ~udied the theory stems in great part from the lyrical opportunity to hear the major works of composition unoer Nikolay Sem and dramatic qualities of his own of the western European operatic yonovich Klenovsky, who had him music. Combining the forms of repertoire on recordings; those fortu self studied under Tchaikovsky. After western opera with the melodic and nate enough to live in or travel to a graduating in 1901, Tigranian began modal traditions of Armenian music, city with a thriving cultural life may a career as a choral director and and making skillful use of his back also be able to see them performed. teacher. The inspiration for Anoush ground in choral directing, he gave But there are equally musical, dra and the circumstances of its first per the world a unique masterpiece. matic, and passionate works that, by formance are described in a memoir accident of language or national Tigranian wrote in 1948. In preparing our English-language origin, stand outside the mainstream Anoush, I have made some large of Italian, French, and German I read Hovhannes Toumanian's Ipoem] scale changes in the original with the opera. It is possible that only a dedi "Anoush" for the first time in 1907, intention of making it more readily and from that time on the great poet cated opera buff knows their names, became dear to me. I decided to write understandable to modern American and chances are that he or she has the opera Anoush. I corresponded with audiences. The central dramatic never actually heard them. The per th~ poet until I finally met him person· situation - the story of lovers who formance of any generally unfamiliar ally in 1913. in 1912 we had perform· are trapped and destroyed by the ed· the opera ... with iocal talent In conflicting demands of rigid social opera therefore is a noteworthy Alexandropol [present· day event. If the opera in question is also Lenlnakan] . . .. The performance codes and their own passions - is a fine representative of a distinctive brought about great interest ... which immediately affecting to any group. culture and its traditions, the pro was understandable, since the poem On the other hand, it must seem duction is doubly significant. . .. enjoyed such great popularity. I felt somewhat strange to a contemporary the artistic success of the great poet, and that day became a holiday for me. American audience that the lovers I feel particularly privileged to have ... almost all of Hovannes Touoma must die because a young man for been involved in bringing the first nian's works can be put to music, got the rules of a wrestling match. English-language production of because they are so inspiring and Furthermore, while Tigranian could sonorous. . .. in 1933, fifteen years Anoush, the most important work of ago, the great poet's lyre became silent, the Armenian composer Armen but his writings remain. Today our new Continued on page 110 Tigranian, to the American stage. For a long time I have believed that Detroit, given its generous mixture of nationalities and an enthusiastic musical community, is a naturalloca tion for the Michigan Opera Theatre to mount a series of major national istic operas. The very nature of opera enables the audience to experience a panorama of the cultural elements that distinguish one nationality from ~ aJad tmd ~ Jtra.a&:& another. Anoush proVides a stimulat rtJouId~ ab fk,~ ing and moving introduction to the dances, music, visual arts, literature, kui toasb fk,~ dem-- and customs that constitute the .!700d ~~ wea/d tmd ~ cfzeu.- Armenian heritage. In this way Anoush bridges the gap between the J/otb ny.fru/w£ hk 0fU< moM culture of the Armenian homeland and the musical and cultural conven ~~A&Jv-we-ro~dd tions better known to most American .:h ~ ~ ali &/u:d wid fU't, audiences. Ub noI&.ramd near- CUl.I/'ai ~ Armen Tigranian himself was con scious of his role as a continuator and Ubro ~.rorty 6«b IZOb t.ht&~ a conservator of music and customs. ~ ~ .. . Jo-.rortyny dem--... As a professional composer, he knew that the foundations of his craft rtJi/l1ZOb oJen' tHl/ ~ ~ were laid both in Armenian folk song 9i&- com.nzitmulL, tmd ~ to- mak tv ~ and in the various genres of Euro pean art music. By the last quarter of .!7iu& a& fk, tUne, fk, ~ tmd ~ the nineteenth century, Armenian gQ. ~ O«b fk,~ composers had written an impressive variety o·f European-influenced works and had done a great deal to collect and preserve native folk Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 55 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Dedication 1981-82 This historic production of Armen Tigranian's Anoush - the first professional performances outside the Soviet Union and the first time Dance Anoush has ever been performed in English - owes its very ex istence to the dedication of a remarkable woman - Alice Season Berberian Haidostlan. RAJKO For Mrs, Haidostian, Anoush represents the fulfillment of two long HUNGARIAN GYPSY held dreams: to see this great Armenian musical masterpiece per ORCHESTRA & DANCERS November 9 only formed professionally in a way that would anow it to reach non Armenian audiences, and to provide a fitting tribute to her parents, ATlANTA BAlLET Siroun and Harry Berberian, In the decade since her mother's death with orc hestra November 1(H5 in 1971, she considered a number of possible projects before deciding that the Berberians - whose own pride in Armenian PARTHENON DANCERS culture and love of music were inherited by both Alice and her OF GREECE November 16 only brother Ara Berberian - would be most appropriately honored with a production of Anoush designed to make the unique beauty of this PILOBOLUS Armenian masterpiece accessible to people throughout the world, December 2·6 JOSE LIMON DANCE Personally assuming the responsibility to raise $40,000 toward the COMPANY extraordinary costs of this premiere production, Alice Haidostian February 17·21 worked tirelessly for many months to successfuny realize the commit ment within the Armenian community. She did not work alone, Many, many people within that community became excited by the project and supported it in many ways, But it must be said that without Alice Haidostian, inspired by Siroun and Harry Berberian's pride and love, this landmark production in the history of opera might never have happened.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 66 Barber of Seville and a highly acclaimed production of Berg's Wozzeck. He has been guest con ductor with the orchestras of Ottawa, Calgary, Regina and Hamilton; and under his direction the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony has toured extensively throughout Canada, Western Europe and the Soviet Donnie Ray Albert Michael Ballam Union. Dr. David DiChiera, General Director PATRICK BAKMAN, stage direc tor for MOT's production of Carmen this season, began his professional career in 1972 by staging Carlisle Floyd's Susannah for the New York City Opera; he has since directed The Magic Flute and The Ballad of Baby Doe for the same company, Diane Barclay Patrick Bakman with the latter production also featured on a nationwide telecast. DONNIE RAY ALBERT has achieved worldwide acclaim as A former resident stage director for Porgy, the role in which he appears the University of Michigan, Mr. with Michigan Opera Theatre this Bakman's recent opera credits in season. He has starred in Porgy and clude La Boheme and Starbird for Bess for the Houston Grand Opera Texas Opera Theatre; Faust, - including a Broadway engage Pasatieri's The Goose Girl and ment, European tour and subse Barab's Chanticleer for the Fort quent cast recording - and with the Worth Opera, and Lucia di Connecticut Opera, among others. Lammermoor for the San Diego His roles with New York City Opera Opera. He has also worked exten have included Basilio in II Barbiere di sively for the Houston Grand Opera, Siviglia, Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare Colorado Opera Festival and Lake and Jake Wallace in La Fanciulla del George Opera Festival. West. The bass-baritone has also sung with Chicago Lyric Opera, the MICHAEL BALLAM , making his Fort Worth Opera and the Boston Michigan Opera Theatre debut this Concert Opera, among others. season as Don Jose in three perform ances of Carmen, can already claim Mr. Albert's concert career has two world premieres in his young included appearances with the New career: Paradise Lost with the York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chicago Lyric Opera - in which he Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony sang Beelzebub - and Danton and and the Jerusalem Symphony. His Robespierre for his alma mater, schedule for the 1981-82 season in Indiana University. Other roles with cludes La Cenerentola in Van the Chicago LyriC Opera have couver, Fidelio with the Dallas Sym included Harry in La Fanciulla del phony and I Puritani with the Boston West and Schmidt in Werther. Concert Opera. With the San Francisco Opera, Mr. RAFFI ARMENIAN , who is Ballam has appeared in La Fanciulla, conducting MOT's premiere produc Elektra and Roberto Devereux. He tion of Anoush, has been musical has also sung with the Providence director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Opera, Pennyslvania Opera Theatre Symphony for the past ten years. A and West Virginia Opera Theatre, graduate of the Vienna Academy of among others. His concert repertoire Music and recipient of the top award has included Damnation of Faust, Le at the International Conductors Roi David, and masses by Schubert, Competition, he also served for four Haydn and Beethoven. seasons as music director of Canada's Stratford Festival. DIANE BARCLAY, singing the title role in three performances of Maestro Armenian made his debut Anoush, is making her Michigan with the Canadian Opera Company Opera Theatre debut in this in 1975 with Die Fledermaus; other American premiere production. She Profiles assignments with the COC have recently sang Juliet in Romeo and included The Marriage of Figaro , Juliet and Adina in The Elixir of Love CopyrightDon 2010,Giovanni, Michigan La Traviata,Opera Theatre The on the Western Opera Theatre's 67 1981 to ur , which included several Von He ute Auf Morgan with the appearances in Michigan. Sante Fe Opera and both Tosca and Nabucco for the Greater Miami Miss Barclay has also sung Violetta in Opera. La Traviata and Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus with Western Opera Mr. Busse created the role of Theatre. With the Lake George Bo thwell in Thea Musgrave's opera Opera Festival she has appeared as Mary, Queen of Scots with the Kathie in The Student Prince. Zerlina Virginia Opera, and repeated it as in Don Giovanni and Valencienne in Evan Bortnick Barry Busse the vehicle for his New York City Th e Merry Widow . Concert Houston Grand Opera, Texas Opera Opera debut last season. Recent appearances have included Handel's Theatre, Glimmerglass Festival and concert appearances have included Dettingen Te Deum and Woollen's In Lyric Opera of Kansas City, among Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Martyrum Memoriam with the others. the Grand Rapids Symphony and Chicago Symphony, as well as the Verdi Requiem with the Portland Chicago's nationally televised Do-It Last season Mr. Bo rtnick's schedule Symphony. Yourself Messiah. She was the reCip included The Gypsy Baron at Glim ient of a recent grant from the Martha merglass, Elixir of Love and La Belle MARK CERVANIA, production Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. Helene in Kansas City and Don stage manager for Carmen, is in his Giovanni in Annapolis. His MOT third season with Michigan Opera EVAN BORTNICK, who will be debut this season will be followed by Theatre; last year he was production portraying Saro in three perform a Pirates of Penzance with the stage manager for Of Mice and Men ances of Anoush for MOT this Augusta Opera and Die Fledermaus and assisted on the other three pro season, made his profeSSional debut in Mobile . ductions as well. Since the n he has as Rodolfo in La Boheme with the been working with the Washington Hidden Valley Opera and the Lake BARRY BUSSE (Don Jose in three (DC) Opera as assistant director for George Opera Festival before joining performances of Carmen) made a L 'Amore Die Tre Re and Postcard the Minnesota Opera, where his highly successful MOT debut last from Morocco and with the Santa Fe roles included two world premieres: season as the childlike Lenny Small Opera Festival as assistant director the title role in Christoph e r in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men. for Strauss's Daphne and Columbus and Cherubino in Rosina. Subsequent appearances throughout Hindemith's News of the Day. 'A graduate of the Oberlin Conser the country have included Peter vatory, he has appeared with the Grimes with the Dallas Civic Opera, Mr. Cervania will return to Detroit for

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FRANCO COLAVECCHIA, set dress design designer for Anoush, will be remembered by MOT regulars as the Wllhelmlnla Mark Flint studio designer of Regina. in 1977. He Fernandez designed both sets and costumes for Pennsylvania Opera Festival. This the Houston Grand Opera produc summer, as Principal Conductor of tion of Treemonisha, including its the Lake George Opera Festival, he Broadway run; other credits with the conducted Carmen and a critically Houston company include The acclaimed production of The Abduc Vagabond King, Hansel and Gretel tion from the Seraglio. Last spring and the American premiere of Mr. Flint made his San Francisco Handel's Rinaldo. Opera debut conducting Romeo and Juliet, and also completed his first For the Opera Company of Phila season as Music Director with San delphia, Mr. Colavecchia has de Francisco Opera's Western Opera signed sets and costumes for Theatre, conducting The Elixir of Rumpelstiltskin, The Magic Flute and Loue and Romeo. The Cunning Little Vixen . As 1981-82 · Director of Design and Immediately following this MOT Production for the Philadelphia com season, Maestro Flint conducts the pany, he will be designing Puccini's II New York City premiere of George Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Antheil's Transatlantic with the Rossini's Mose and Mozart's The Encompass Theatre. Winter will find Marriage of Figaro. Other credits in him back in San Francisco conduct the Unites States Include work with ing The Marriage of Figaro and La the Folger Theatre, New England Boheme, which he will also stage. In Conservatory, Wolf Trap Opera, and early May he conducts Madame Pittsburgh Opera; he has also design Butterfly for the Dayton Civic Opera. ed for England's Duchess Theatre Later that month he will debut with and Oxford Playhouse, the Wexford the St. Louis Opera conducting their Opera Festival in Ireland, and opening production of The Elixir of Scotland's Edinburgh Festival. Loue. Next summer he will return to Lake George and Chautauqua, WILHELMENIA FERNANDEZ is where he will offer Blitzstein's appearing in her third consecutive Regina. Late summer will find him in Rochester for The Barber of Seuille Michigan Opera Theatre ~eason, this year singing Bess in Gershwin's and in Pittsburgh for The Crucible Porgy and Bess, a role In which she and The Rape of Lucretia. earned international acclaim through the Houstori Grand Opera produc tion on Broadway and on tour STEVEN HENRIKSON is making throughout Europe. Miss Fernandez his MOT debut this season as the made her MOT debut as Musetta in Sacristan in Tosca. He is, however, the 1979 La Boheme, and appeared well known in the area as the prin here last season as Donna Elvira in cipal voice teacher at the. University Don Giouanni. of Windsor and founder of the school's opera program. He for the A graduate of the Academy of Vocal appeared this summer as Bartolo in a Arts in Philadelphia, her professional production of The Barber of Seuille conducted by Neville Marriner for the ultimate opera debut was as Antonia in Tales • of Hoffman. She has twice sung the Meadow Brook Music Festival. title role in Aida with the Kansas City In Lyric Opera, and has also sung Musetta in Paris and with the custom wear Charlotte Opera, for whom she also appeared in the role of Bess earlier this year. MARK D. FLINT returns for his fifth birmingham season as Music Director of Michigan 645-5720 Opera Theatre following two perfor mances of Barber's Vanessa with the Steven Henrikson Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 71 Mr, Henrikson was a soloist in the work as a member of the Kenneth lighting for MOT's production of recent premiere of Antal Dorati's In Jewell Chorale, the Plymouth Sym Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men: he the Beginning, and has performed in phony and choirs of the Christ has just completed his third season Vancouver, Toronto and Kitchener Church Cranbrook and the Lutheran with PCPA in California , during Waterloo as well as over the CBC Church of the Redeemer, Birm which time he has designed more radio and television networks, Euro ingham, She is a member of the than twenty productions, pean appearances have included Oakland Community College voice Innsbruck, Vienna, the Bavarian faculty , Mr. Jared's recent lighting designs State Opera in Munich and the include Wings in Denver, Sea Marks Beyreuth Festival. in Rochester and the world premiere, E PEGGY IMBRIE (Production Stage in Las Vegas. of The Total Immer Manager) returns to Detroit for her EL sion of Madeline Favorini, He was MC third season with Michigan Opera resident designer for the Connecticut An Theatre, Her extensive opera credits Ballet Company; and designed lights Klj, include work with the New York City for the premieres of Terra Nova. The Frc Opera Theatre, Artpark. Detroit Bundle . Identity Crisis and Str Symphony Orchestra and the Lake Guesswork with the Yale Repertory lat. George Opera Festival, where she Theatre, During the past season he stage managed their 1981 season of Mc was assistant lighting designer for the Ro Carmen, Man of LaMancha and The Broadway productions of The Little Karen Guettler Robert Jared pal Abduction from the Seraglio, Foxes and Tintypes. among others, ces KAREN MUNN GUETTLER ant makes her Michigan Opera Theatre Among the productions she has staged managed are La Boheme. SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS mainstage debut as Anoush's A Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale. , and let them know you mother. A veteran of MOT's Over Sal Hansel and Gretel. Fidelio and a appreciate their support for ture to Opera Company, she por Kel national tour of The Barber of Seville Michigan Opera Theatrel trayed the Governess in a premiere Lu. production of Fair Means or Foul, by dircted by Lou Gallerio, Miss Imbrie will next join Opera/Omaha for their Th. the eminent creator of children's Da opera Seymour Barab, She has also spring season of Carmen and The Magic Flute, MOT diti ~ung with the Michigan Lyric Opera sor and the Grand Circus Exchange, PUB CRAWL the ROBERT JARED, lighting designer erE Ms, Guettler has done extensive solo for Carmen, last year created the October 22 Qu

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72 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1 of GLENDA KIRKLAND, Micaela in of two Strauss operas, Elektra and 1; he this season's production of Carmen, The Egyptian Helen, and is heard on lson last appeared with MOT as Leila in the orchestra's London recording of Iring another Bizet opera, The Pearl the latter work. nore Fishers, for the 1980 Matrix: Midland summer festival. A frequent soloist Miss Kirkland's other operatic credits with the Detroit Symphony include University of Michigan ;igns Orchestra under Antal Dorati, she productions of Porgy and Bess, Don arks was featured in the DSO productions Giovanni and Madame Butterfly. ere, Ellen Kerrigan Glenda Kirkland She was recently a soloist with the ner ELLEN KERRIGAN, making her University of Michigan Musical was MOT debut in the title role of SOciety and Symphony in Handel's licut Anoush, began her career in 1979 as Judas Maccabaeus. Currently Assis ghts Klytemnestra's trainbearer in a San tant Professor of Voice at Eastern The Francisco Opera production of Michigan University, she was 3nd Strauss's Elektra; just one month educated at Juilliard and the Univer tory later, she replaced an ailing sity of Michigan, where she is pursu I he MonserratCaballe as Elisabetta in ing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. the Roberto Devereux for the same com .ittle pany and scored an enormous suc ~rs . cess with San Francisco audiences and critics.

~S A 1978 Grand Finals winner in the San Francisco Opera auditions, Miss Kerrigan has sung the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina in Outstanding private The Magic Flute, Marie in The and group instruction Vlncenzo Manno Daughter of the Regiment arid Per in all areas of VINCENZO MANNO, making his dita in the world premiere of Harbi music and dance. MOT debut this season as Saro in son's Winter's Tale. Recital credits for 200 E. KIRBY Anoush, is a Cleveland-born tenor the young soprano include Haydn's DETROIT, MI 48202 who began his professional career In Creation and Purcell's The Fairy For information call 831-2870 Queen. ElJrope after receiving a Fullbright

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 73 Fellowship to study at the renowned CYNTHIA MUNZER, singing three debut opposite Monserra't Caballe in Institute of Saint Cecilia in Rome. A performances for MOT this season in Norma for the Nice Opera; last former member of La Scala Opera the title role of Carmen, launched season he sang the same role for the training program, he was engaged her operatic career by winning the Canadian Opera Company with for four years by the Italian-Swiss coveted contract at the conclusion of Dame Joan Sutherland. radio and television ; during that time the 1973 Metropolitan Opera audi he also appeared with the Opera tions. In addition to singing over Mr. Ortiz made his American debut Comique in Paris, international twelve roles in her first two Met in 1973 in Cavalleria Rusticana with festivals in Dubrovnik, Bologna and seasons in New York, she was also the New York City Opera. His Como, and recitals throughout selected for the company's first tour 1981-82 schedule includes the Europe. of Japan and has appeared in the an leading tenor roles in II Trovatore, nual spring tour as well. She has Turandot, and La Forza del Destino Mr. Manno is now establishing an sung Zerlina in Don Giovanni with in Spain, France and Columbia; he outstanding reputation in the United tbe Opera Company of Philadelphia, will also repeat his portrayal of States through appearances as Carlo Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier for Cavaradossi in Tosca for the opera in Verdi's Giovanna D'Arco for the the Fort Worth Opera Company, season in Bogota. Noted as well for Boston Opera, Titus in La Clemenza and. Maddalena in Rigoletto with the his oratorio and recital engagements, di Tito for San Francisco Spring Dallas Civic Opera, among others. Mr. Ortiz has also completed several Opera and concert appearances in Miss Munzer appeared last spring as recordings of Spanish songs. Toronto singing Beethoven's Ninth Carmen with the Minnesota Opera, Symphony and Verdi's Requiem. causing the prestigious Opera News to praise her "wit, vigor, passion and bravado." Her concert and recital credits include appearances with the Philadelphia Symphony, the National Symphony and the American Symphony.

Curt Ostermann FRANCISCO ORTIZ will be re membered by MOT audiences as CURT OSTERMANN returns to MOT to design the lighting for Tosca . Cy'nthl& Munzer Francisco Ortiz Manrico in II Trovatore (opposite Martina Arroyo) in 1979. A native of after performing the same function in Spain, he made his profeSSional last season's Rigoletto. Since then he

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She has been the Marietta; she has also worked locally lighting designer for Frank Egan's with the Detroit Symphony, Windsor Marilyn Rennagel Nancy Shade Oldsmobile Announcement Show Symphony, Toledo Symphony and MARILYN RENNAGEL,' designing for three years. the Detroit Schola Cantorum. the lighting for Anoush and Mikado Miss Partamian was recently acclaim as well as serving as Lighting Consul NANCY SHADE, singing the title ed as Ulrica in the American Opera tant for the overall season , will be role in the Italian performances of Center's production of A Masked remembered by MOT patrons for her Tosca, first appeared with Michigan Ball. She has appeared in concert at work on Don Giovanni, Joan of Arc, Opera Theatre during its first Music Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall and II Trovatore. In Miami she Hall season in 1971, in Puccini's La in New York, the Performing Arts designed the lighting for Rigoletto Rondine. Since then she has become Society of Philadelphia and the and La Fanciulla Del West and in an international star of the first Musee Guimet in Paris. She has won Dallas she has designed Lakme, magnitude, through such acclaimed awards in vocal competitions in Aida, the Barber of SeVille, Manon , portrayals as the title role in Lucchino Paris, Barcelona and New York . La Traviata and the United States Visconti's Spoleto production of premiere of Orlando Furioso. This Manon L escaut and the title role in season in Dallas Ms. Rennagel will the American premiere of Lulu with ANDREAS POULIMENOS, last begin work on Wagner's Ring Cycle, the Santa Fe Opera. season's Don Giovanni for Michigan a project of four years. Opera Theatre, returns this year for Miss Shade's appearances with the two widely varied roles: the Baron Ms. Rennagel is currently repre New York City Opera have included Scarpia for three performances of sented on Broadway with Woman of leading roles in Susannah, Madama Tosca and Mossi, the heroine's the Year . Other Broadway produc Butterfly, Die Tote Stadt and brother, in all performances of tions include Tennessee Williams' Mefistofele. Her performances last Anoush. This is his second season for dual appearances with Mo.T; he was Marcello in La Bohe me and Lionel in Joan of Arc during the fall of 1979. 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Smartt has received , Lescaut in Salzburg, Thais in advance performing degrees from tl Avignon, Don Giovanni in Portland, the Indiana University School of f, Faust with the San Antonio Sym Music where he has also appeared a phony and La Traviata with the St. as Re~ato in A Masked Ball and in r-. Petersburg Opera. She was seen and the title roles of Rigoletto and the sl heard nationally with the Boston world premiere of Jacob Lenz. ir Pops Orchestra in a tribute to lA Richard Rodgers, and has just com N ANDREW SMITH returns this C pleted a summer theatre tour in the season for his third MOT production, Stephanie Sundlne title role of The Merry Widow. o singing the role of Scarpia in three H performances of Tosca. He received STEPHANIE SUNDINE makes her Michigan Opera Theatre debut national attention in the title role of M The Emperor Jones when MOT this season in the title role of Puccini's Tosca - a role she has Y revived the Gruenberg opera in C 1979, and returned the following sung with the Hawaii Opera and with . . the New York City Opera, including ar ..,. season as the Count de Luna in II M Trovatore . that company's recent appearances • at Wolf Trap. wi - Ll A member of the New York City Ri Opera since 1977, where his Miss Sundine's New York City Opera debut was as Margherita/ Elena in inc Michael V. Smartt Andrew Smith appearances have included La W Fanciulla del West and Street Scene, Boito's Me/istofele. She has also MICHAEL V. SMARTT, singing the Gi Mr. Smith made his Metropolitan sung with the Opera Theatre of role of Porgy in this season's MOT Pi1 Opera debut in 1978 with Britten's Rochester, Des Moines Metro production of Porgy and Bess, per Gr Billy Budd. He has also appeared at Opera, Fort Worth Opera Associa formed the role in the Houston th, the Met in Weill's Rise and Fall of the tion, Savannah Symphony and the Grand Opera international tour of cr~ City of Mahagonny. The baritone's Atlanta Civic Opera, with whom she the Gershwin classic. His profes Sy busy 1981-82 schedule includes was highly acclaimed in the title role sional theatre debut was as Hud in of Adriadne auf Naxos. She has thE Amonasro in the Connecticut the musical Hair at Chicago's been the recipient of grants from the Schubert Theatre. Opera's Aida and Count de Luna opposite Leontyne Price in the Met's Sullivan Foundation, the Rockefeller SA new II Trovatore. Foundation and the National Opera for A graduate of Tennessee State Institute. Op tiOl the Me chicken coutrt Gibb's SYI ~p~tauran WORLD WIDE WINES ~vern Mis 50 CHICKEN? THE GREATEST! thn BUT WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE EUI Steaks, Seafood and inc! Our Own Desserts .. La . 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Since then, she has been acclaimed as Carmen in her native Santiago de Chile as well as in productions for the Greater Miami Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Victoria Vergara Opera, Connecticut Opera and Hawaii Opera Theatre.

Miss Vergara debuted with the New York City Opera as Lola in Cave lie ria Rusticana, and has also appeared with the company as Maddalena in Rigoletto - a role she will recreate in a new film starring Luciano Pavarotti and Katia Willie Anthony Ricciarelli. Other recent roles have Waters included Valencienne in The Merry . Widow for the Chicago Lyric Opera, Giulietta in Tales of Hoffmann in Pittsburgh, and the title role in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein with the Houston Grand Opera. Concert credits include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bach's Magnificat and the Mozart Requiem.

SARAH VENTURA, stage director for Tosca, first worked with Michigan Opera Theatre on the 1979 produc tion of II Trovatore; she also directed the production of Fidelio on which MOT collaborated with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra last spring .

Miss Ventura has directed more than 50 different operas for companies throughout the United States, Europe and South America, including such traditional works as La Boheme, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville and La Traviata as well as such . relative rarities as .Scarlatti's II Trionfo del Onore, Cimarosa's II . Matrimonio Segreto, Haydn's II Mondo della Luna and Strauss' A Night·in Venice. This year's schedule includes Don Pasquale and Lucia di Lammermoor in Utah and Madama Butterfly in Santiago de Chile. The richness of WILLIE ANTHONY WATERS, paisley with conductor for Tosca, is returning for the news of a his third consecutive MOT season after conducting II Trovatore in 1979 border-print tunic. and last year's Rigoletto. The young conductor has just been named to the position of Music Administrator for the Greater Miami Opera ASSOciation, and will assume his new duties there this fall. JacobS onS

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had to have a strong streak of bulldog 1903 Win/on cour/elY a/Crawford Auto MUJ eum, Cle~/and, Ohio. 80 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Madama Butterfly and Werther; he has also sung leading tenor roles with the Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, Happiness Comes Greater Miami Opera and the • American Opera Center. He recently In a made a debut at Carnegie Hall with Birks Blue Box the Philadelphia Orchestra in Scriabin's Symphony No. 1.

Jon Fredrlc Wat Richard Winkler RICHARD WINKLER is involved sional debut in 1979 with the Utah with his third MOT production as Opera, after four years as musical lighting designer for Porgy and Bess. . assistant to Kurt Herbert Adler, Last season he created the lighting general director of the San Francisco for Die Fledermaus and for Fidelia, Opera. Subsequent conducting MOT's joint venture with the Detroit credits have included The Abduction Symphony Orchestra. For the past from the SeragliO, Madama seven seasons he has designed lights Butterfly, The Merry Widow , for such Dallas Civic Opera produc Macbeth and Weill's Lost in the Stars tions as Turandot, La Cenerentola, for such companies as Opera South, Rlgoletto, La Boheme, Salome, Connecticut Opera, Opera Memphis Madame Butterfly and their new and the Western-Spring Opera of Romeo and Juliet. San Francisco. Mr . Winkler's Broadway credits in JON FREDRIC WEST, singing the clude Your Arms Too Short to Box role of Cavaradossi in three perfor with God, the Shirley Bassey Con mances of Tasca this season, was cert, Something's Afoot, Best Friend highly acclaimed as Canio in MOT's and The Play's the Thing. He also 1979 production of I Pagliacci. The supervised lighting The Concert star BIRKS same role marked his first ring Frank Sinatra and both of Canada's Leading Jewelers Ouellette Avenue • Windsor, Ontario appearance In Nancy, France, after a Shirley MacLaine's Palace Theatre Left at the Tunnel Exit European debut with the Scottish engagements. He is the lighting con Parking Across the Street Opera in Simon Boccanegra. sultant for Canada's Wonderland, a Mr. West has appeared with the huge new theme park that opened Houston Grand Opera in Otel/o, this spring.

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The Mikado has been the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ever since its premiere on March 14, 1885. Its initial run was for an unprecedented 672 perform ances; it has been constantly performed throughout the world during the past 97 years and is the only Gilbert and Sullivan work to have been filmed in full (although The Pirates of Penzance will be added to that list shortly).

The Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration actually began in 1871 with Thespis, nearly all of which has been lost. Their cycle of great success, however, began in 1875 when impresario Sir Richard D'Oyly Carte persuaded them to work together again on a brief piece to precede Offenbach's La Perichole ; the result was Trial by Jury, and a partnership was born.

The first full-length Gilbert and Sullivan production was The Sorcerer, in 1877, followed in quick order by H.M.S . Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance. In each of these works the wit and brilliance of Gilbert's lilting verbal rhythms are matched and underscored by Sullivan's melodic inven tion and sure sense of musical parody. Patience (1881), Iolanthe (1882) and Princess Ida (1884) continued the Gilbert and Sullivan phenomenon through its first decade.

The Mikado was followed by three operattas of lesser popularity, but dear to the hearts of dedicated Savoyards throughout the world: Ruddigore, The Yeomen of the Guard, and The Gondoliers. At this point a bitter quarrel split the team for a time, but they were eventually reconciled to collaborate on three final works, Utopia Limited, The January 15, 16, 17, 19, Chieftain and The Grand Duke. 20,21, 22, 23, 1982 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 85 .9l tradition of fine ifimng ln rie im yrosse Pointe de

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BESS· lyrics DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin

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January 29, 30, 31, February 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1982 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 91 PORGY THE BAKER'S LOAF AND "A fresh approach to baking" GODIVA. BESS Chorolatier ACT ONE: It is Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1930's. The curtain BRUXELLES • NEW YORi< rises on .Catfish Row, an area along PARIS • COLOGNE the Charleston waterfront where once-aristocratic ·homes have "WE SPECIALIZE become a black tenement district. It is 29847 NORTHWESTERN HWY. IN THE SPECIAL" a hot summer night; Clara sings a SOUTHFIELD, MICH. 48034 PHONE: 354·LOAF lullaby to her baby while other residents of Catfish Row dance, sing, slowly been accepted by the suspi Porgy and Bess sing of their love as play and start a crap game. Sportin' cious community, leads them in a the residents of Catfish Row depart The Life, Robbins and the crippled beg rousing hymn. for Kittiwah Island . Bess wants to mOl gar Porgy are among the crap stay with Porgy, but he convinces her rool shooters when Crown arrives to join About a month later - the day of the to go to the picnic without him. Cro the game with Bess on his arm. big lodge picnic on Kittiwah Island in Bes the harbor - Clara begs her hus On the island that evening, Sportin' to t The drunken Crown gets into an band Jake not to go fishing so close Life sings It Ain't Necessarily So as her. argument and ends by killing Rob to hurricane season, but he insists people pack up to return home. The husl bins with a cotton hook; in his hurry that they need the money and last to leave, Bess is suddenly con and to escape before the police arrive, he leaves. Maria catches Sportin' Life fronted by Crown, who has been crie: leaves Bess behind. After refusing to peddling his "happy dust" and runs hiding out on the island. Despite her and . go with Sportin' Life, she tries to find him off with a butcher knife. Frazier pleas that he leave her alone and find OthE . somewhere along Catfish Row to bilks Porgy out of some money for a himself another woman, he succeeds Cro hide from the police; but the only "divorce" for Bess, but the cripple is in sedUcing her as the boat whistle wor door open to her is Porgy's and Bess too happy too care. The day is fur sounds in the background. The qUickly enters, leaving Serena to ther brightened when Mr. Archdale, ACT TWO: On Catfish Row a week grieve for her dead husband, a white man, overcomes the resi mOl later, Peter returns from jail as the and Robbins. dents' suspicions and announces that fishermen head out to sea and others he will put up bail for old Peter, who corr gather to pray for the recovery of actu In Serena's room the next night the is still in jail. As he turns to leave, Bess, who is lying feverish and dead man is laid out, and neighbors ~ however, a buzzard flies low over the desE delirious in Porgy's room. When sbe mo\ are dropping by to contribute money courtyard and everyone recognizes comes out, Porgy explains that he for his burial expenses, The police the predatory bird as an omen of ill pov. knows but does not care that she was Cro burst in, ordering Serena to bury her fortune. with Crown. She tells him that al husband at once and arbitrarily though she wants to stay with him; stru~ accuse the old man Peter of his As everyone goes off to get ready for she is afraid that she will not be The murder. Despite his indignant in the picnic, Sportin' Life reappears to strong enough to resist Crown when sistance that Crown was the killer, offer Bess some "happy dust." She are he comes for her. Porgy promises to attel Peter is taken away for questioning. refuses and the powerful Porgy near protect her, and they go inside. Sud When the police have left, the wake ly breaks the dope peddler's wrist killir denly the sky darkens and a frighten Por! continues, and an undertaker agrees while warning him to keep away ed Clara realizes that a hurricane is to handle the burial as Bess, having from Bess. Sportin' Life runs off and bod~ brewing with her husband at sea. ing

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3S Irt The storm is still raging early the next police finally force him off with them . Porgy returns with gifts for his friends to morning as friends gather in Serena's and especially for Bess. As people er room to pray and wait. Suddenly Sportin' Life offers the distaught Bess drift awkwardly away, Porgy grad Crown breaks into the room, takes some "happy dust" again, and she ually becomes aware that something Bess, and throws the crippled Porgy finally yields as he paints a picture of is wrong, goes to his room and finds rI" to the floor when he tries to protect the glamorous life waiting for the two that Bess is gone. He fears that she is IS her. Clara screams, having seen her of them in New York. She refuses dead, and is overjoyed when Serena Ie husband's boat capsized in the river, more dope and goes in, but he non and Maria explain that she has gone 1- and rushes out into the storm. Bess chalantly throws a packet in after off to New York. Calling for his goat n cries for someone to go after her her. In short order she is back out, and cart - and over the objections and, after taunting Porgy and the thoroughly under the influence of the of everyone on Catfish Row - d others for being afraid to do so, drug, and goes off with him. Porgy sets off in search of his Bess. Is ' Crown goes out after the distraught Ie woman. A week later, Catfish Row has re -RET turned to normal when an ebullient The following night Catfish Row is ~k mourning the deaths of Clara, Jake and Crown when Sportin' Life comes in and hints that Crown is actually still alive. When the court is ~:h deserted, Crown enters qUietly and Ie moves toward Porgy's room. The '-OG.~~r-~RAL OFFICE SUPPLY CO. ,e HAS OPENED ANOTHER STORE AT powerful cripple, however, catches IS 1020 SO. WOODWARD IN BIRMINGHAM Crown off guard and, after a long * * AMPLE PARKING LOT ON LINCOLN * * 1- struggle, kills him . l', OTHER STORES 'e The following afternoon, the police BIRMINGHAM. TELEGRAPH AT MAPLE n 626·4700 are having no success in their o DEJ"ROIT C.N.B. (PENOBSCOT BLDG.) attempts to get information about the 962·7983 1- WYANDOTTE. 2948 BIDDLE AVE. killing of Crown. Finally they call for 285·9595 l FOR Porgy to go down to identify the HILTON HEAD, S.C. ARROW RD. AT ARCHER is QUICK DELIVERY body. The cripple is terrified of see CALL 642·6330 803-785·8885 ing his victim's face again, but the Give Detroit a lift. If you need a new car, buy now.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 93 PORGY AND BREAKF AST-LUNCH-DINNER BESS D In 1934, when it was announced that George Gershwin was at work on an American opera based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, the young DETROIT'S MOST THEATRICAL composer was approached by two DELI-RESTAURANT different organizatioris interested in presenting the finished work. One FEATURING was the Theatre Guild, and the other BEFORE & AFTER THE THEATRE was the Metropolitan Opera. Since SNACKS & MEALS SERVED IN A SETTING the Met could offer only a limited THAT TAKES YOU TO number of performances with little BROADWAY & BACKSTAGE chance of financial success while the Theatre Guild proposed a full Broad way run, Gershwin and Heyward chose the latter - a fateful decision OPEN 7 DAYS that affected public and critical response to Porgy and Bess for years afterward. 1020 WEST SEVEN MILE ROAD AT First of all, the decision to opt for a WOODWARD AVENUE commercial run meant that the score DETROIT - (313) 892-9645 had to be somewhat diluted in view of the limited number of instruments that could fit Into a Broadway or chestra pit. It also meant that some of the music composed for the character of Porgy had to be cut, ALL LINES INSURANCE SERVICE since no one could sustain so difficult a role through eight performances a week.

More important, however, was the fact that by opening on Broadway Gershwin subjected Porgy and Bess I to critical standards of a very different nature than those that would be applied toa work In the opera reper ~ toire. The original company, for ex ample, played 124 performances In New York - certainly an enviable \ Livingston record for a new opera in Its debut season. But by Broadway standards Associates of the time, 124 performances was considered a failure, and the repu ~ l tation of having failed on Broadway was to follow Porgy and Bess for some forty years.

Porgy and Bess has never been a failure, and its reputation has grown phenomenally since its New York premiere on October 10, 1935. In Europe It became a part of the operatic repertoire in a number of 30640 TWELVE MILE ROAD countries within a very few years after its premiere. In the United FARMINGTON HILLS, MICHIGAN 48018 States, where the very toncept of TELEPHONE (313) 851·8383 retaining Important works in reper- Continued on page 112 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 94 fOr All Your 9JoP/hi1g NeetlS." ~ Turn to Dr. David DiChiera, General Director ORTHIAND Greenfield South of Nine Mile

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GONG JA CHO, a Korean now PETER CLEGG is in his second residing in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, is year as an MOT artist intern. A completing master's work in voice at graduate student in voice and opera Artist Wayne State University. since arriv at the Juilliard School in New York ing in the United States in 1980, Miss City, he's performed for the past Cho has won a $500 scholarship in three summers at the Lake George Interns the Oakway Symphony's Young Opera Festival, including the role of Artists competition, performed in Ruder in The Student Prince. A Falls Samson and Dalila at Madonna Church, Virginia native, Mr. Clegg 1981 College and sung oratoria with the sang in Un Ballo in Maschera, Or/eo, Wayne State University Orchestra. Midsummer's Night Dream and Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at the American Opera Theatre.

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 95 RICHARD COWAN, a recent graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, received dual degrees . in vocal performance and composi tion . A baritone, he sang the title role in a university opera theatre produc tion of Prince Igor, and was an Step back Into the " Roaring 20's" - America's most fun-filled and exciting era - associate instructor in voice. In addi at Andrew's on the Corner. A rebirth of the famous restaurant established in 1918, tion to composing orchestral pieces, Andrew's has been restored to all its original glory. Cool of with our tempting, chamber music and many songs, Mr . fresh frozen daqulrls. Enjoy a variety of luncheon delights and tap the spirits from this historic bar. Prohibition never had It so good. Stop by to relax, sip a brew and Cowan is now wtiting an opera enjoy the good-natured atmosphere. Open six days a week, 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Dinner based on D. H. Lawrence's The Fox. 'til 11 p.m. Closed Sunday. He placed first in Cleveland district auditions for the Metropolitan Opera AE, MC, VISA and went on to take third place in 201 Joseph Campau, Detroit regional auditions in Toronto. This II summer he was a scholarship partici 259·832 pant in the Goldovsky Opera Work SJ shop in Massachusetts. Jy 01 in ROBERT FERRIER, a native of Nt McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was a M, member of the 1981 Wolf Trap lat Opera Company where he appeared C, in The Marriage of Figaro, The Rape IIIi of Lucretia and L'Enfant et les Sor on tileges . while completing his master's ml degree in Opera at Carnegie-Mellon Ur University, he was featured in Pitts pa burgh Opera productions of Sa . Carmen, Tosca, and Ariadne auf M, Naxos. Other opera credits include W the Blossom Festival School Opera, sh the Pittsburgh Chamber Theatre, Mi Carnegie-Mellon University Opera and Duquesne University Opera Workshop. Ferrier was the winner of the 1981 Pittsburgh District Metro EI politan Opera Auditions. go CI so DIANE JAMISON has sung some ur: of opera's choicest female roles, in Hi cluding Mimi and Musetta in La an Boheme and Micaela in Carmen with CI the Arizona Lyric Touring Company; an Madame Flora and Monica in The wi Medium with the Memphis Opera; HI and Violetta In La Traviata as well as BE the title role of Manon with the In cir spiration Point Fine Arts Colony, M' Arkansas. A Pittsburgh resident presently completing her doctorate at Duquesne University, she was awarded a National Association of Teachers of Singing scholarship early MJ in her career. w~ Ed For those who prefer the les personal touch ... as! ve MOT inc hotel Pontchartrafn crE PUB CRAWL TWO WASHINGTON BOULEVARD n DETROIT. MICHIGAN 48226 • (3 13) 965.0200 th, Br October 22 Or Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 96 enter jnto a chjldren's lantasyland ••• the thunderbjrd toy shop ••• bjrmjnaham

SARAH JOHANNSEN was recent DENNIS LEACH, a native of Jack ly associated with the Lake George son, Michigan, presently lives in Opera Festival, where she performed Bloomington, Indiana, where he's in the premiere of Sorry, Wrong involved with the Indiana University Number and covered Cio-Cio-San in Opera Theatre. a student of the Madame Butterfly. She first sang the internationally renowned basso latter role, as well as roles in The Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Dennis has Crucible and Idomeneo, with the sung the roles of Figaro in Le Nozze Illinois Opera Theater while working di Figaro, Ford in Falstaff, on her master's and doctorate in Schaunard in . Le Boheme and de music at the University of Illinois, Britigny in Manon. Urbana. Miss Johannsen has also participated in internships with the Santa Fe Opera and the Des Moines Metro Summer Festival of Opera. With the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, she appeared as Pitti-Sang in The Royal Mikado. ( International

ERIC JOHNSON is from Muske ailitiitt Travel Service gon, Michigan and now resides in Chicago, where he has performed as can send you soloist with the Chicago Symphony tlilllCl1 SittllS under James Levine and Margaret anywhere in the world Hillis. Highlights of his career include an appearance as soloist with the Chicago Lyric Oper's Paradise Lost and the role of Don Jose in Carmen, JEFFREY B SLATKINS which he performed in Cincinnati. He is presently a student of Patricia audio systems Berlin and Joseph Alexande at Cin and components cinnati's College-Conservatory of that recreate ROYAL INTERNATIONAL Music. the thri II of your musical TRAVEL SERVICE, IINC. experience. MICHAEL RICHARD KOHLER, who holds a B.S. degree in Music 31455 Southfield Rd. Education from Lebanon Valley Col Birmingham, Mich. 48009 lege, is presently a graduate teaching (313) 644-1600 assistant at Bowling Green State Uni versity In Ohio. There his roles have included Morales in Carmen, Tan cred In Padrevia and John Sorel in 794 N. WOODWARD The Consul. Among his musical BIRMINGHAM theatre credits are leading roles in Brigadoon, Camelot, Carousel and 642-6383 Once Upon a Mattress. Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 97 BRYAN POST, a lyric tenor, recent ly received his masters in opera theatre from the Oberlin Conser vatory of Music in Ohio. A three-time winner of National Association of Teachers of Singing regional com petitions, he has taught voice at Oberlin since 1979. He's held leading roles in musical theater and operatic productions at Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio and Winter Park, Florida. KATHLEEN SEGAR comes to Michigan Opera Theatre's intern pro gram as its first recipient of the $1,500 Francis Robinson Profes sional Engagement Award, whereby one young performer at the annual auditions sponsored by the Detroit Grand Opera Association is granted a resident scholarship with MOT. A student of Rosemary Russell, Miss Segar received her bachelors and ChID10te Riches at masters degrees in music from the University of Michigan . In addition to singing in the 1979 District Sym ~:= tissirrD phony production of Elektra, she has '-J. ULTIM4TE IN 1~I~t CI-ITO~TE been a member of the Canary Island Las Palmas Opera Festival perform SOMERSET MALL · TROY · (313) 643-77 48 ing Maria Sturda, Don Giovanni, The Tales of Hoffman, Macbeth, Otel/o and Simon Boccanegra.

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100 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre SPECIAL SERVICES Michigan Opera Theatre is indebted to the folloWing companies and organizations for their special services rendered throughout the past year.

American Mailers Huston Hardware American Natural Resources System ILRO Productions (Los Angeles, California) Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream (Oakland Mall) Jacobson's The Bendix Corporation The Jeffersonian Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Michigan Johnson & Higgins Bonwit Teller Jonathon B. Pub (Oakland Mall) Borman's, Inc . K mart Corporation Burroughs Corporation Kaney Island (Oakland Mall)

f r III',PI (f. Y. o " Campbell-Ewald Company Lake Jewelers lOr. /I" Charter house Jewelers F. Joseph Lamb Co. I ' ~[i'JORTHFIELD HILTON INt ~ I Chatham Complete Food Centers, Inc. Leonard Bros. Moving and Storage Co. HI ():\! ' 5500 Crooks Rd. at 1-75 In Tl> Chrysler Corporation LOF Plastics, Inc. I Ii . Troy, Michigan 48098 'I~ Circus World Toy Stores MACCO Auto Painting and Bodyworks (313)879-2100 WI1 r' 1<1 City of DetrOit Recreation Department Manufacturers Nattonal Bank of DetrOit PH ·I, i~ SP F ECHES S" JI Mi\lI (" f \1 1" "\ " l .lJ The Clark Family Players l KtNCI:S DANCES IlEUNIONS P f!O ~' S' :;Pi: Fl: Michigan Bell Telephone Co. RS El NOlI[T 'JEDOINGS REce PTIONS ' Classic Restoration , Inc. Miner's of Bloomfield, Inc. rllf RS PI\ ,r AN r" 'JRIDAl SHO\".'F-RS MU I Delta Airlines Movies at Oakland Mall Designs in Leather C. A. Muer Corporation The Detroit Lions, Inc . Newton Furniture, Inc. Detroit Pure Milk Co. Nonce Dance Ensemble Detroit Symphony Orchestra Orthoganality MEETING S SEMINARS lECTURE S CK- OFF DINNER S BABY SHOWERS Detroit Tigers Baseball Club Pointe Electronics Co. I I Detroit Zoological Park Pontchartrain Hotel Margaret Diamond Shop, Inc. Price Waterhouse and Co. Linda Dressner, Inc . Restaurant Duglass DuMouchelle Art Galleries Co. Rockwell International Elias Brothers Restaurants Saks Fifth Avenue (Somerset Mall) Franklin Racquet Club Simons, Michelson, Zleve, Inc. Fretter Appliance Centers Tivoli, Ltd. Gannett Outdoor of Michigan Ralph Vigliotti Realty, Inc. £ynn Portnoy Gail's General Office Supply Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc. Guccl (Somerset Mall) Charles W. Warren Hamilton Place Weight Watchers, Inc. C. A. Howe ll and Co., Inc . Wells, Rich , Greene / Detroit. Inc.

Affordable Michigan Opera Theatre would like to express its deep gratitude to The Renaissance Club in recognition of their concern and support for Detroit's fine arts . The generous gifts contributed through Renaissance Fashions Club by new membe rs and their sponsors play an important role in the cultural community, as well as in· suring that a wellspring of creativity and talent continues in the Renaissance of Detroit. For Business MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE expresses its deep appreciation to the following individuals, whose volunteer efforts were essential to the sale of advertising In this 1981-82 program book: Women Bud Allen, Grey Advertising, Detroit E.J . Kreitz, K mart Corpora/ion Paul Barrett, SSC&B, New York John L. Lee ·Wardrobe consulting by appointment Allen Breward, Norman Smith, ALCOA Wells , Rich, Greene / New York, Inc. Richard Starkweather, Ford Motor Company Fred Cody, Indian Head Morton Zieve, Simons Michelson Zieve, Inc . 964-0339 John Griffin , Sheller-Globe

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 101 INDIVIDUAL PATRONS Mrs . Aaron H . Gershenson Continued from page 31 Mrs . William Gershenson Patricia Ball Dr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Green Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Banks Drs. Ralph and Gertrude Gregory Mrs. Carl O. Barton Judge and Mrs. Roman S . Gribbs Mrs . Stephen J . Bartush Hugh M. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. William Beach Dr. and Mrs . Karl Hanyi Dr. and Mrs . William Beauregard Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris Mr. and Mrs . William A. Bell, II Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hepp Mr. and Mrs . George R. Berkaw, Jr. Ed Herman MUCCIOLI Dr. and Mrs . George W. Biran Dr. and Mrs . J. H. Hertzler Mr. and Mrs . Norman L. Bird Mr. and Mrs . Herman Hiller STUDIO Mr. and· Mrs . Henry S . Booth Mr. and Mrs. W. Paul Hoenle GALLERY Kathryn V. Bovard Mr. Frederick G . L. Huetwell Dr. and Mrs . Sander J . Breiner Jerry and Doris Jefferies Mr. and Mrs. J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Gage Johnson Creative Dr. and Mrs. John D. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Wesley R. Johnson Gold Jewelry Roy and lise Calcagno Mrs. Barbara Johnston Mr. and Mrs . Martin J. Caserio Jefferson L. Jordan Bracelets, Chains, Albert E. Chabot Rings & Pendants Capt. and Mrs . Robert G . Kales Dr. and Mrs . Ralph R. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kellman Also Redesigning of your Mr. and Mrs. Rodkey Craighead Dr. and Mrs . Charles Kessler Gems & Gold Dr. and Mrs . Lawrence R. Crane Mr. and Mrs . Kurt R. Keydel Paul Czamanske Designed & Made by Nate Richard Kokochak Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D'Angelo Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Landsdorf (If you can't find it, Mr. and Mrs . John W. Day he can make anything for you.) Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ledyard Mr. and Mrs . A. E. Downing Dr. and Mrs. John M. Lesesne Diamond & Stone Setting Dr. and Mrs. Paul J . Dzul Expert Jewelry Repair J . Phillip Levant Shirley Eder Mr. and Mrs . Thomas V. LoCicero Stewart Epstein Louise Watercolor & Oil Mr. and Mrs . Elliott M. Estes Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McCabe Sculpture Dr. and Mrs . Herbert Feldstein Mr. and Mrs . Angus J . McMillan W. Hawkins Ferry Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur H. Mack Figures, Still Life, Mrs . George R. Fink Orientals, Butterflies, Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Maicki Mrs . Charles T. Fisher, Jr. Mr. and Mrs . Harold M. Marko & Driftwoods Rocks Mr. and Mrs Charles T . Fisher, III Dr. and Mrs. Barry Mayo by Anna Dr. Evelyn J. Fisher David A. Mittler and Janis C . Mittler Prize Winning Artist Mr. and Mrs . William F. Flournoy Mr. and Mrs . Thomas A. Murphy Mr. Charles A. Forbes Dr . and Mrs. K. E. Pitts S11 Beaubien Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C . Fortunski Dr. and Mrs. Harold Plotnick Detroit, Michigan 48226 Winifred and Douglas Fraser Mr. and Mrs. David Pollack U.S.A. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Frenkel Dr . and Mrs . Frank T. Rastigue (313) 962-4700 Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fretter Mr. and Mrs . Dean E. Richardson Mary Ann Fulton Mr. and Mrs . Mayford L. Roark GALLERY HOURS: Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Geiger TUE. to SAT. 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Attorney and Mrs . Horace Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Frank Germack, Jr. Hon. and Mrs . George Romney Mr. and Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. and Mrs. Norman H . Rosenfeld Mr. and Mrs . Mike Rosenthal Harriet and Norman Rotter Robert C. Schweizer Mr. and Mrs . Donald E. Schwendema Dr. and Mrs. Gunter Seydel Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sloan Neil and PhylliS D. Snow SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN Mrs . Carl J . Snyder Herbert Sott Mr . and Mrs. Edward J . Stroble, Jr. CLEVELAND, OHIO Robert and Mary Margaret Sweeten Continued on page 104 102 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre

- White Chapel MEMORIAL CEMETERY

The new Chapel of Memories represents the Private • Non-Sectarian fulfillment of over a half century of planning and building WestLong Lake Rd. at Crooks Rd., Troy at White Chapel. It features stained glass chancel windows which take their theme from the 148th Psalm. With space for over 300 crypts, the chapel is used for monthly memorial services, and is available for interment services as well. For information or assistance, please call 564-5475.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 103 INDIVIDUAL PATRONS Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Colosimo Edward J. McGratty, Jr. Continued from page 102 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Conlin Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. McKean Janet B. Cooper Robert B. MacKay Dr. and Mrs: Harry H. Szmant Adele M. Cote Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Mrs. Betty MacKenzie Mary Rita Cuddohy Mary Louise Meade Dr. Howard R. Weissman Ernest De Fusco Daniel and Miriam Medow Dr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Westcott Jon M. De Horn Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Westlake John R. Depa and Eva Slarkowski Depa Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Misch Eugene L. Wielock Loren A. Deer Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Mistretta Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Williams Dr. and Mrs. Juan-Carlos Di Musto Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Morgenstein Marilyn L. Williamson Mrs. Thomas A. Dunlap Ronald K. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Winkelman Dorothy Duris Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Mossner Mr. and Mrs. Duane E. Wolfgang Pat Eames Dr. Brian Murphy and Dr. George T. Eldis The Women's City Club of Detroit Mrs. Antonia Sanchez Richard Ensign Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. Nelson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Young Mrs. Jerome J. Fellrath Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Zanetti PaulO. Nelson Judith Fietz Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Nolish Mr. and Mrs. Morton Zieve Philip Fox, II Mrs. James North W. Tom ZurSchmlede Foundation Judge and Mrs. William J. Giovan Mr. and Mrs. George Gravila Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. O'Hara Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Orent CORPORATE FRIENDS Lawrence J. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gualtieri Mrs. Richard J. Osborn Gail's General Office Supply Mrs. Harold D. Gumpper Reverend Thaddeus J. Ozog Robert L. Kldd Associates, Inc. Dr. Edwin L. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Peterson Pontchartrain Hotel Mr. and Mrs. William B. Heaton L. I. Piccone, M.D. George Williams Interiors, Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Pickl Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel G. Piesko INDIVIDUAL FRIENDS Steve Katsakis Michael and Rose Popenas Mrs. Stanley R. Akers Nancy Keenan Mr. and Mrs. David W. Porter Arthur M. and Mary Lee Keillor Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Alleshouse Mr. and Mrs. William C. Porter Mr. and Mrs. James H. Kerrigan John T. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Juan G. Posada, Sr. Julian Klein Mrs. Charles C. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Glenn T. Purdy Mr. and Mrs. Ben Atlas Harvey Kline Dr. and Mrs. Sidney D. Kobernick Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reimer Robert A. Barnhart Warren L. Reinecker Dr. and Mrs. Lary R. Berkower James F. Korzenowski Sam Rich Dr. and Mrs. Eric Billes Robert Joseph Kramek Ruth E. Bliefield, J. D. Kenneth C. Kreger Eduardo Rivera, M.D. Dorothy V. Bloomer James W. Kunz Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Robelli Richard F. Borsos Dr. and Mrs. James Labes William J. Roosen Mr. and Mrs. William A. Bostick Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Lanning E. Lawrence Rosenberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert Braun Dr. and Mrs. Kim K. Lie S. Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bright Elizabeth A. Long Marion E. Ryan Mrs. Ora L. Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Longyear Emanuel Sahanek Mr. and Mrs. George E. Cartmill Bonnie S. Lu Ann and Ernest W. Scanes Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Cartwright Dr. and Mrs. Leon Lucas Allen J. Serra Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colker Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. McCabe Lee William Slazlnski Mrs. Marshall E. Collins Mr. and Mrs. D. D. McCarthy Robert F. Sly, M.D. Kenneth Collinson Elizabeth K. Smith Mr. and Mrs. William B. Smolek An American Randee Sorscher - Lebanese Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Spencer Restaurant Mrs. Louise Sper LUNCH - DINNER James P. Stackpole BEFORE & AFTER Dr. Sheldon and Jessie Stern THE OPERA Mrs. Arthur J. Stock Excellent Cuisine & Mr .. and Mrs. Joseph Strobl Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. Suczek Entertainment Marvin M. Tamaroff in an Intimate atmosphere Roy C. Tasslnare Complete accommodations for MOT Groups Mr. and Mrs. Burt E. Taylor 4124 Woodward Avenue Mrs. Jane R. Taylor 833·0120 4 blocks south of the Cultural Center in Mr. and Mrs. C. Brandt Tefft Detroit's new Medical Center Continued on page 106 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 104 Strong, lightweight aluminum alloys can help "A lighter car cars become lighter. And reduced weight in cars can mean more miles per gallon. That's why many aluminum parts are now being used uses less gasoline. in various American cars. And why many others are under serious consideration. Someday, Here are 28 ways perhaps, they'll all be included in the same car. And America will go a lot further on a gallon of gas. For free booklet write Alcoa, 604-L Alcoa Alcoa aluminum can Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. help increase your We can't wait for tomorrow. miles per gallon:' mALCOA

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 107 INDIVIDUAL Maya Elmer Natan Har Paz CONTRIBUTORS William Farrant Reverend and Mrs . Obleton L. Harris Continued from page 106 Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Felder Pauline Harris Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Casemore Mr . and Mrs . Jacob Feldman W. J . Hayden Allan Christie David Ferger Mr. and Mrs . Carleton Healy Mr. and Mrs . H. S. Christner Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Fink Harriet M. Helms Mr . and Mrs. Stanley J. Clamage Dr. and Mrs . Lionel Finklestein James Hugh Henry Mr. and Mrs. Robert Closson Mr. and Mrs . Vernon F. Fishtahler Ralph Hess Mr . and Mrs . Fred Cody John Fleming Mr . and Mrs . Donald W. Hines Allan B. Copley Mr. and Mrs . Daniel S . Fo.llis Adeline Hirschfeld-Medalia Robert F. and PhHlis D. Courter Mr. and Mrs . Louis P. Fontana Paul F. Honto Anne D. Curtis Mr. and Mrs . Gordon T . Ford Mr. and Mrs. James L. Howlett William R. Darmody Mr. and Mrs . M. Kelly Fritz Sarah K. Hoyt Mr. and Mrs . Richard F. Huegli Richard and Estelle deBear Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Garcia John Humphries Mr. and Mrs. Richard Deloge Mr. and Mrs . Keith D. Gardels Mr. and Mrs. H. Thomas Hunt Victor John Deptner Philip Gentile Dr . and Mrs. M. C . Hutchins Peggy deSalle Byron P. Georgenson, D. O . Mrs . Frank P . Iacobell Mary A. DeTomaso Ms . Leona (Lee) Gierczak Amy Davis Jackson Philip D. Dexter Ronald R. Gilbert Col. and Mrs . Arthur Jefferson Constance P. K. Dickinson Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Gilpin Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Johnston Virginia F. Dickson (Mrs . James E.) Mr. and Mrs . Elio Giovannone Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Josaitis Mr. and Mrs . Harry Dreffs Dr. and Mrs. Joel Goldberg Estelle and Edward Kahn George P . Duensing Dr . and Mrs . Herbert Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kaminsky Dr. and Mrs . Charles H . Duncan Drs. James and Helen Graves Robert Kay John W. Dunn Russell Griffiths Mr. and Mrs . Gerald Keller Art and Amy Durfee Henry M. Grix Stephen Keller Mr. and Mrs . Peter Dusina, Jr. Elaine and Paul Groffsky Laura Lee Kelly Mr. and Mrs . Alexander E. Dziewit. Mrs. Claude Grooms Judith G . Kienle Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Eberlin Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hague Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Kolito Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ehlhardt Leslie R. Hare Mr. and Mrs . Harold Kramer Dr. and Mrs . Alfred M. Kreindler Dr . Marilyn Kremen Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Krowlikowski Dr. and Mrs . Lawrence Krugel Miss Ludmila F. Kruse Mr. and Mrs . Lee E. Landes Gordon Langdon Mr. and Mrs . David L. Lanicault Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Larson Dr. Irene S. Lazarchuk Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lazzerih, Jr. Miss Aimee I. LeBlanc Patricia R. Lee Barbara Leeper Philip Leon Dr . Leonard H . and Ms . Lorraine Lerner Detroit Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Lessem Dr. and Mrs . Morris J . Lipnik Ball Bearing Company Carol-Ray Utt L. A. Lopez Dr. and Mrs . Robert T. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Frank J . McGinnis ... always at Mr. and Mrs. William W. McKee • Glascoe McKinney your servtce Lois K. MacKenzie Phoebe and Harris Mainster Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mair

Continued on page 109 Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 108 INDIVIDUAL Neil Rosenthal Mr . and Mrs. Royal G. Targan CONTRIBUTORS Mrs. George Roth Yolanda Tchiblakian Continued from page 108 Sheldon Roth Mrs. Virgie N. Porter Thomas Dr. George S. Rovin Mrs . Edward D. Thomson William C . Mair Mr. and Mrs. Carleton K. Rush Pameia T orraco Mrs . Jessie B. Mann Donald L. Ryden Bprbara B. Trudgen Dave and Jean Margolis Dr . and Mrs . Edwin C . Salter Mr . and Mrs. Allan H. Tushman Mrs. Dolly Mazur Eleanor H. Saluk Margaret E. Tuttle Dr. and Mrs . R. A. Mazzara Jacob J . Samonie Pauline Ullrich Mrs. Garbis P. Mechigian David Sanborn Glenn A. Ulrich Julius S. Megyesi Edsel A. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Elliott H. Valentine Mr . and Mrs . John J. Merenda, Jr. Jarvis J. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. George A. Vazsonyi Dr. Robert L. Merliss Mr. and Mrs. Fred C . Schneidewind Mr. and Mrs . Richard Vreeland Dr. and Mrs . Gerald Michael Lillian R. Scrimgeour Mr. and Mrs . Robert A. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Miller Charles E. Segar P. D. Waltermire Helen and John P. Miller Dr. and Mrs. Nathan P . Segel Mr . and Mrs . S . Wasserman Dr. Herbert and Susan Miller Mrs. Arlene Shaler Anne Waybur In Memory of Glenn Minster Alice Sham mas Kurt A. Weber-Stroebele Viola Moe E.A. Shaptini, M.D. Edith Wehbe Mr . and Mrs . Freeman Monson Mary Sheldon-Raban Frank. Weinan Mr. and Mrs . Bernd E. Mueller Mr. and Mrs. Aaron B. Shifman Mr. and Mrs. Harold N. Weinert Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Murray Edward J. Shumaker Lenore Weiss Audrey Murtland Stuart Sinai Mr . and Mrs. Warren Wilkinson Mr. and Mrs . Walter R. Naas Miss Frances Singer Mr. and Mrs . T. M. Willis Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Nicholson Norman and Denise Smith John D. Wilson Mr. and Mrs . Marshall V. Noecker Raymond C. Smith Mrs. Isadore Winkelman J. F. O'Dell Else R. Smoke Judge and Mrs . John M. Wise Ernest Ooley William Sniderman Mr . and Mrs . Gerald J. Woityra Dr. and Mrs . F. D. Ostrander Mr. and Mrs . S . Gary Spicer Stan and Pris Woollams Mr . and Mrs. Joseph R. Papp Marvin L. Starman, M. D. Young Hae Yoon and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Parcells, Jr. Esther Stepaniak Dosyng Yoon. M.D. Mr. and Mrs . Nicholas Parsons Lowell Stevenson Mr . and Mrs. Harry H. Zaki Mr. and Mrs . John G. Paulson A. Kenneth Stolpman, M.D. Mr. and Mrs . Lawrence S . Zatkin Dr. Marjorie Peebles-Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J . Sura Mr . and Mrs . Stephen A. Zipay Mr. and Mrs. James L. Pensyl Salvatore and Martha Tabacco Dr. and Mrs . Claus Petermann Barbara Tait Mr. Richard N. Peters Mrs. Edwin Peterson Mr. and Mrs . David A. Petrillo COMPLETE EXPORT SHIPPING SERVICE Mr. and Mrs . S. L. Phillips SPECIALISTS IN HEA VY MACHINERY BOXING Irene Piccone EXPERT PACKAGING TO ALL SPECIFICATIONS Jay S. Pinsky Mrs . R. S. Plexico . Bonded Warehouse I nternational Freight Forwarders Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Porretta Containerization FMC 1524 lATA 01-1-4201 Norman J . Pozniak Consolidation NOW IN ITS 40TH YEAR Local.TruckService Teresa Pulido Mrs. Edward D. Quint Miss Jeanette M. Raiteri Brigitte Rauer E,:,~e:tes II KENNELL\' ~ "~.l¥ II O:;~!W;"' Dr. Seymour D. and Susan Raynes (313) 822-3116 · ~ Mrs . H. D. Ritchie TWX: 810·221·1210 563 LYCASTE, DETROIT, M148214 · Port of Palm Beach Mr . and Mrs. James T. Roberts

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 109 ANOUSH acts, he seems to have been as much interested in presenting different Continued from page 55 aspects of peasant life as he was in assume that his audience knew and developing a sustained dramatic pro sympathized with the extreme impor gression and theatrical climax. I felt tance of family and community that a sense of continuity would be approval of an individual's behavior, better served if Acts 1 and 2 were we might find it hard to understand combined to set up the dramatic why Anoush and Saro (who even get situation. The original Act 3 thus married in the original poem) cannot became a presentation of a wedding go away and live together happily scene - though not that of Anoush ever after. In our version, the two are and Saro - with its dances and not married when they run to the customs climaxed by the fateful mountains, and Mossy's desire for wrestling match. Tigranian's Acts 4 nE:fimlIR'~ vengeance can be linked to his con and 5 have become our Act 3, cern for his sister's honor as well as to enabling the audience to experience Time:) ~utlre Pub his own humiliation and outraged the death of Saro and Anoush's des traditionalism. In other words, the cent from despair into suicide as an ~C»~ broad outlines of family honor, com increasingly intense emotional pro munity codes, and a strongly patriar gression. Enjoy a before Theatre chal system are present in both the "Happy Hour" or Sandwiches Armenian and the English librettos, Present and future audiences will Steaks and Seafood in Our but one might put it that the original make the final judgment on the suc Warm and Friendly version deals with these concepts in a cess of Anoush in its new dress, but I New York Style Emporium. subtler and less explicit way. We know that all of those who have must be able to look beyond the worked to present it share my gratifi Your actual incidents and contemplate cation at bringing an Armenian na New York Connection their reflections of deeply felt Arme tional classic onto another stage. Mon-Sat nian folk morality and pride. From the preface to the ANOUSH 963-8484 Certain either changes have been English libretto, published by Wayne 1431 Times Square made for purely dramatic and State University Press, 1981. ADJACENT TO TROLLEY PLAZA theatrical reasons. When Tigranian divided Toumanian's poem into five David DiChiera .,~'s CARPET CO. Great Success in Your Oriental Rugs 11th Season "DEARBORN'S EXCLUSIVE ORIENTAL RUG SHOP"

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Michigan Opera Theatre is proud to have been part of the Porgy and Bess history; our 1975 production was the first by a major American opera com pany. It was followed a year later by the Houston Grand Opera produc tion which returned the Gershwin masterpiece triumphantly to Broad way and to theatres throughout the world. MARGARET So Porgy and Bess has been discovered anew - this time with a DIAMOND difference. For now, with early cuts restored and the vocal, musical and SHOP production facilities of a full opera Fisher Mews company to draw on, the Porgy and Bess you are seeing this season • A new boutique stands closer to Gershwin's original • Lovely Clothes intentions, with its full operatic im • Distinctive Gifts pact shining forth . Clearly there is an • Jewelry opera repertoire in America now, and Porgy and Bess will forever 377 Fisher Rd. Grosse Pte. stand among its proudest 886·8826 achievements. -RET SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS . .. and let them know you appreciate their support for Michigan Opera Theatre! DECORATING WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC ART! In decorating your home, office or any other residential or business interior, photography may be the most personal, versatile art you can choose. Come see us today so we can discuss ways in which our photographic talents might enhance your environment. Together 33 ELIOT we can create something truly beautiful! DETROIT. MICHIGAN 48201 833·5950

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conductor Willie Anthony Waters

director Sarah Ventura Dr. Dvaid DiChiera, General Director

presents English uersion Joseph Machlis GIACOMO PUCCINI sets Thomas P. Struthers TOSCA constructed by Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. Opera in Three Acts lighting Curt Ostermann

costumes Malabar Ltd . , Toronto

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musical preparation George Darden

stage manager Peggy Imbrie

chorus master Robert Myers

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The Scene Rome - June 17, 1800

ACT ONE: The Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle

ACT TWO: Scarp la's apartment in the Farnese Palace In Italian: ACT THREE: October 2, 4, & 10, 1981 A terrace of the Castel Sant' Angelo In English: October 3,6,9, 1981

Floria Tosca, , , , Nancy Shade - October 2, 4, 10 Stephanie Sundine - October 3, 6, 9

Mario Cavaradossi, , , , Francisco Ortiz - October 2, 4, 10 Jon Fredric West - October 3, 6, 9

Baron Scarpia , , , , Andrew Smith - October 2, 4, 10 Andreas Poulimenos - October 3, 6, 9

Angelotti, , , , Richard Cowan·

Sacristan , , , , Steven Henrikson

Sciaronne, , , , Dennis Leach·

Jailer. , , , Robert Ferrier·

Spoletta , , , , Eric Johnson·

Shepherd , , , , Peter Dunn·

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MOT Artist Interns MOT Auxiliary Chorus MOT Children's Chorus Gong Ja Cho Melanie AI Shabkhoun Karim AI Shabkhoun Peter Clegg Pat Balysh Walter AI Shabkhoun Richard Cowan Jonathan Blackshire John Dunn Robert Ferrier Gregory Bryant Peter Dunn Diane Jamison Christian Caubet Sarah Fraser Sarah Johannsen Donald Gallup Roy Hall Eric Johnson Lynn Howard Cathleen Heffernan Michael Kohler Thomas Howard Meghan Heffernan Dennis Leach Aaron Hunt Nina Kertesz Kathleen Segar Lynn Kasch Martha Kolojeski Lee Starr Robert Kinnear Tanisha Kram'er Douglas 0 , Wayland Elizabeth Mar-Aston Nicholas Nagrant Melanie Zoghby Kim Minasian Jason Ravitz Richard Mox Jessica Ravitz Kim Phillips Dolly Shiina David Reynolds Emiko Shiina Ray Roberts Diane Rowlands Pat Smith Susan Stine Hezekiah Williams

MOT Supers Richard Brownes Elizabeth LaRocca Larae Danielson Robert Loiko Frank DiMercurio Jerry Orlowski Trudy Haftka Robert Paul Don Johannes David Pfeiffer Richard Larison George Schmidt

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre painting, and finding the empty lunch basket, Scarpia concludes that the painter Is collabor TOSCA atlng in Angelottl's escape. Tosca returns to tell Cavaradossi that she can The date is June 17, 1800, and the setting is not meet him that night as planned, since she Rome, which at the time was a Papal State is to sing for the Queen In a victory celebration under the political control of the Catholic in the Farnese Palace, and Scarpia qUickly Church. The French Army of Napoleon Bona realizes that her Jealousy can lead him to parte is pressing south into Italy, supported by Cavarado.ssi and Angelottl. Using both the many people in Rome hoping for an over painting and the fan as "evidence," he per throw of the authoritarian papal government suades T osca that the painter has been secretly and a restoration of the Roman Republic . meeting the Marchesa In the church. She departs in a rage to find Cavaradossl, and ACT ONE is set in the Church of San!' Scarpia orders his agents to follow. As Andrea della Valle . Angelottl, a prominent op choristers sing the Te Deum, Scarpla describes ponent of the Papal State who has just his lust for Tosca and admits that he would re escaped from imprisonment in the Castel Sant' nounce heaven to satisfy his deSires . Angelo, enters, finds a secret key and hides in his family's private chapel. The church ACT TWO takes place in Scarpla's apartment sacristan shuffles in, followed by the painter on an upper floor of the Farnese Palace that Mario Cavaradossi, who uncovers the picture night. Music drifts up from the Queen's victory of Mary Magdalene on which he is working. reception on a lower floor as Scarpla sends an The shocked sacristan realizes that the blond agent to bring Tosca to him after she has sung Magdalene is inspired by the Marchesa At below. Scarpla's agent, Spoletta, nervously tavanti (Angelotti's sister), whom Cavaradossi reports that he followed T osca from the church has seen praying in the family chapel. But to Cavaradossi's villa, and thoroughly search Cavaradossi, taking out a miniature portrait of ed the house after she left, but found no trace his beloved Floria Tosca, explains that the por of Angelottl. He has, however, arrested trait is actually a "strange harmony" of the Cavaradossl, who Is now brought before the blond Marchesa and the dark Tosca. police chief. After the sacristan leaves, Angelotti comes out Scarpia interrogates the painter as Tosca's of hiding, recognizes Cavaradossi as a political voice is heard In the background, Singing the sympathizer, and enlists the painter's help. victory cantata. Cavaradossl insists he knows When they hear a voice outside, Cavaradossi nothing; when Tosca arrives in response to gives the starving Angelotti his lunch basket Scarpla's note, he also warns her to be silent and helps him back into hiding. before he is taken into an adjoining room to be tortured. Floria Tosca, the most beautiful and popular singer in Rome, arrives to visit her lover, Tosca resists Scarpia's questioning at first , but Cavaradossi. After praying to the Madonna, after repeatedly hearing her lover screaming In she arranges to meet the painter at his villa pain from the torture chamber, she breaks outside Rome after her performance that down and reveals Angelottl's hiding place. As evening. When she recognizes the face of the Cavaradossl is returned to the room, beratlng Magdalene as that of the Marchesa Attavanti, Tosca for her weakness, Spoletta brings word Tosca flies into a Jealous rage; but Cavaradossi that the earlier reports of Napoleon's defeat succeeds in reassuring her of his love. Pausing were erroneous; the French general was In fact to suggest that he make the eyes in the portrait victorious. Enraged, Scarpla orders his agents dark like hers, instead of blue, Tosca departs. to take Cavaradossl out to the courtyard and hang him . Alone with Angelotti, Cavaradossi gives the fugitive a key to his villa and tells him to hide in Alone with Tosca, Scarpla offers to save a secret chamber that can be reached only Cavaradossi's life in exchange for her sexual through a well in the garden. When a distant ' favors. At first appalled and resistant, Tosca cannon sounds to warn of Angelotti's escape, finally consents. Scarpia orders Spoletta to the two men flee . carry out a fake executlon with a firing squad and blank bullets, and writes out a safe con Word has been received in Rome that duct pass for Tosca and Cavaradossi to leave Napoleon's armies have been defeated by the Rome. As Scarpla exultantly comes to em Austrians at the Battle of Marengo, a serious brace her, Tosca stabs him with a fruit knife, blow to the hopes of Italian republicans. watches him die, takes the pass from his hand Choristers have gathered in the church to and steals out of the room. celebrate when Baron Scarpia, Rome's Chief of Police, arrives with his agents. Having ACT THREE opens on a terrace of the Castel tortured a guard who helped Angelottl escape, Sanl' Angelo later the same night, as a he has followed the prisoner's trail to the . shepherd boy sings In the distance. Cavara church. dossi, told that he has but one hour to live, bribes his jailer for pen and' paper to write After interrogating the sacristan, the chief's T osca as he remembers the happiness they agents find in the private chapel a fan which have shared. When Tosca ts brought to him, Scarpia recognizes from the family crest as she tells Cavaradossl about Scarpia's death, belonging to the fugitive's sister, the Marchesa shows him the safe conduct pass, and Attavantl. Recognizing her in Cavaradossl's continued on page 7

Nancy Shade Stephanie. Sundlne

STEVEN HENRIKSON Is making his MOT NANCY SHADE, singing the ti tle role in the debut this season as the Sacristan in Tosca. He Italian performances of Tasca, first appeared Is, however, well known In the area as the with Michigan Opera Theatre during its first principal voice teacher at the University of Music Hall season in 1971, in Puccini's La Windsor and founder of the school's opera Rondine. Since then she has become an inter program. He appeared this summer as Bartolo national star of the first magnitude, through in a production of The Barber of Seville con such acclaimed portrayals as the title role in ducted by Neville Marriner for the Meadow Lucchino Visconti's Spoleto production of Brook Music Festival. Manon Lescaut and the title role in the American premiere of Lulu with the Santa Fe Mr. Henrikson was a soloist in the recent Opera. premiere of Antal Dorali's In the Beginning, and has performed in Vancouver, Toronto Miss Shade's appearances with the New York and Kitchener-Waterloo as well as over the City Opera have included leading roles in CBC radio and television networks. European Susannah, Madama Butterfly, Die Tote Stadt appearances have Included Innsbruck, Vien and Mefistofele. Her performances last season na, the Bavarian State Opera In Munich and alone included a Manon Lescaut in Salzburg, the Beyreuth Festival. Thais in Avignon, Don Giovanni in Portland, Faust with the San Antonio Symphony and La FRANCISCO ORTIZ will be remembered by TraViata with the SI. Petersburg Opera. She MOT audiences as Manrico in II Trovatore was seen and heard nationally with the Boston (opposite Martina Arroyo) In 1979. A native of Pops Orchestra in a tribute to Richard Spain, he made his professional debut op Rodgers, and has just completed a summer posite Monserrat Caballe in Norma for the theatre tour in the title role of The Merry Nice Opera; last season he sang the same role Widow. for the Canadian Opera Company with Dame Joan Sutherland. ANDREW SMITH returns this season for his third MOT production, singing the role of Mr. Ortiz made his American debut in 1973 in Scarpia in three performances of Tosca. He Cavalfer!a Rusticana with the New York City received national atterition in the title role of Opera. His 1981-82 schedule includes the The Emperor Jones when MOT revived the leading tenor roles in II Trovatore, Turandot, Gruenberg opera in 1979, and returned the La Forza del Destino and In Spain, France and following season as the Count de Luna in II Columbia; he will also repeat his portrayal of Trovatore. Cavaradossi in Tosca for the opera season in Bogota. Noted as well for his oratorio and A member of the New York City Opera since recital engagements, Mr. Ortiz has also com 1977, where his appearances have included pleted several recordings of Spanish songs. La Fanciulla del West and Street Scene, Mr . Smith made his Metropolitan Opera debut in ANDREAS POULIMENOS, last season's 1978 with Britten's Billy Budd. He has also ap Don Giovanni for Michigan Opera Theatre, peared at the Met in Weill's Rise and Fall of the returns this year for two widely varied roles : City of Mahagonny. The baritone's busy the Baron Scarpla for three performances of 1981-82 schedule includes Amonasro in the Tosca and Mossl, the heroine's brother, In all Connecticut Opera's Aida and Count de Luna performances of Anoush. This is his second opposite Leontyne Price in the Met's new II season for dual appearances with MOT; he Trovatore. was Marcello In La Boheme and lionel In Joan of Arc during the fall of 1979. STEPHANIE SUN DINE makes her Mich Igan Opera Theatre debut this season in the Michigan audiences have also seen Mr. title role of Puccini's Tasca - a role she has Poulimenos, who Is on the faculty at Bowling sung with the Hawaii Opera and with the New Green University In Ohio, as Sharpless in York City Opera, including that company's re Madame Butterfly for MOT, as Don Alfonso In cent appearances at Wolf Trap. Cosi fan tutte with Michigan State University, and as Falstaff for the Opera Association of Miss Sundine's New York City Opera debut Western Michigan . He was also featured in last was as Margherita/ Elena in Boito's Mefisto April's MOT-Detroit Symphony Orchestra fe/e. She has also sung with the Opera Theatre joint production of Beethoven's Fidelia at Ford of Rochester, Des Moines Metro Opera, Fort Auditorium. Worth Opera Association, Savannah Sym-

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre phony and RICHARD whom she as I~~!lhl~r a(:~~lin;:ed Indiana University of Adriadne dual degrees in pient of grants position. A baritone, the Rockefeller FOlmdlati<)n Opera Institute. Igor,university and wasopera an t~~ea~tr~:erf~;f~~~~~~:: In addition to cOlnp,~sir1g chamber music is now writing an Lawrence's The Cleveland district politan Opera and in regional auditions in he scholarship participant in Goldov- sky Workshop in Massachusetts.

Mr. West has appeared with the Houston ~!~~~~~;F~:E;:RRIER, a native of McKeesport, Grand Opera in Otel/o, Madama Butterfly and F member ofthe 1981 Wolf Werther; he has also sung leading tenor roles \-O'fTlJ)i:m,y where he appeared in with the Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, The Rape of Lucretia Greater Miami Opera and the American while com Opera Center. He recently made a debut at in Opera at Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra Ca,rn.eaie·Pllelllon vnlVerSll'\I, he was featured in Scrlabin's Symphony No.1. pr()dUlcti

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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA Mark D. Flint, MusIc DIrector John Dlon, Personnel Manager

FIRST VIOLIN VIOLIN CELLO FRENCH HORN Helen Patricia Karakas, Concertmaster Mlnka Christoff, Principal John Dlon, Principal Randy Margllza Debra Mulder Karen Dorff Paula Klbildls Pamela Bush Mary Edwards Benedicta Gray TRUMPET James Underwood, Principal Francis Peterson DOUBLE BASS Gordon Simmons Ann Cannell Laura Sias, Principal SECOND VIOLIN Marton Wengert TROMBONE M.lIl'y Okun, Peruz Zerounlan, Principal Principal R.UTE/ PICCOLO Gregory Near Wilma Turco Pamela Hili, Principal Phyiils Fleming Helen Near HARP Una Carcone PatriCia Terry Brooke Hoplamazian OBOE/ ENGLISH HORN Irene Peterson Paul Amorello, Principal TIMPANI Jane Green Keith Claeys VIOLA Ara Zerounlan. PrincIpal CLARINET / BASS CLARINET PERCUSSION Gary Syrold Carol Ober, Principal Gregory White Margaret Lang Richard Shillea Detroit Federation of Musicians. James Greer BASSOON Local '5 A .F. of M. Pampla Dlon, Principal Victoria King

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Credits TOSCA (continued) describes the mock execution he will have to Liturgical articles courtesy of Father go through. With mounting joy the two lovers Karey and Saint Aloysius Parish, and plan their future happiness as the firing squad take up positions and Tosca jokingly warns Father Kehres and Saints Peter and Cavaradossi to "act the part." The soldiers fire Paul Parish. and leave; when the last of them is gone, Tosca tells Cavaradossi to get up, and dis covers that he is dead. Scarpia had secretly Program cover from the MOT ordered the final deception before his own 1981-82 poster, an original collage death, and the sound of approaching voices by Carol Wald, poster design by warns Tosca that the murder of the police chief has been discovered. Crying "Scarpia, we'll Louise Fili. meet before God," she jumps from the parapet to her death. -RET

Thursday, October 22, 1981

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Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre CARMEN by Georges Bizet English Performances: Oct. 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, and 24. The most popular opera ever written in a spectacular new MOT production! Carmen the passionate gypsy, Escamillo the handsome bullfighter and Don Jose the ill-fated soldier have stirred audiences throughout the world , and Bizet's rousing and beautiful music is sung, hummed, and whistled by people everywhere. Two of the foremost Carmens of our day - Victoria Vergara and Cynthia Munzer - alternate in six English perfor mances.

AN0 US H by Armen Tigranian English Performances: Oct. 30, 31; Nov. 1, 4, 6, and 7. MOT is proud to present the first production anywhere outside of the Soviet Union of this beautiful opera. So beloved in its homeland it has become the national opera of Armenia. Anoush is the passionate story of a young village maiden driven to madness by a bitter conflict between her brother and the man she is to marry. One of the major events on the national music scene this fall! "Anoush " will be presented in English, in a new translation by Armenian stage director Gerald Papasian. THE MIKADO ~~I~~:~rt& Ja"nuary 15,16,17 (mat. & eve.), 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 . . Everyone's been asking for them , and here they come - Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush and, of course Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner himself! It's MOT's first Gilbert & Sullivan, and it's about time! "The Mikado" offers an uproariously funny look at bureaucratic bungling, official pomposity and government hacks that is grand and glorious entertainment for young and old alike. Who, after all, couldn't use a dose of "Iove conquers-all " good cheer in the midst of a Michigan winter? PORGY AND BESS by George Gershwin and and DuBose Heyward January 29, 30, 31 (mat. & eve.), Feb. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Drawing on every facet of America's musical heritage - from jazz and spirituals to blues and Broadway - "Porgy and Bess" stands today among the most passionate and powerful masterworks of the century. MOT's all-new production will bring DuBose Heyward's Catfish Row to vivid , teeming life with an outstanding cast sing ing Gershwin's immortal music . PHONE ORDERS Call 963-7680 CHARGE TO YOUR • VISA • MASTER CARD GROUP SALES - Call Peg Sullivan at 963-7622 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL CTC OUTLETS

conductor Mark D. Flint

di rector Patrick Bakman Dr. David DiChiera, General Director English version presents Sheldon Harnick

GEORGES BIZET sets Pat Woodbridge for Tri-Cities Opera, CARMEN Binghamton, N . Y Opera in Four Acts lighting Robert Jared

costume! James Berton Harris for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

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musical preparation & chorus master Robert Myers

stage manager Marc Cervania

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The Scene Seville, Spain, in 1820. ACT ONE : A square in the city ACT TWO: lilias Pastia's Inn ACT THREE : October 16, 17, 18, 21. 23, & The mountains around Seville 24,1981 ACT FOUR : A square outside the arena In English

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE CAST Carmen. Victoria Vergara - October 16, 18, 24 Cynthia Munzer - October 17, 21, 23 Don Jose. Barry Busse - October 16, 18, 24 Michael BaJlam - October 17, 21 , 23 Micaela. Glenda Kirkland Escamillo . Louie Otey Morales. Michael Kohler' Frasquita. Diane Jamison' Mercedes . Kathleen Segar' Dancairo. Richard Cowan' Remendado. Peter Clegg' Zuniga. Robert Ferrier' lilias Pastia. Roland Aragona Gypsy Woman. Dale Austin Guide. Jerry Orlowski • Member, MOT Artist Intern Program

MOT Artist Interns MOT Auxiliary Chorus MOT Children's Chorus Gong Ja Cho Melanie AI Shabkhoun Karim Al Shabkhoun Peter Clegg Pat Balysh Walter AI Shabkhoun Richard Cowan Jonathan Blackshire John Dunn Robert Ferrier Gregory Bryant Peter Dunn Diane Jamison Christian Caubet Sarah Fraser Sarah Johannsen Margaret DiFranco Roy Hall Eric Johnson Donna Sue Grunewald Cathleen Heffernan Lynn Howard Meghan Heffernan Michael Kohler Thomas Howard Marcy Irving Dennis Leach Aaron Hunt Judith McClain Bryan Post Lynn Kasch Nicholas Nagrant Kathleen Segar Robert Kinnear Mary O'Connor Lee Starr Elizabeth Mar-Aston Jason Ravitz Douglas O . Wayland Vincent McCormick Jessica Ravitz Melanie Zoghby Kim Minasian Dolly Shiina Robert Morency Alisa Zak Richard Mox The Children's Ch orus Is 0 jotn' projec' 0/ Kim Phillips Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit David Reynolds Community Musfc School, 'rained by Diane Rowlands Elirobeth Eckert and Shirle y Hardin. Pat Smith Susan Stine Robert Sullivan Sue Wiley Hezekiah Williams

MOT Supers Frank Adams Richard Larison Terry Prim Stanley Beattie Robert Marcelain Jim Robertson Norman Cates Robert Paul John Rudnicki Sandra Drettman Wallace Peace Norman Smith Frank DiMercurio Rick Peterson William Soltau Richard Gerst Tony Polonski Joan Watton Joe Horvath Larry Posley Delbert West Richard Kemp Connie Wolburg

ACT ONE takes place in a public square out Dancaire and Remendado in planning a smug side a cigarette factory in the Spanish city of gling operation; but she finally decides not to Seville in the early 1800's. Soldiers are idly · participate because, she says, she is in love. watching the passers-by and waiting for their Don Jose arrives and swears his love for replacements to arrive when Micaela comes in Carmen, who offers to dance for him. When search of the corporal Don Jose. Told that he Don Jose hears the bugle and prepares to will appear for the next guard shift, she de return to barracks, however, Carmen taunts cides to leave and return later. As a band of him for being cowardly. Showing her the young street boys make fun of them, fresh flower she had thrown him two months soldiers arrive and the changing of the guard before, Don Jose assures her of his love, but proceeds. refuses to dishonorably abandon his duty by Zuniga, the Captain of the Guard, questions joining Carmen and the gypsy smugglers. Don Jose about his past and learns that he had As Don Jose is leaVing, Zuniga returns to see been forced to flee his native Navarre after kill Carmen. Finding her with Don Jose, he taunts ing a man in a duel. His mother and Micaela her for preferring a common soldier over an - whom Don Jose loves - have followed officer. Don Jose draws his sword but the gyp him to Seville and now live on the outskirts of sies prevent a fight and send Zuniga on his town . way. Having threatened his superior officer, Don Jose now has no choice but to throw in The young men of SeVille, who are not a ll ow his lot with Carmen and the thieves. ed to enter the cigarette factory, arrive to flirt with the girls coming out for a break. They ACT THREE takes plac~ in the mountains notice the absence of Carmen, who then surrounding Seville, some weeks later, as the makes a delayed entrance, warning the flirta gypsies prepare to smuggle their contraband tious men of the dangers of love. Intrigued into the city. Carmen's love for Don Jose has with Don Jose because he is the only man not cooled, but he warns her that he would kill her paying attention to her, she mockingly throws rather than let her go. When Mercedes and a flower in his face before returning to the Frasquita begin to tell fortunes, Carmen joins factory . them and sees death in the cards for both herself and Don Jose. Don Jose is about to discard the flower when Micaela returns, with a letter from his mother. The gypsies go off with some of their goods, Together they remember their home and vil leaving Don Jose behind to guard the rest. lage and happier times; Micaela leaves him Micaela arrives in search of Don Jose and alone to read the letter, promising to return . prays for protection in the wild night before ·Again Don Jose is about to throwaway hiding from the sound of gunfire. Escamillo Carmen's flower , but suddenly a fight erupts enters in search of Carmen; the enraged Don within the the factory , and he is sent to in Jose attacks him and is about to kill him when vestigate. He returns with Carmen, who has the gypsies return and break up the fight. wounded another woman with a knife . Escamillo leaves after pOintedly inviting everyone to the bullfight. Micaela, discovered Zuniga leaves the defiant Carmen, hands in hiding, tells Don Jose that his mother is near tieds, in Don Jose's custody while he seeks an death. Carmen joins her in urging Don Jose to order for her imprisonment. Carmen seduc leave to see his mother, and he fina lly agrees tively persuades Don Jose to join her at the inn - but not before he bitterly warns Carmen of her friend lilias Pastia, where they will that they will meet again . dance and drink wine and make love. He loosens her ropes, so that when Zuniga returns THE FINAL ACT is set in a square outside and orders her led to prison , she is able to the arena in Seville. Carmen arrives on the escape and Don Jose is arrested for helping arm of her new love, Escamillo, who leads the her. crowd into the bullring . Carmen is warned by Mercedes and Frasquita that Don Jose is near ACT TWO is set in lilias Pastia's tavern, two by, but she refuses to leave. months later. As the tavern closes and the soldiers prepare to leave, Zuniga reports to Left alone with Don Jose, Carmen listens as Carmen that Don Jose, who was imprisoned he begs her to take him back; cooly she ex for aiding in her escape, has been released plains that she no longer loves him, and never from jail. The men of Seville enter with the will again . When Don Jose tries to prevent her famous toreador Escamillo, who sings of his from entering the arena to be with Escamillo, prowess in the bullring and flirts with Carmen she scornfully throws in his face a ring he had before leaVing . given her. As the crowd cheers in the back ground, he stabs her to death. Carmen joins the gypsies Mercedes, Frasquita, RET.

MICHAEL BALLAM, making his Michigan CYNTHIA MUNZER, singing three perfor Opera Theatre debut this season as Don Jose mances for MOT this season in the title role of in three performances of Carmen, can already Carmen, launched her operatic career by win claim two world premieres in his young career: ning the coveted contract at the conclusion of Paradise Lost with the Chicago Lyric Opera - the 1973 Metropolitan Opera auditions. In ad in which he sang Beelzebub - and Danton dition to singing over twelve roles in her first and Robespierre for his alma mater, Indiana two met seasons in New York , she was also University. Other roles with the Chicago Lyric selected for the company's first tour of Japan Opera have included Harry in La Fanciul/a del and has appeared in the annual spring tour as West and Schmidt in Werther. well. She has sung Zerlina in Don Giouanni with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Oc With the San Francisco Opera, Mr. Ballam has tavian in Der Rosenkaua{;er for the Fort Worth appeared in La Fanciul/a, Elektra and Roberto Opera Company, and Maddalena in Rigoletto Devereux. He has also sung with the Pro vidence Opera, Pennyslvania Opera Theatre with the Dallas Civic Opera, among others. and West Virginia Opera Theatre, among Miss Munzer appeared last spring as Carmen \ others. His concert repertoire has included with the Minnesota Opera; Her concert and Damnation of Faust, Le Roi David, and recital credits include appearances with the masses by Schubert, Haydn and Beethoven. Philadelphia Symphony, the National Sym phony and the American Symphony. BARRY BUSSE (Don Jose in three perfor mances of Carmen) made a highly successful LOUIS OTEY, Escamillo in this season's MOT debut last season as the childlike Lenny Carmen, made his MOT debut last season as Small in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men. Slim in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men. He Subsequent appearances throughout the was subsequently a part of the world premiere country have included Peter Grimes with the company for Floyd's new work, Willie Stark, Dallas Civic Opera, Von Heute Auf Morgan at the Houston Grand Opera, Kennedy with the Sante Fe Opera and both Tosca and Center in Washington, D.C., and over the Nabucco for the Greater Miami Opera. national PBS television network. ·Mr. Busse created the role of Bothwell in Thea A member of the Houston Opera Studio, Mr. Musgrave's opera Mary, Queen of Scots with Otey has appeared with Opera Memphis as the Virginia Opera, and repeated it as the Silvio in I Pagliacci and Angelotti in Tosca , vehicle for his New York City Opera debut last with the Southern Opera Theatre as Dandini season. Recent concert appearances have in in Cinderella, Sharpless in Madame Butterfly cluded Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the and the father in Hansel and Gretel, and with Grand Rapids Symphony and the Verdi Re the Memphis Oratorio Society in Haydn's quiem with the Portland Symphony. Creation and Berlioz' Childhood of Christ.

GLENDA KIRKLAND, Micaela in this VICTORIA VERGARA, singing three perfor. season's production of Carmen, last appeared mances as Carmen this fall, made her first pro with MOT as Leila in another Bizet opera, The fessional appearance as the Bizet gypsy in Pearl Fishers, for the 1980 Matrix: Midland MOT's 1977 production. Since then, she has summer festival. A frequent soloist with the been acclaimed as Carmen in her native San Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Antal tiago de Chile as well as in productions for the Dorati, she was featured in the DSO produc Greater Miami Opera, Houston Grand Opera, tions of two Strauss operas, Elektra and The Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Connec Egyptian Helen. ticut Opera and Hawaii Opera Theatre. Miss Kirkland's other operatic credits include Miss Vergara debuted with the New York City Uniuersity of Michigan productions of Porgy Opera as Lola in Cauelleria Rusticana, and and Bess, Don Giouanni and Madame Butter has also appeared with the company as fly. She was recently a soloist with the Univer Maddalena in Rigoletto. Other recent roles sity of Michigan Musical Society and Sym have included Valencienne in The Merry phony in Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. Cur Widow for the Chicago Lyric Opera, Giulietta rently Assistant Professor of Voice at Eastern in Tales of Hoffmann in Pittsburgh, and the ti Michigan University, she was educated at tle role in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein Juilliard and the University of Michigan. with the Houston Grand Opera.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre PETER CLEGG is in his second year as an KATHLEEN SEGAR comes to Michigan MOT artist intern. A graduate student in voice Opera Theatre's intern program as its first re and opera at the Juilliard School in New York cipient of the $1,500 Francis Robinson Profes City, he's performed for the past three sum sional Engagement Award, whereby one mers at the Lake George Opera Festival, in young performer at the annual auditions spon cluding the role of Ruder in The Student sored by the Detroit Grand Opera Association Prince. A Falls Church, Virginia native, Mr. is granted a resident scholarship with MOT. Clegg sang in Un Ballo in Maschera, Orfeo, A student of Rosemary Russell, Miss Segar re Midsummer's Night Dream and Mozart's La ceived her bachelors and masters degrees in Finta Giardiniera at the American Opera music from the University of Michigan. In ad Theatre. dition to Singing in the 1979 Detroit Sym phony production of Elektra , she has been a RICHARD COWAN, a recent graduate of member of the Canary Island Las Palm as Indiana University in Bloomington, received Opera Festival performing Maria Sturda, Don dual degrees in vocal performance and com Giovanni, The Tales of Hoffman, Macbeth, position. A baritone, he sang the title role in a Otello and Simon Boccanegra. university opera theatre production of Prince Igor, and was an associate instructor in voice. In addition to composing orchestral pieces, MARK D_ FLINT returns for his fifth season chamber music and many songs, Mr. Cowan as Music Director of Michigan Opera Theatre is now writing an opera based on D. H. following two performances of Barber's Lawrence's The Fox. He placed first in Vanessa with the Pennsylvania Opera Festival. Cleveland district auditions for the Metro This summer, as Principal Conductor of the politan Opera and went on to take third place Lake George Opera Festival, he conducted in regional auditions in Toronto. This summer Carmen and a critically acclaimed production he was a scholarship participant in the Goldov of The Abduction from the Seraglio. Last sky Opera Workshop in Massachusetts. spring Mr. Flint made his San Francisco Opera debut conducting Romeo and Juliet, and also completed his first season as Music Director ROBERT FERRIER, a native of McKeesport, with San Francisco Opera's Western Opera Pennsylvania, was a member of the 1981 Wolf Theatre, conducting The Elixir of Love and Trap Opera Company where he appeared in Romeo. The Marriage of Figaro, The Rape of Lucretia and L'Enfant et les Sortileges. while com Immediately following this MOT season, pleting his master's degree in Opera at Maestro Flint conducts the New York City Carnegie-Mellon University, he was featured premiere of George Antheil's Transatlantic in Pittsburgh Opera productions of Carmen, with the Encompass Theatre. Winter will find Tosca, and Ariadne auf Naxos. Other opera him back in San Francisco conducting The credits include the Blossom Festival School Marriage of Figaro and La Boheme, which he Opera, the Pittsburgh Chamber Theatre, will also stage. In early May he conducts Camegie-Mellon University Opera and Du Madame Butterfly for the Dayton Civic Opera. quesne University Opera Workshop . Ferrier Later that month he will debut with the SI. 'was the winner of the 1981 Pittsburgh District Louis Opera conducting their opening produc Metropolitan Opera Auditions. tion of The Elixir of Love. Next summer he will return to Lake George and Chautauqua, where he will offer Blitzstein's Regina. Late DIANE JAMISON has sung some of opera's summer will find him in Rochester for The choicest female roles , including Mimi and Barber of Seville and in Pittsburgh for The Musetta in La Boheme and Micaela in Carmen Crucible and The Rape of Lucretia. with the Arizona Lyric Touring Company; Madame Flora and Monica in The Medium with the Memphis Opera; and Violetta in La PATRICK BAKMAN, stage director for Traviata as well as the title role of Manon with MOT's production of Carmen this season, the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Arkan began his professional career in 1972 by stag sas. A Pittsburgh resident presently completing ing Carlisle Floyd's Susannah for the New her doctorate at Duquesne University, she was York City Opera; he has since directed The awarded a National Association of Teachers of Magic Flute and The Ballad of Baby Doe for Singing scholarship early in her career. the same company, with the latter production also featured on a nationwide telecast. MICHAEL RICHARD KOHLER, who A former resident stage director for the Univer holds a B.S. degree in Music Education from sity of Michigan, Mr . Bakman's recent opera Lebanon Valley College, is presently a credits include La Boheme and Starbird for graduate teaching assistant at Bowling Green Texas Opera Theatre; Faust, Pasatieri's The State University in Ohio. There his roles have Goose Girl and Barab's Chanticleer for the included Morales in Carmen, Tancred in Fort Worth Opera, and Lucia di Lammermoor Padrevia and John Sorel in The Consul. for the San Diego Opera . He has also worked Among his musical theatre credits are leading extensively for the Houston Grand Opera, roles in Brigadoon, Camelot, Carousel and Colorado Opera Festival and Lake George Once Upon a Mattress. Opera Festival.

Administration Production Staff Dr. David DlChlera, General Director Mark D. Flint, Director, Young Artist's Program Karen DIChlera , Director 0/ Educahon Marilyn Rennagel, Lighting Consultant John P. Finck, Director of Productions Robert Murphy, Technical Director Richard A. Johnson, Director of Finance Elizabeth Eckert, Producllon Admlnistralor Stephanie T. Ott·O'TooJe. Director of Development Peggy Imbrie, Produclion Stage Manager R. Edward Townley, Director of Public Relations & Ulla Heninger, Costume Superuisor Marketing Steven Horak, Make-up and Wig Master Marc Cervania, Stage Manager Ken Cazan, As.sistant Stage Manager Abe Malus, Master Carpenter David Sugar. Master Flyman Administrative Staff Torn Bryant, Master Electrician Elizabeth Eckert, Asslstanl to the DIrector oj Productions Jack Brock, Stage Properties Head Toni Gillespie, Assistant to the Director of Education William M'ArchMcCarty, Property Master Mimi Mayer, Assistant to the DIrector of Public Relations Frances Cameron MacRae, As.sjstant Lighting Designer Deborah MIcallef, Assistant to the Director of Development Nicholas John Mozak, Wardrober Master Jerry Nardecchta, Assistant to the Director of Finance Jeff Nahan, Movement Instructor Gordon Ostrowski, Marketing Assistant Stage Employees Local '38 IATSE Maggie Porter, Receptionist Betty Ann Schneider I Assistant to the General Director Production Interns Marlon B. Solomon, 90stumlng Catherine Wesolowski, Costuming Joe Bascetta, Directing Music Staff Rebecca Watson, Make-up Mark D. flint, Music Director Richard Hancock, Production/ Music Administration George Darden, Cooch/ Accompanist Suzanne Acton, Public Relal/ons/ Marketing Robert Myers, Chorus Moster Jeff Oren, Stage Management . 'John Dlon. Orchestra Personnel Manager Brian Plunkett, Technical Mk hael KraJewski, Musical Assistant Scott Ignaszewskl, Technical

MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA Mark O. Flint, Music Director John Olon, Personnel Manager

FIRST VIOLIN VIOLIN CELLO ~"RENCH HORN Helen Patricia Karakas, Concertmaster Minka Christoff, Principal John Dian, Principal. Randy Margitza Debra Mulder Karen Dorff Paula Klbtldls Pamela Bush TRUMPET Mary Edwards Benedicta Gray James Underwood, Principal Francis Peterson DOUBLE BASS Gordon Simmons Ann Cannell Laura S.las, Principal TROMBONE SECOND VIOLIN Marlon Wengert Maury Okun, Principal Peruz Zerounian, Principal FLUTE/PICCOLO Gregory Near WIlma Turco Pamela Hill , Principal PhylliS Fleming HARP Helen Near Una Carcone Patricia Terry Brooke Hoplamaztan OBOE/ENGLISH HORN TIMPANI Irene Peterson Paul Amorello, Princfpal Keith Claeys Jane Green VIOLA Ara Zerounlan, Principal CLARINET / BASS CLARINET PERCUSSION Gregory White Gary Syroid Carol Ober! Principal Margaret Lang Richard Shillea Detroil Federation of Musicians, James Greer BASSOON Local '5 A.F. of M Pamela Dian, Principal Victoria King

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre Dancers Production Credits Delphine Latka Jeffrey Oren Christine Scott Assistant stage manager Virginia D. Patton Assistant to Mr. Harris Off-Stage Banda Frances Cameron MacRae (from Detroit Community Music Schoo/) Assistent to Mr. Jared

trumpets Mime assistance from Jerry the Fool, Mime Kevin Adams Troupe. Mike Flegg Flowers for Miss Vergara and Miss Munzer courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Katz and Mr. trombones Dauid Domutz. Harmon Nine MOT gratefully acknowledges properties Jeanne Prevost assistance from DuMouchelle Galleries and Kevin Slayden from Father Karey and Saint Aloysius Parish.

Thursday, October 22, 1981

co(1\e For the Benefit of the 22 iO e Michigan Opera Theatre D G'eat c05tO~l

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre AN0 US H by Armen Tigranian English Performances: Oct. 30, 31; Nov. 1, 4, 6, and 7. MOT is proud to present the first production anywhere outside of the Soviet Union of this beautiful opera. So beloved in its homeland it has become the national opera of Armenia, Anoush is the passionate story of a young village maiden driven to madness by a bitter conflict between her brother and the man she is to marry . One of the major events on the national music scene this fall! "Anoush" will be presented in English, in a new trans lation by Armenian stage director Gerald Papasian .

THE MIKADO ~~I~!I:~rt & January 15,1'6,17 (mat. & eve.), 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23. Everyone's been asking for them, and here they come - Nanki-Poo , Yum-Yum, Pooh Bah, Pish-Tush and, of course , Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner himself! It's MOT's first Gilbert & Sullivan , and it's about time! "The Mikado" offers an uproariously funny look at ,bureaucratic bungling, official pomposity and government hacks that is grand and glorious entertainment for young and old alike. Who, after all, couldn't use a dose of ' " love-conquers-all" good cheer in the midst of a Michigan winter? PORGY AND BESS by George Gershwin and and DuBose Heyward January 29, 30, 31 (mat. & eve.), Feb . 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Drawing on every facet of America's musical heritage - from jazz and spirituals to blues and Broadway - "Porgy and Bess" stands today among the most passionate and power ful masterworks of the century. MOT's all-new production will bring DuBose Heyward's Catfish Row to vivid, teeming life with an outstanding cast singing Gershwin's immortal music . PHONE ORDERS Call 963-7680 CHARGE TO YOUR • VISA • MASTER CARD GROUP SALES - Call Peg Sullivan at 963-7622 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL CTC. OUTLETS ---

Dr. David D1Chiera, General Director

presents

The American Premiere / of

ARMEN TIGRANIAN'S

costume design by Marjorie McCown

conductor RafH Armenian

director & translator Gerald E. Papasian

Hagop Chlarrlouian

sets Franco Colavecchia

costumes Marjorie McCown

lighting Marilyn Rellnagel

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musical preparation wigs & George Darden Steven

chorus master production stage manager Robert Imbrie

CAST

Anoush .... Ellen KerrHJan October 30, November 1, 6 Diane l1arcJ,IY - October November 4, 7 Sara .... Vincenzo Manno - October November 1, 6 Evan Bortnick October 31, NovernbE~r 4, 7 Andreas Poulimenos Anoush's Mother. .. Kathleen Sara's Mother .... Mara Partamian Village Elder.. . Robert Ferrier' Best Man ... Post' Ohan .... Richard Cowan' Village Watchman. Douglas Wavland' First Girl. Kim Minasian Second Girl. ... Lee Starr' Third Girl. .. Ja Cho' Fourth Girl .... Sarah Johannsen' Fifth Girl .... Karen Guettler

M~~ml)er, MOT Artist Intern Program

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre young girls sing a song to the river, gel1er.al merriment, Sara and asking if it passed their future loves in agree to entertain the with a its wanderings through the moun wrestling match. tains. They fill their water jugs and caught up in the excitement of the Anoush is set in the then sit by the fountain happily sing match and shOWing off to his beloved mountain village of rhymed couplets about sad and Anoush, forgets the traditional rules rooted in the traditions of unreclui1ed love. The worried voice and defeats Mossy, thus hUlniliatirlg who inhabit that harsh and be':lutituJ mother sounds a him in front of the entire land. her daughter to Enraged, Mossy vows revenge as The young girl Anoush lives with her terrified sister looks on helplessly. mother and brother, Mossy. As the prE~monitic;ns of misfortune In Act Three Mossy angrily refuses to opera opens it is spring, and Anoush are intlmsmed festival forgive Sara for the accidental insult. is feeling a restless she The Sara and Anoush, realizing that they scarcely understands. From a dis then will never be allowed to marry and tance can be heard the voice of wrestling will, in fact, be forbidden to see each the young shepherd who is Mossy's to other, run off together into the best friend, singing about the beauty strict custom, must in draws so mountains. of Anoush. that no one is humiliated Some months later, Anoush in- As Anoush's worried mother orders frant of his friends. The to the village hoping to a her to inside and ignore the young want Sara and Mossy to WI<~::>LJ'''', reconciliation while Sara, knowing boy, appears to continue his Mossy declines. that is still to kill serenade in person. When he After the men have left, the young in hills above the village. Anoush describes to her mother the girls begin their traditional holiday finds Sara and kills him with a heartache and sadness she of tens fortune-telling. Anoush's fortune in· thn::>uclh the confirming for no reason. Hop- dicates that her lover will die, shot pro,ph,ecv of Act One. When his to cheer she decides to thraugh the heart; despite the other Anoush the down the maidens' efforts to calm her, she ex hill to the the village claims that a curse laid on her as a child has been confirmed. RET At the fountain the banks of the Act Two opens as the Village gathers River Anoush arrives as the for a wedding. Carried away by the

Auxiliary Chorus MOT Artist Interns Anoush Dancers Melanie AI Shabkhoun Ja Cho choreographer and Pat Balysh Peter Clegg principal dancer ~,.o,n .....'·" Bryant Richard Cowan Hagop Chamourian Christian Caubet Robert Ferrier Charles Furchak Diane Jamison Donald Gallop Sarah Johannsen Paulette Brc)ckinglton Lynn Howard Eric Johnson Christopher J. lVI\..vaIUt~1l Thomas Howard Michael Kohler Jacqueline Melkonian Lynn Kasch Dennis Leach Mona Misirliyan Robert Kinnear Post Ann Sarkis Satning Margaret Lafian Gary Slivinski Elizabeth Mar-Aston Lee Starr Andrew Wizniuk Vincent McCormick LJUU!:jl.:l::> O. Waylarld Kim Minasian Richard Max Kim Phillips Ray Roberts Anoush Children Diane Rowlands Sarah Fraser Pat Smith Nicholas Naar;:mt Susan Stine Suzanne Nagrant Robert Sullivan David Parrish Sue Wiley Hezekiah Williams

Profiles Diane Barclay Evan Bortnick Ellen Kerrigan Vlncenzo Manno

DIANE BARCLAY, singing the title Francisco Opera production of Miss Partamian was recently acclaim role in three performances of Anoush, Strauss's Elektra; just one month ed as Ulrica in the American Opera is making her Michigan Opera later, she replaced an ailing Monserrat Center's production of A Masked Theatre debut in this American Caballe as Elisabetta in Roberto Ball. She has appeared in concert at premiere production. She recently Devereux for the same company and Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall sang Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and scored an enormous success with San in New York, the Performing Arts Adina in The Elixir of Love on the Francisco audiences and critics. Society of Philadelphia and the Western Opera Theatre's 1981 tour, Musee Guimet in Paris. She has won A 1978 Grand Finals winner in the which included several appearances awards in vocal competitions in in Michigan. San Francisco Opera auditions, Miss Paris, Barcelona and New York . Kerrigan has sung the title role in Miss Barclay has also sung Violetta in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina in La Traviata and Rosalinda in Die The Magic Flute, Marie in The ANDREAS POULIMENOS, last Fledermaus with Western Opera Daughter of the Regiment and Per season's Don Giovanni for Michigan Theatre. With the Lake George dita in the world premiere of Harbi Opera Theatre, returns this year for Opera Festival she has appeared as son's Winter's Tale. Recital credits for two widely varied roles: the Baron Kathie in The Student Prince, Zerlina the young soprano include Haydn's Scarpia for three performances of in Don Giovanni and Valencienne in Creation and Purcell's The Fairy Tosca and Mossy, the heroine's The Merry Widow. Concert appear Queen. brother, in all performances of ances have included Handel's Dettin Anoush. This is his second season for gen Te Deum and Woollen's In VINCENZO MANNO, making his dual appearances with MOT; he was Martyrum Memoriam with the MOT debut this season as Saro in Marcello in La Boheme and Lionel in Chicago Symphony, as well as Anoush, is a Cleveland-born tenor Joan of Arc during the fall of 1979. Chicago's nationally televised Do-It who began his professional career in Michigan audiences have also seen Yourself Messiah. She was the recip Europe after receiving a Fullbright Mr. Poulimenos, who is on the faculty ient of a recent grant from the Martha Fellowship to study at the renowned at Bowling Green University in Ohio, Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. Institute of Saint Cecilia in Rome. A as Sharpless in Madame Butterfly for former member of La Scala Opera MOT, as Don Alfonso in Cosi fan EVAN BORTNICK, who will be training program, he was engaged for tutte with Michigan State University, portraying Saro in three performances four years by the Italian-Swiss radio and as Falstaff for the Opera Associa of Anoush for MOT this season, and television ; during that time he tion of Western Michigan. He was made his professional debut as also appeared with the Opera Co also featured in last April's MOT Rodolfo in La Boheme with the mique in Paris, international festivals Detroit Symphony Orchestra joint Hidden Valley Opera and the Lake in Dubrovnik, Bologna and Como, production of Beethoven's Fidelio at George Opera Festival before joining and recitals throughout Europe. Ford Auditorium. the Minnesota Opera, where his roles included two world premieres: the Mr. Manno is now establishing an outstanding reputation in the United title role in Christopher Columbus and KATHLEEN SEGAR comes to States through appearances as Carlo Cherubino in Rosina. A graduate of Michigan Opera Theatre's intern pro in Verdi's Giovanna D'Arco for the the Oberlin Conservatory, he has gram as its first recipient of the Boston Opera, Titus in La Clemenza appeared with the Houston Grand $1,500 Francis Robinson Profes di Tito for San Francisco Spring Opera, Texas Opera Theatre, Glim sional Engagement Award, whereby Opera and concert appearances in merglass Festival and Lyric Opera of one young performer at the annual Toronto singing Beethoven's Ninth Kansas City, among others. auditions sponsored by the Detroit Symphony and Verdi's Requiem. Last season Mr. Bortnick's schedule Grand Opera Association is granted a resident scholarship with MOT. included The Gypsy Baron at Glim MARO PARTAMIAN, singing the merglass, Elixir of Love and La Belle role of Saro's mother in MOT's A student of Rosemary Russell, Miss Helene in Kansas City and Don American premiere production of Segar received her bachelors and Giovanni in Annapolis. His MOT Anoush , trained at the Boston Con masters degrees in music from the debut this season will be followed by a servatory of Music and the American University of Michigan. In addition to Pirates of Penzance with the Augusta Opera Center at Juilliard. She has singing in the 1979 Detroit Sym Opera and Die Fledermaus in Mobile. previously appeared with Michigan phony production of Elektra , she has Opera Theatre as Adah in Naughty been a member of the Canary Island ELLEN KERRIGAN, making her Marietta ; she has also worked locally Las Palm as Opera Festival perform MOT debut in the title role of with the Detroit Symphony, Windsor ing Maria Sturda, Don Giovanni, Anoush, began her career in 1979 as Symphony, Toledo Symphony and The Tales of Hoffman, Macbeth, Klytemnestra's trainbearer in a San the Detroit Schola Cantorum. Otello and Simon Boccanegra.

'--______~ ;;;--~~ --...... ;; ~ ______J Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre GERALD PAPASIAN, Little Vixen, As 1981-82 GONG JA CHO, a Korean now tor and translator for MOT's Director of Design and Production in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, is production of Anoush, for the Philadelphia company, he will master's work in voice at trained for the theatre at the Erevan be Puccini's II Tabarro and Wayne University. Since arriv- (Armenia) State Fine and Dramatic Gianni Rossini's Mose and in the United States in 1980, Miss Arts Institute in the USSR; he studied Mozart's The 0/ Figaro, has won a $500 scholarship in opera direction at both the Moscow Other credits in the States in- the Oakway Symphony's Young and Theatre clude work with the Folger Theatre, Artists competition, performed in After seasons with the Armen- New England Wolf Samson and Dalila at Madonna ian Theatre Company in Opera, and and sung oratoria with the Egypt, he became director of the he also designed for Wayne State Orchestra. Armenian Theatre Club in London. Duchess Theatre and the Wexford RICHARD COWAN After a season acting and directing and graduate of Indiana with several companies in Mr. Bloomington, received dual U"'~{'''''''' came to the United in vocal performance and composi- Director of the Ardavazt tion. A baritone, he the title role in Los MARILYN RENNAGEL, designing in a university produc- As an actor, was recently involved the for Anoush and Mikado as tion of Prince and was an in the film ASSignment Berlin, which well as serving as Consultant associate instructor in voice. In addi- was shot in Detroit the past for the overall season, will be tion to orchestral summer. remembered by MOT patrons for her chamber music many songs, Mr. work on Don Giovanni, Joan 0/ Arc, Cowan is now an and Jl Trovatore. In Miami she design- based on D. H. Lawrence's The RAFFI ARMENIAN, who is con ed lighting for and La He placed first in Cleveland district ducting MOT's premiere production Del West in Dallas she auditions for the Metropolitan of has been musical director Aida, The and went on to take third in of the Symphony Manon, La Traviata auditions in Toronto. This for the past ten A graduate of States of summer he was a partici the Vienna of Music and Orlando Fur/oso. This season in pant in the Goldovsky Opera Work recipient of the top award at the Dallas Ms. will begin work shop in Massachusetts. International Conductors on a project of tion, he also served for four seasons four years. ROBERT FERRIER, a native of as music director of Canada's Strat McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was a ford Festival. Ms. Rennagel is currently roniTo<:onto member of the 1981 Wolf Trap Maestro Armenian made his debut on Broadway with Woman of the Company where he appeared with the Canadian Opera Year. Other Broadway productions IVHITTf(lfW of Figaro, The in 1975 with Die Fledermaus; other include Tennessee Williams' Clothes 0/ Lucretia L'Enfant et les Sor with the COC have in a Summer Peter Allen tileges. While completing his master's The Marriage of Figaro, Don in and She has in opera at Carnegie-Mellon La Traviata, The Barber created lighting for such enter- he was featured in Pitts Seville and a highly acclaimed pro tainers as Rod Stewart, Preston, ucHons of duction of Berg's Wozzeck He has Linda Ronstadt and and Ariadne allf been conductor with the orche- and was recently Lighting credits include Ottawa, and for Manilow's World School Opera, and under the Tour. She has the the Pittsburgh Chamber Theatre, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony has designer for Frank Egan's Carnegie-Mellon Opera toured extenSively throughout Announcement Show for three years, and Duquesne Opera Canada, Western Europe and the Workshop. Ferrier was the winner of Soviet Union. MARJORIE McCOWN, who the 1981 District Metro created all the costumes for Anoush, politan Opera is a graduate of the University of FRANCO COLAVECCHIA, set Virginia and the Fashion Institute of KAREN MUNN a designer for Anoush, will be New York. She has cos- veteran of MOT's Overture to Opera remembered by MOT as the tumes for a variety of dance Company, portrayed the Governess of Regina in 1977. He and productions as as for in a premiere production of Fair both sets and costumes for many commercials. Means or Foul, by the eminent Grand Opera produc creator of children's opera Miss McCown has worked with the Barab. She has also the tion of Treemonisha, including its Katherine Kohler Dance Broadway run, other credits with the Grand New York, and designed Ms. Guettler has Houston include The for the New York Opera's Vagabond King, and Gretel done extensive solo work as a national tour of I She is member of the Kenneth Jewell and the American of currently involved in American Handel's Rinaldo, Chorale, the Plymouth premiere production of and choirs of the For the Opera Company of Phila Anthiel's "Trans-Atlantic" at New Cranbrook and the Lutheran Church delphia, Mr. Colavecchia has de York which of the Redeemer, She signed sets and costumes for Rum MOT Music will is a member of the Com- pelstiltskin, The Magic Flute and The conduct. munity voice faculty.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre SARAH JOHANNSEN was recent ly associated with the Lake Opera Festival, where she norin.rrrlt;ul in the premiere of Sorry, Wrong M Ie AN Number and covered Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly. She first sang the latter role, as weJl as roles in The o p A Crucible and with the IHinois Opera Theater working on her master's and doctorate in music at the of Illinois, T E R E Urbana. Miss Johannsen has also in with the Production Staff Opera and the Moines Metro Summer Festival of Opera.

KIM MINASIAN, who appears P.<,Qvlmllfie. Production Stege Manager Relalions & Costume the First Girl in Anoush, in her Steven Horak, Make-up second year as a member of MOT's Matc Cervania, Stage Manager Ken Assistant Stage Manager Overture to Opera where Abe Malus, Master Carpenter her roles include the David Sugar, MOSler Flyman Tom Master Electrician Barab's Fair Means or Jack Brock, PrOperties Head from the William Propert!) Mosler Frances Cameron Assistant Designer 1978, the Nicholas John Moz.ak, Wardrober Master as a soloist the Ken- Jeff Nahan. Movement instructor OSlrowski, Marketing Assistant S'age Employees Local "38 IATSE Jewel Chorale and the Alexan Porler, Receptionist dria Arts Chorale. Miss Minasian is Schneider. Assislant to rhe General Director Production Interns also a member of the National Lyric Marion B. Solomon, Coswmfng Calherine Wesolowski, Cos/uming Opera and currently Joe Bascet1a, studies with Windham. Rebecca Watson. Richard Hancock. ProdudionlMusic Administration Suzanne Acton, Public Relations/Marketing BRYAN POST, a lyric tenor, recent Myers. Jeff Oren, Dion, Orchestra Personnel Manager ly received his masters in opera Michael Krajewski, MUSical AssislaTlt theatre from the Oberlin Conser vatory of Music in Ohio. A three-time winner of National Association of Teachers of regional competi- MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA tions, he has voice at Oberlin Mark O. Flint, Music Director since 1979. He's leading roles in John 0101'1, Personnel Manager musical theater and productions at Oberlin, Ohio and FIRST VIOLIN VIOLIN CEllO r"RENCH HORN Winter Park, Florida. Helen Patricia Karakas, Concertmaster Minka Christoff, Principal John Dion, Principal Debra Mulder Karen P.mel. Bush Benedicta Gray TRUMPET LEE STARR, of Columbus, Ohio, James Underwood, Principal won the Kramer Scholarship DOUBLE BASS Gordon SJmmons Laura Sias, Principal to attend University, SECOND VIOLIN Marion Wengert Maury Principal but chose to join MOT's Artist Intern Perul Zerounian, PrinCIpal Wilma Turco R.UTE/PICCOLO Gregory Near orc,qri'lm. She was awarded a $1,000 Pamela Hill, Principal PhyllIS Helen Near HARP sdlol<~rsJ'1ip from the Musical Patricia Terry '-'VJIJ"'~"', and performed Ballad of Brooke Hoplamazian OBOEI ENGLISH HORN irene Paul Amorello, Principal TIMPANI at Ohio State Jane Green Keith Claeys work on her VIOLA Ara Zerounian, Principal CLARINET IBASS CLARINET PERCUSSION Gregory White In January she'll begin Gary Syroid Carot Principei work in Bowling Green State Margaret Lang Richard Delroit Federaiion of MUSicians, James Greer Unive:rsi1tv's opera program, for which BASSOON Local '5 A.F. of M Dion, Princip

Production Special Thanks DOUGLAS WAYLAND is r"",rontl" Scenery __ .____ ._.__ , a master's candidate at Adirondack A/bany. NY. Green State University in Costume Kevin Translation Assistance where he received his bachelor's in Johanna Forte Ara Berberlan Mardlglan music magna cum laude. He has Ulla HeWnger Bowes Emma Minasian Opai Hairston St. John's Armenian Church sung leading roles in over 20 pro Genevieve Pa!czynski Lucine Sarkislan Club Percy Sarkisian ductions, including The Mikado, Chief Culle' Nadya VapQrclyan Carmen, The Magic Flute, The Con- Candace Chase and the children and Harry Berberian' sul, Albert Madame Butter- Hasrnig Imirzian, Allee Haidostlan and fly, Noyes Gianni Schicchi ~~:~~~~J~~~~~~S ,,, Ara Berberian and The MClrri''loe

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre works and had done a great deal to got the rules of a wrestling match. collect and preserve native folk Furthermore, while Tigranian could music. When Tigranian began to assume that his audience knew and compose Anoush in 1908, he was sympathized with the extreme impor on his way to creating an enduringly tance of family and community Any American music lover has the popular national opera rooted in approval of an individual's behavior, opportunity to hear the major works both sources. He had received his we might find it hard to understand of the western European operatic formal training at the conservatory in why Anoush and Saro (who even get repertoire on recordings; those fortu Tbilisi, where he sJudied the theory married in the original poem) cannot nate enough to live in or travel to a of composition under Nikolay Sem go away and live together happily city with a thriving cultural life may yonovich Klenovsky, who had him ever after. In our version, the two are also be able to see them performed. self studied under Tchaikovsky. After not married when they run to the But there are equally musical, dra graduating in 1901, Tigranian began mountains, and Mossy's desire for matic, and passionate works that, by a career as a choral director and vengeance can be linked to his con accident of language or national teacher. The inspiration for Anoush cern for his sister's honor as well as to origin, stand outside the mainstream and the circumstances of its first per his own humiliation and outraged of Italian, French, and German formance are described in a memoir traditionalism. In other words, the opera. It is possible that only a dedi Tigranian wrote in 1948. broad outlines of family honor, com munity codes, and a strongly patriar cated opera buff knows their names, I read Hovhannes Toumanian's [poeml and chances are that he or she has "Anoush" for the first time in 1907, chal system are present in both the never actually heard them. The per and from that time on the great poet Armenian and the English librettos, became dear to me. I decided to write formance of any generally unfamiliar but one might put it that the original the opera Anoush. I corresponded with version deals with these concepts in a opera therefore is a noteworthy the poet until I finally met him person event. If the opera in question is also ally in 1913. In 1912 we had perform subtler and less explicit way. We a fine representative of a distinctive ed the opera . .. with local talent in must be able to look beyond the culture and its traditions, the pro Alexandropol [present -day actual incidents and contemplate Leninakanl. . .. The performance their reflections of deeply felt Arme duction is doubly significant. brought about great interest ... which was understandable, since the poem nian folk morality and pride. I feel particularly privileged to have . .. enjoyed such great popularity. I felt been involved in bringing the first the artistic success of the great poet, Certain other changes have been English-language production of and that day became a holiday for me . made for purely dramatic and . . . almost all of Hovhannes Touoma theatrical reasons. When Tigranian Anoush, the most important work of nian's works can be put to music, the Armenian composer Armen because they are so inspiring and divided Toumanian's poem into five Tigranian, to the American stage. sonorous. . .. In 1933, fifteen years acts, he seems to have been as much For a long time I have believed that ago, the great poet's lyre became silent, interested in presenting different Detroit, given its generous mixture of but his writings remain. Today our new aspects of peasant life as he was in generation has every opportunity to developing a sustained dramatic pro nationalities and an enthusiastic use Toumanian's works, to study them musical community, is a naturalloca and to create new works and new gression and theatrical climax. I felt tion for the Michigan Opera Theatre talents for our homeland. that a sense of continuity would be to mount a series of major national better served if Acts 1 and 2 were istic operas. The very nature of opera What Tigranian modestly did not say combined to set up the dramatic enables the audience to experience a was that the popularity of his opera situation. The original Act 3 thus panorama of the cultural elements stems in great part from the lyrical became a presentation of a wedding that distinguish one nationality from and dramatic qualities of his own scene - though not that of Anoush another. Anoush provides a stimulat music. Combining the forms of and Saro - with its dances and ing and moving introduction to the western opera with the melodic and customs climaxed by the fateful dances, music, visual arts, literature, modal traditions of Armenian music, wrestling match. Tigranian's Acts 4 and customs that constitute the and making skillful use of his back and 5 have become our Act 3, Armenian heritage. In this way ground in choral directing, he gave enabling the audience to experience Anoush bridges the gap between the the world a unique masterpiece. the death of Saro and Anoush's des culture of the Armenian homeland cent from despair into suicide as an In preparing our English-language and the musical and cultural conven increasingly intense emotional pro Anoush, I have made some large gression. tions better known to most American scale changes in the original with the audiences. intention of making it more readily Present and future audiences will Armen Tigranian himself was con understandable to modern American make the final judgment on the suc scious of his role as a continuator and audiences. The central dramatic cess of Anoush in its new dress, but I a conservator of music and customs. situation - the story of lovers who know that all of those who have As a professional composer, he are trapped and destroyed by the worked to present it share my gratifi knew that the foundations of his craft conflicting demands of rigid socia[ cation at bringing an Armenian na were laid both in Armenian folk song codes and their own passions - is tional classic onto another stage. and in the various genres of Euro immediately affecting to any group. pean art music. By the last quarter of On the other hand, it must seem From the preface to the ANOUSH the nineteenth century, Armenian somewhat strange to a contemporary English libretto, published by Wayne composers had written an impressive American audience that the lovers State University Press, 1981 . variety of European-influenced must die because a young man for- David DiChiera

L..-______~...... -- ~~ -...... ,;;:~, ______---J Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre SPECIAL I Dr. and Mrs. Hamazasp B. Darian Judge Y. Gladys Barsamian Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haboian Mrs. Rose Baykian Mr. and Mrs . Dicran B. Haidostian Mr. and Mrs. Jirayr Bedikyan Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Harlan Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Boutrous David and Joan Hill Mr. and Mrs. Steve Boyajian ~""O~SJ1 David and Cynthia Hudgins Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cornelius SUPPORT FUND Kirk and Hasmig Imirzian Mr. and Mrs . Harry Corrigan Mr. and Mrs. Simon Javizian Miss Rose Dabanian Mr. and Mrs. Alex J . Jemal, Jr. Miss Christine A. Derdarian Mr. and Mrs. John T. Kalkanian , Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Derderian Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Kaye Miss Kay Doumanian General Director's Circle Dr. and Mrs. Harry Kerns Mr. and Mrs . Peter Egigian Detroit Armenian Women's Club Mr. and Mrs. Richard Keramedjian Dr. and Mrs . Walter Flagg Mr . and Mrs. Paul Kullukian Mr. and Mrs . Mark D. Gavoor (California) Mr. and Mrs. Masis Godoshian Benefactors Miss Louise Kushigian Dr. and Mrs . E. Stephen Gurdjian Mr. and' Mrs. Michael Assarian Mr. and Mrs . Zaven Lucas Mr. and Mrs . Richard Gurunian Mr. and Mrs. Kevork Avetissian (New York) Dr. and Mrs. Edward T. Manis Mrs. Rachel Haroutunian Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barberian (Florida) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Megerian Mr. and Mrs. Mardiros Hatcherian Mr. and Mrs. George J. Bedrosian Mr. and Mrs. Norman P. Messelian Mr. and Mrs. Tony Iafrate Mr. and Mrs. Ara Berberian Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mouradian Mr. and Mrs. John Kalajian Mr. Harry Berberian Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mouradian Dr. Michael Kaprielian Cultural Society of Armenians from Istanbul Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nazarian Siroon Karapetoff Mr. and Mrs. George A, Googasian Mr. and Mrs. Walter Opalka Mr. and Mrs . Adam S. Karibian Dr. and Mrs. Berj H. Haidostian (Hamilton, Ontario) Mrs. Armen Kasabach Dr. and Mrs. George Kadian Miss Violet Oulbegian Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Kazanjian Mr. and Mrs . Marderus Kadian Mrs. Sarah C. Paklaian Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kezelian Mr. and Mrs. Charles Manoogian Mr. and Mrs. Charles S . Palaian Mrs . Mary Khezarjian Mr. and Mrs . George Manoogian Mr. and Mr.s. Richard Vahe Papelian Edward Krikorian and son. Kirk Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mardigian Ruth and Bob Saks Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sarkisian Mrs. Edward Sarafian Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J . Macksey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Karl P. Sogoian Mr. and Mrs. Arshag Oscar Sarjanian Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Marburger Mr. and Mrs. Hagop G . Vanerian Mr. and Mrs . Percy W. Sarkisian Mr. and Mrs . Arthur Mardigian Anonymous Shar Products Company Mrs . Azniv Melekian Mr. and Mrs. Irving Slotnick Miss Sirvart A. Mezian Sustainers Alfred and Balig Stein Miss Teryl L. Minasian Rev. Fr. Paren Avedikian (British Columbia) Dr . and Mrs. Ara Paul Dr. and Mrs. Garabed Belian Mrs. Armenouhi Varbedian Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Prudian Mr. Robert Benian (California) Mr. and Mrs. Noray Sarkisian Mrs. Lillian V. 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Harry Zartarian Mrs. Zabelle Atesian Dr. Michael and Christine Garry, Jr. Contributors Mr. and Mrs. Haig Avedisian (Illinois) Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Arakelian (Indiana) Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hagopian Mr. and Mrs. Archie Gopigian Mrs. Sophie Arakelian Mrs. Nvart S. Hampikian-Alexanian Professor and Mrs . Joseph Hovanesian Mrs. Luella Baron Edward, Susan and Krista Haroutunian Diran and Ardemis Kalousdian Mr. and Mrs. Karl Couyoumjian Mr. and Mrs . Mihran G. Hoplamazian Mr. A. L. Kassabian Mr. and Mrs . Robert C . Jacobs Mr. Souren Hovsepian Mr. and Mrs. Haig H . Kazazian (Ohio) Mr . and Mrs. Robert Kachadourian Karson Tool Company Mr. and Mrs. Edward S . Mardigian, Jr. Mr. and Mrs . Abraham Kalajian Dr . and Mrs . Harold R. Marderosian Mrs. Rose Nikolic Mrs. A. F. Kammer, III Mrs. Paul Mazloumian Oasis Mart Mr . and Mrs . Hayk Kayayan Hrant and Louise Melikian Mrs. Margaret Paulian Mrs. Rose Nahabedian Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Minasian Dr. and Mrs . John Peterson Mrs. Elizabeth B. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Cross Mooradian Leo D. Phillips and Co. Mr . and Mrs . Zory Sarkisian Mr. and Mrs . George Mugerian Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Pokorny Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tutelian (Ohio) Mr. and Mrs. Osep Saraf Mr . and Mrs. Arsen Sanjian Vahan's Clothing Mr. Daniel Shahan Mrs. Huguette S . Sirianni Dr. and Mrs. Armen Shekerjian Dr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian A Friend Mr. and Mrs. Richard Torley ANOUSH Support Fund Anonymous Mrs. Nooritza Vart (Pennsylvania) Contributor 'Categories Mr. and Mrs. Arpo Yemen $5,700 General Director's Circle Patrons Dr. and Mrs. Gary Zamanigian Mr. and Mrs. Walter Akkashian $1,000 Benefactors Dr. Ashod Raffi Aprahamian Friends $500 Sustalners Mr . and Mrs. Robert V. Arabian Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aginian $200-$300 Sponsors Mr . and Mrs. John Bahadurian Mr. and Mrs. Souren Aprahamian $100 Pauons Mrs. Maxim Bahadurian Mr. and Mrs. Haig Arabian $50-$75 Donors Dr. Edward D. Bayleran Mr. and Mrs. Sam Armoudlian $25-$35 Friends Mr. and Mrs. Berge Paul Avesian Mr. and Mrs. George Benian $5-20 Conulbutors Mr. and Mrs. Martin H. Cholakian Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bagramian

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presents GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S THE MIKADO Operetta in Two Acts·

Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

January 15,16,17,19, 20,21,22,23,1982

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE CAST Nanki-Poo. · Harry Danner Pish-Tush. · Tom Pedersen Pooh-Bah. · David Rae Smith Ko-Ko. · Robert Grossman Yum-Yum. · Mary Callaghan Lynch Pitti-Sing . · Rochelle Rosenthal Peep-Bo . · Sue LaDuke Wiley Katisha . · Jocelyn Wilkes Mikado. · Benjamin Wakefield Mishi-Gana. · Sen. Jack Faxon

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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE CHORUS Melanie AI Shabkhoun Vince McCormick Patricia Balysh Robert Morency Susan Borofsky Sherman Moyer Susan Caroselli Richard Mox Christian Caubet [rene Onken Annette Ciul Robert Paul Dick Darlak Tim Perrault Jennifer Dixon Kim Phillips Ann Hill David Pulice Lynn Kasch Diane Rowlands Robert Kinnear Steven Sell Elizabeth Mar-Aston William Steiner

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MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA Mark D. Flint, Music Director John Dian, Personnel Manager

FIRST VIOLIN VIOLINCELLO BASSOON Charlolle Merkerson. Concerlmaster Minka Christoff. Principal Pamela Dion Randy Margitza Debra Mulder FRENCH HORN Paula Ki bildis Pamela Bush John Dion, Principal Phyllis Fleming DOUBLE BASS Karen Dorff Francis Pelerson Laura Sias. Principal TRUMPET SECOND VIOLIN Marion Wingert James Underwood, Principal Peruz Zerounian. Principal FLUTE/ PICCOLO Gordon Simmons Wilma Turco Pamela Hill. Principal Brooke Hoplamazian TROMBONE/ BASS TROMBONE Helen Near Una Carcone Maury Okun OBOE/ ENGLISH HORN VIOLA TIMPANI/ PERCUSSION Paul Amorello Ara Zerounian. Principal Greg White Meyer Shapiro CLARINET Detroit Federation of Musicians. James Greer Carol ObET, PrinCipal Local '5 A.F. of M. LOis Nyquist

mUSlr Sir Arthur Sullivan

libretto Sir William S. Gilbert

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conductor Glen Clugston

director Dorothy Frank Danner

sets Jay Depenbrock for the Cincinnati Opera

costumes Malabar, Ltd., Toronto

lighting Marilyn Rennagel

wigs and make·up Steven Horak

chorus master Suzanne Acton

production stage manager Peggy Imbrie

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The Mikado takes place in and around the town of Titipu, in the inscrutable Orient, late in the nineteenth century. There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

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Michigan Opera Theatre is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Michigan Council for the Arts.

Administration Production Staff Dr David DiChiera. General Direc/or John P. Finck. Direc/or 0/ Productions Karen DiChiera . Direc/or 0/ Edllcalion EliUlbelh Eckert. Production Administrator John P. Finck. Direclor 0/ Productions Marily n Rennagel. lighting Consultonl Rober1 Murphy, Technical Director RichMd A. Johnson . Direelor 0/ Finance Peggy Imbrie. Production Stage Manager Slefanie T. Oil -O'Toole. Director 0/ Development Ken Cazan. Assislant Stage Manager Una Hellinger. Costume Superuisior Nicholas John Malak. Wardrobe MOsIer Administrative Staff Steven Horak. Make-up and Wig MOSIer Elizabeth Eckert. Assistant to the Director 0/ Productions William M'Arch McCarty. Property Mosler Toni Gillespie. Assisrant 10 the Director 0/ Edllca/ion Fred Hancock. Assistant Lighling Designer Mimi Mayer. Public Relations & Marketing Abe Maius. Master Carpenter David Sugar. Master Flyman Deborah Micallef . Assistant 0/ the Director 0/ Development Tom Bryant. Master ElectriCian Jerry Nardecchia . Assistant /0 the Director 0/ Finance Jack Brock. Stage Properties Head Gordon Ostrowski. Assistant to the General Director Siage Employees Local '38 IATSE Maggie Porter. Receptionist Production Interns Music Staff David Pfeifler . Directing Brian PlunkeU . Technical Mark D" Flint. Music Direcror Mary Ellen Shindel. Costuming Suzanne Acton. Chorus Masler/ Accompanzst Nancy Slover, Production/ Music Administration Daniel Beckwith. Accompanist Rebecca Walson, Make-up and Wigs John" Dion . Orchestra Personnel Manager Catherine Wesolowski. Costuming

Special Thanks The following deserve thanks for services and materials used in the production of posters promoting The Mikado and Porgy and Bess.

Sue Schafer, Art Director, Simons, Michelson, Zieve, Inc. David Baditoi, Photography Collier I Colortype, Inc. , Color Separations Beecher Peck & Lewis, Paper Caldwell Printing, Printing ---. --- MOT gratefully acknowledges properties assistance from DuMouchelle Galleries and from Father Karey and the members of Saint Aloysius. Advertising and promotional services for The Mikado and Porgy and Bess were graCiously donated by Simons, M ichelson, Zieve, Inc. ---. --- Taped readings of the material contained in this program are available through Readings for the Blind and the Wayne, Oakland and Macomb county libraries for the blind and the physically disabled. Contact the MOT education department at 963-3717 for further information.

Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, has shouted by the crowd and she angrily disguised himself as a wandering minstrel and promises revenge as the curtain falls , fled his father's court to escape marriage with As Act Two opens, the girls are dressing Yum Katisha, an elderly lady of the Mikado's court Yum for her wedding with Nanki-Poo, Yum who mistook Nanki-Poo's "customary affabili Yum declares her great happiness, but is ty into expressions of affection" and claimed reminded that it is only to be for a month, In a his hand, Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum, a ward sprightly madrigal the lovers, joined by Pitti of Ko-Ko the tailor, but has been prevented Sing and Pish-Tush, agree to make the most of from marrying her by Ko-Ko, who plans to the time they have together. Interrupting an marry her himself. Upon hearing that Ko-Ko embrace, Ko-Ko brings news of another of the has been condemned to death for flirting, Mikado's laws: when a man is beheaded, his Nanki-Poo returns to renew his suit. He meets wife must be buried alive , This gives Yum a group of nobles and demonstrates to them Yum pause, If she rejects Nanki-Poo, she must the ballads, songs and snatches in his reper marry Ko-Ko at once, If Ko-Ko marries Yum toire, When he inquires about Yum-Yum, Yum, Nanki-Poo will immediately commit Pish-Tush explains that to forestall the SUicide, thus depriving Ko-Ko of his substitute , Mikado's law that flirting is punishable by death, Ko-Ko has been released from jail and Amid the confusion Pooh-Bah announces the made Lord High Executioner on the theory imminent arrival of the Mikado and his suite, that "Who's next to be decapitated Cannot cut Ko-Ko, in a panic, decides to carry out the off another's head Until he's cut his own off," Mikado's execution orders by forging an Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else, sup affidavit saying he has beheaded Nanki-Poo, plies further information about Yum-Yum: she with Pooh-Bah as witness in several of his is on her way home from school and plans to official capacities, if Nanki-Poo wil l agree to marry Ko-Ko that very day, Ko-Ko , heralded marry Yum-Yum, go away and never return, by the nobles, now arrives and recounts the The Mikado, Katisha and entourage enter, facts of his remarkable ascent to power. He and Katisha reaffirms her intention to marry lists a vast nu~ber of people whose demise Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko presents the falsified would never be missed, should he ever have certificate of execution , The supposed to act in his official capacity, witnesses, Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah, join Ko Ko in a detailed description of the event. But Yum-Yum's friends arrive from school for the in fact, the visitors have come on a totally dif wedding fesiivities , followed quickly by Yum ferent matter: they are searching for Nanki Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo, After inadver Poo, tently insulting the haughty Pooh-Bah by fail ing to show the proper respect, the girls When the Mikado reads the death certificate apologize, and all except Yum-Yum exit. See he calmly informs the three that they have ing Yum-Yum alone, Nanki-Poo reveals his slain the heir apparent. He accepts their pro true identity, The lover~_demonstrate how found apologies, then announces that their they would flirt if there were not a law against pu~ishment - death in boiling oil or melted flirting, Ko-Ko's happy thoughts on his forth lead - will take place after luncheon, coming marriage are interrupted by Pish-Tush Distraught, Ko-Ko finds Nanki-Poo, who and Pooh-Bah with a letter from the Mikado declines to marry Katisha since he is already demanding an execution within a month, married to Yum-Yum, The only solution is for Since Ko-Ko is already under sentence, he Ko-Ko himself to marry the unwanted lady, seems to be the most likely victim unless he Not until the ceremony is performed will can find a substitute , Nanki-Poo, having Nanki-Poo consent to "come to life ," Katisha decided that life without Yum-Yum is at first scornfully rejects Ko-Ko but eventually unbearable, is about to hang himself when Ko consents to the marriage, secretly delighted, Ko chances along and recognizes in him a When the Mikado appears for the execution, possible substitute, Nanki-Poo agrees to be Katisha, now married, pleads for mercy for beheaded in a month on condition that he Ko-Ko and his two unfortunate companions, may marry Yum-Yum immediately, Reluctant Nanki-Poo appears, very much alive, with his ly Ko-Ko agrees, The chorus assembles to new bride , Katisha's anger at the deception is wish the couple well , Festivities are interrupted appeased and all ends happily with a wedding by the arrival of Katisha who claims Nanki toast. Poo's hand, When refused, she threatens to reveal his identity, but her attempts are out- R. Edward Townley

GLEN CLUGSTON, making his MOT debut ROBERT GROSSMAN, making his first as conductor of The Mikado , is co-founder Michigan Opera Theatre appearance as Ko and music director of New York's acclaimed Ko , was highly praised by Detroit critics for his American Opera Repertory Company, with performance in Bent and Watch on the Rhine whom he has co,nducted Gounod's Faust and at the Attic Theatre. He also directed Bleacher Halevy's La Juive . His opera experience also Bums and Steambath for the Attic , and sings includes conducting La Boheme, La Traviata , in several local jazz clubs. Madame Butterfly and Carmen for the Phila A graduate of the now-defunct Academy of delphia Lyric Opera. Dramatic Art at Oakland University, Mr. Mr. Clugston has also worked extensively in Grossman spent two seasons with the American musical theatre, including conduct Meadow Brook Theatre, where he was ing the natio nal tours of Annie, 1776, Fiddler featured in Twelfth Night, Arms and the Man, on the Roof, Funny Girl and Half a Sixpence. Death of a Salesman and others. At Florida's He served as ·music director for the Hallmark Players State Theatre he received the Miami Hall o f Farne television production of The CritiCS Award for his portrayal of Jacques in As Fantasticks starring Bert Lahr, and has been You Like It. Musical credits include lead roles seen on The Today Show, The Tonight Show, in stock productions of 1776, Company, Mike Douglas and Omnibus. An accomplished Damn Yankees and Oliver, among others. He pianist as well, Mr. Clugston was educated at is currently involved in a new production deal Juilliard and studied conducting with Ernst ing with the life and work of Lenny Bruce. Knoch and Ottavio de Rosa.

DOROTHY FRANK DANNER stage direc tor for The Mikado, is at home on both sides of MARY CALLAGHAN LYNCH, who sings the footlights. As a director she has worked Yum-Yum, is well known to local audiences with opera companies in Syracuse, Lake through a wide variety of performances. Her George, Chautauqua and Glimmerglass. Her previous MOT appearances include the role of most recent credits include Opera Omaha's Zerlina in last season's Don Giovanni, Musetta Daughter of the Regiment and her third in MOT's La Boheme with the Allen Park Houston Grand Opera production, La Symphony, and Gretel in the touring produc Pericole. tion of Hansel and Gretel. She has also ap Ms. Danner has also choreographed for both peared frequently with MOT's Overture to the New York City Opera and the New York Opera company in schools and community Shakespeare Festival. As an actress-dancer centers throughout the Greater Detroit area. she has appeared in feature films and nine Ms. Lynch most recently played Becky Broadway shows, including Irene opposite Bakowski, the romantic lead in the musical Do both ·Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell and Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Ballroom, in which she portrayed Dorothy during its record-breaking run at the Birming Loudon's daughter. ham Theatre. Other professional engagements have included an appearance at the Village HARRY DANNER, making his MOT debut Gate in New York and a number of radio and as Nanki-Poo, has sung leading tenor roles television commercials. with the Metropolitan Opera Studio and with opera companies in Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Kansas City, Chautauqua, Lake George, Philadelphia and Boston. He also in TOM PEDERSEN, a baritone with MOT's troduces children to opera as the singing voice Overture to Opera company, makes his first of Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street. Other appearance on the Music Hall stage as Pish television credits range from the PBS premiere Tush. While studying at the University of of Janacek's House of the Dead to the role of Michigan, he sang leading roles in university Mr . Leonard the music teacher on the critically productions of Die Fledermaus and Menotti's acclaimed CBS series The White Shadow. Help, Help, the Globolinks - directed by the composer·- as well as performing solo work Mr . Danner appeared in the title role of The in Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem. Student Prince at the Kennedy Opera House in Washington, DC. In musical summer stock Mr. Pedersen began teaching and coaching in he has· co-starred with Dick Van Dyke, Robert Ann Arbor; currently he is musical director of Goulet, Chita Rivera , Allan Jones and the Central Woodward Christian Church in Roberta Peters in a wide range of Broadway Troy and serves on the Detroit Community shows. Music School faculty .

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre MARILYN RENNAGEL, whose spectacular Smith is equally at home in musical theatre, lighting for MOT's premiere production of where he has starred in Gigi, Can-Can, South Anoush this fall was praised by local and na Pacific, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music and tional critics alike, is also designing the com The Music Man in regional productions. pany's Mikado, in addition to serving as over all lighting consultant for the season, Miss Ren BENJAMIN WAKEFIELD'S performance in nagel's designs have also been seen in the the title role of The Mikado is both his MOT lighting for MOT's Don Giouanni, Joan of Arc debut and his first professional Gilbert & and /I Trouatore. In Miami she designed the Sullivan production. Raised and educated in lighting for Rigoletto and La Fanciulla del West Texas, he spent two seasons with the Dallas and in Dallas she has designed Lakme, Aida, Civic Opera, where he was featured in Kurt The Barber of Se uille , Manon, La Trauiata and Weill's Down in the Valley. Other Texas the United States premiere of Orlando Fur· credits include Bernstein's Mass with the Fort ioso. She is currently embarking on lighting Worth Symphony and The Ballad of Baby designs for the entire Ring cycle in Dallas, a Doe in Amarillo. project of four years. Ms. Rennagel is currently represented on Now a resident of Chicago, Mr. Wakefield has Broadway by the lighting for Woman of the recently been active in Europe. He studied Year. She has created lighting for such per with the famed Tito Gobbi in Florence, Italy, formers as Rod Stewart, Billy Preston, linda and participated in this faU's Festival Mondial Ronstadt and Bernadette Peters. She was du Theatre in Nancy and Paris, France .. lighting consultant for Barry Manilow's world tour and has worked on Franl:< Egan's Olds SUE LA DUKE WILEY makes her. third mobile Announcement Show for five years. MOT appearance this season as Peep-Bo, having been part of the chorus for botli ROCHELLE ROSENTHAL, fa native Carmen and Anoush. She is also in, her Detroiter now living and working in:New York second year with Overture to Opera, MOT's City, is in her third MOT season as Pitli-Sing. touring group presenting one act operas and She was Gretchen in MOT's 1978 Student special programs for schools and community P;ince and was a member of the company's organizations. Young Artist Intern program in 1980, when As the winner of two Concerti Concerts com , she sang in MOT's Matrix: Midland production petitions, Miss Wiley was awarded solo per of The Pearl Fishers and appeared in a political formances with the Pontiac Oakland Sym revue which MOT presented for the Republi phony for two consecutive years. She has per can Convention. formed leading roles in musicals ranging from Miss Rosenthal has also appeared locally with Brecht on Brecht to A Funny Thing Happened the Michigan Youth Theatre and in several on the Way to the Forum , and has led Roches Theatre of the Arts dinner theatre productions. ter's Avon Playhouse Youth Theatre program She has recently sung in several of New York's for the past five years. most popular nightdubs, including The Bushes, Ted Hook's On Stage and the late JOCELYN WILKES, making her Michigan Reno Sweeney's. Opera Theatre debut as Katisha in The Mikado , has been acclaimed by one major DAVID RAE SMITH (Pooh-Bah) is a leading critic as "one of the best contraltos in the G&S character baritone with New York City Opera, business." In American and Canadian engage where his roles have included Prince Orlofsky ments, she has played many important Gilbert in Die F/edermaus and Baron Zeta in The and Sullivan roles, including Buttercup in Merry Widow. He appeared with Beverly Sills HMS Pinafore, Lady Blanche in Princess Ida, in the nationally televised production of Merry Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance and Lady Widow; other television work has included In Jane in Patience. Performance at Wolf Trap and an NET Opera The Welsh-born singer's talents extend Theatre production of La Cubana. beyond the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire to Mr. Smith has sung leading operatic roles in include Madame Flora in The Medium and Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and the Canary Mrs. Peachum in The Three Penny Opera . Islands with the Las Palmas Festival; while this During the 1981 season, she debuted with the is his MOT debut, he previously worked with Toledo Opera as Martha in Faust and with the Mikado director Dorothy Danner in a Glim Central City Opera as Mama McCourt in The merglass production of HMS Pinafore. Mr. Ballad of Baby Doe.

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward Evenings: Jan. 29,30,31; Feb. 4, 5, 6,12,13 and 14 Matinees: Jan. 31; Feb. 3, 7 and 10 Drawing on every facet of America's musical heritage - from jazz and spirituals to blues and Broadway- "Porgy and Bess" stands today among the most passionate and powerful masterworks of the century. MOT's all-new production will bring DuBose Heyward's Catfish Row to vivid, teeming life with an outstanding cast singing Gershwin's immortal music. PHONE ORDERS Call 963-7680 CHARGE TO YOUR VISA or MASTER CARD GROUP SALES - Call Peg Sullivan at 963-7622 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL CTC OUTLETS

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GEORGE GERSHWIN'S PORGY AND BESS Opera in Two Acts

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre THE CAST Porgy .. Donnie Ray Albert - Jan. 29, matinee 31, Feb. 3, 5, 7, 12, 14 Michael V. Smartt - Jan. 3D, evening 31, Feb. 4, 6 , 10, 13 Bess . . Wilhelmenia Fernandez - Jan. 29, matinee 31, Feb. 3, 5, 7, 12, 14 Phyllis Kirian - Jan. 3D, evening 31, Feb. 4, 6, 10, 13 Crown. Gregg Baker Serena . Delores Ivory Davis - Jan. 29, matinee 31, Feb. 3, 5, 7, 12, 14 Earnestine Nimmons - Jan. 3D, evening 31, Feb. 4, 6, 10, 13 Sportin' life. Clyde Williams Clara .. . . Glenda Kirkland Maria .. Doris J . Berry Jake. Richard Taylor Mingo . . . . Tim Humphrey Robbins . . John Davis Peter . . James Humphrey Frazier .. Hezekiah Williams Annie. .. Lisa Scott Lily. . . . Barbara Jackson Strawberry Woman. Birdena Oakley Jim . . . . Herbert Whitby Undertaker . . . . Van Fore Nelson . . . . Cass Hudson Crab Man. .. Michael Hendricks Detective. Clyde Miner Policeman . . . Roland Aragona Coroner. .. Jerry Orlowski Scipio . . Curtis Brown Porgy's Goat. . Joey --e--

MOT Chorus Mattye Anderson Van Fore Carl Payne Jocelyn Ashford Michael Hendricks Dorothea Pullen Cora Bridges Narrissa F. Houston Patricia Richardson Paulette Brockington Cass Hudson Denise Robinson Gregory Bryant James Humphrey Peggy Robinson Troy Burgess Tim Humphrey Florence Sampson Elaine Carr Barbara Jackson Lisa Scott Billie Carter Barbara Middleton Richard Taylor Erma Dandridge Patrice Moore Oliver Wesley John Davis Romulus Murrell Herbert Whitby Net'fa Enzinga Birdena Oakley Hezekiah Williams

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MOT Dancers The Children of Catfish Row Terrence Dearing Curtis Brown Michael Robinson Quincy Edwards Carolyn Carr Jeffrey Trent Chiquita Ross Leanette Horne Raina Trent

--e-- conductor Randolph Mauldin entire production directed & choreographed by Louis Johnson sets James Stone Merrill Stone Associates for the Connecticut Opera lighting Richard Winkler costumes Beth Novak for the University of Utah

--e-- musical preparation & chorus master Randolph Mauldin production stage manager Charles Davisson

--e-- THE SCENE Charleston, N.C. - The 1930's ACT ONE Scene 1: Catfish Row, a summer evening Scene 2: Catfish Row, the following night Scene 3: Catfish Row, a month later ACT TWO Scene 1: Kittiwah Island, evening, the same day Scene 2: Catfish Row, before dawn, a week later Scene 3: Serena's Room, dawn, the following day Scene 4: Catfish Row, the next night Scene 5: Catfish Row, the next afternoon Scene 6: Catfish Row, a week later --e-- Michigan Opera Theatre is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts.

Administration Production Staff Dr. David DiChiera, General Director John P. Finck, Director oj Productions Karen DIChiera, Director oj Educotion Elizabeth Eckert, Production Administrator John P. Finck, Director oj Productions Marilyn Rennagel, Lighting Consultant Robert Murphy, Technical Director Richard A. Johnson, Director oj Finance Peggy Imbrie, Production Stage Manager Stefanie 1. Ott-O'Toole, Director oj Development Marc Cervania. Stage Director Ken Cazan. Assistant Stage Manager Chiquita Ross, Assistant to the Stage Manager Administrative Staff Ulla Hettinger, Costume Superuisior Elizabeth Eckert. Assistant to the Director oj Productions Nicholas John Mozak, Wardrobe Master Toni Gillespie, Assistant to the Director oj Education Sieven Horak. Make-up and Wig Mosler Mimi Mayer, Public Refations & Marketing William m'Arch McCarty. Property Master Fred Hancock. Assistant Lighting Designer Deborah Micallef, Assistant to the Director oj Development Abe Maius, Mosler Carpenter Jerry Nardecchia, Assistant to the Director oj Finance David Sugar, Master Flyman Gordon Ostrowski, Assistant to the General Director Tom Bryant. Master Electrician Debra Valle, Public Relations & Marketing Intern Jack Brock, Stage Properties Head Maggie Porter, Receptionist Stage Employees Local '38 IATSE

Production Interns Music Staff Brian Plunkett. Technical Mark D. Flint, Music Director Nancy Stover, Production/Music Administration Daniel Beckwith, Principal Accompanist Mary Ellen Shindel. Costuming Suzanne Acton, Accompanist Rebecca Watson, Make-up and Wigs John Dlon. Orchestra Personnel Manager Catherine Wesolowski, Costuming

MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE ORCHESTRA Mark o. Flint, Music Director John Olon, Personnel Manager

FIRST VIOLIN DOUBLE BASS TRUMPET Charlotte Merkerson. Concertmaster Laura Sias, Principal James Underwood, Pn'ncipal Randy Margitza Marion Wingert Gordon Simmons Paula Kibildis Scott Schroeder A.UTE/PICCOlO Phyllis Fleming Pamela Hill, Principal Francis Peterson TROMBONE/ BASS TROMBONE Helen Near Maury Okun, Principal SECOND VIOLIN Gregory Near Peruz Zerounian, PrIncipal OBOE/ENGLISH HORN Paul Amorello Wilma Turco TIMPANI Greg While Brooke Hoplamazian ClARINET / SAXOPHONE Lina Carcone Carol Ober, Principal PERCUSSION VIOlA Joseph Ma!lare Tim Barth Russell Mallare Ara Zerounlan, Principal PIANO Meyer Shapiro BASSOON Danny Beckwith James Greer Pamela Dlon Detroit Federatlon of Musicians. VIOLIN CELLO FRENCH HORN Local '5 A.F. of M. Mlnka Christoff, Principal John Dion, Principal Debra Mulder Karen Dorff Pamela Bush

ACT ONE: It is Charleston, South Carolina, in woman, he succeeds in seducing her as the boat the 1930's. The curtain rises on Catfish Row, an whistle sounds in the background. area along the Charleston waterfront where On Catfish Row a week later, Peter returns from once-aristocratic homes have become a black jail as the fishermen head out to sea and others tenement district. It is a hot summer night; Clara gather to pray for the recovery of Bess, who is sings a lullaby to her baby while other residents lying feverish and delirious in Porgy's room . of Catfish Row dance, sing, play and start a crap When she comes out, Porgy explains that he game. Sportin' life, Robbins and the crippled knows but does not care that she was with beggar Porgy are among the crap shooters when Crown. She tells him that although she wants to Crown arrives to join the game with Bess on his stay with him ; she is afraid that she will not be arm. strong enough to resist Crown when he comes The drunken Crown gets into an argument and for her. Porgy promises to protect her, and they ends by killing Robbins with a cotton hook; in his go inside . Suddenly the sky darkens and a hurry to escape before the police arrive, he frightened Clara realizes that a hurricane is leaves Bess behind. After refusing to go with brewing with her husband at sea. Sportin' life, she tries to find somewhere along The storm is still raging early the next morning Catfish Row to hide from the police; but the only as friends gather in Serena's room to pray and door open to her is Porgy's and Bess quietly wait. Suddenly Crown breaks into the room, enters, leaving Serena to grieve for her dead takes Bess, and throws the crippled Porgy to the husband, Robbins. floor when he tries to protect her. Clara screams, The next night the dead man is laid out, and having seen her husband's boat capsized in the neighbors are dropping by to contribute money river, and rushes out into the storm. Bess cries for his burial expenses. The police burst in, for someone to go after her and, after taunting ordering Serena to bury her husband at once Porgy and the others for being afraid to do so, and arbitrarily accuse the old man Peter of his Crown goes out after the distraught woman. murder. Despite his . indignant insistance that Crown was the killer, Peter is taken away for The following night Catfish Row is mourning the questioning. When the police have left , the deaths of Clara, Jake and Crown when Sportin' wake continues, and an undertaker agrees to life comes in and hints that Crown is actually handle the burial as Bess, having slowly been still alive. When the court is deserted, Crown accepted by the suspicious community, leads enters quietly and moves toward Porgy's room. them in a rousing spiritual. The powerful cripple, however, catches Crown off guard and, after a struggle, kills him. About a month later - the day of the big lodge picnic on Kittiwah Island in the harbor - Clara The following afternoon, the police are having begs her husband Jake not to go fishing so close no success in their attempts to get information to hurricane season, but he insists that they need about the killing of Crown. Finally they call for the money and leaves. Maria catches Sportin' Porgy to go down to identify the body. The crip life peddling his "happy dust" outside her shop ple is terrified of seeing his victim's face again, and runs him off. Frazier bilks Porgy out of some but the police finally force him off with them. money for a "divorce" for Bess, but the cripple is Sportin' life offers the distaught Bess some too happy too care. However, a buzzard flies "happy dust" again , and she finally yields as he low over the courtyard and everyone recognizes paints a picture of the glamorous life waiting for the predatory bird as an omen of ill fortune. the two of them in New York . She refuses more As everyone goes off to get ready for the picnic, dope and goes in, but he nonchalantly throws a Sportin' life reappears to offer Bess some "hap packet in after her. In short order she is back py dust." She refuses and the powerful Porgy out, thoroughly under the influence of the drug, nearly breaks the dope peddler's wrist while and goes off with him . warning him to keep away from Bess. Sporlin' A week later, Catfish Row has returned to nor life runs off and Porgy and Bess sing of their mal when an ebullient Porgy returns with gifts love as the residents of Catfish Row depart for for his friends and especially for Bess. As people Kittiwah Island. Bess wants to stay with Porgy, drift awkwardly away , Porgy gradually becomes but he convinces her to go to the picnic without aware that something is wrong, goes to his room him. and finds that Bess is gone. He fears that she is ACT TWO: On the Island that evening, Sporlin' dead, and is overjoyed when Serena and Maria life sings It Ain 't Necessarily So as people pack explain that she has gone off to New York . Call up to return home. The last to leave, Bess is ing for his goat and carl - and over the objec suddenly confronted by Crown, who has been tions of everyone on Catfish Row - Porgy sets hiding out on the island. Despite her pleas that off in search of his Bess. he leave her alone and find himself another - R. Edward Townley

RANDOLPH MAULDIN, conductor, Callum and Dawn Wells. For the past six years returns to Detroit from his successful tour of he has been production coordinator at the Sweeney Todd starring Angela Lansbury. His Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for the conducting debut was in Music Hall's 1976 American College Theatre Festival. production of EI Capitan . MOT audiences will Some of the national tours he has stage remember his conducting of Naughty Marietta managed include Hello, Dolly with Carol and his acclaimed translation of The Magic Channing, Summer and Smoke with Eva Flute that same season. Marie Saint and Father's Day, Same Time Since 1977, Mr. Mauldin has conducted Next Year and Twigs with Barbara Rush. Mr. opera, music theatre and ballet in Augusta and Davisson has worked in the New York Chicago and at Wolf Trap . He was cited as a theatres, dinner theatres, regional theaters, "Young Artist to Watch" by Musical America and television and has over 400 productions and returns to Augusta in April for a PBS pro to his credit. duction of Madame Butterfly. Mr. Mauldin has begun composition of his first opera. DONNIE RAY ALBERT has achieved world wide acclaim as Porgy, the role in which he LOUIS JOHNSON, stage director and appears with Michigan Opera Theatre this choreographer for Porgy and Bess, has season. He has starred in Porgy and Bess for directed and choreographed extensively the Houston Grand Opera - including a throughout the United States and abroad. Broadway engagement, European tour and Some of his Broadway credits include subsequent cast recording - and with the Treemonisha, Lost in the Stars and Purlie, for Connecticut Opera, among others. His roles which he received a Tony Award nomination. with New York City Opera have included Mr. Johnson's recent accomplishments in Basilio in /I Barbiere di 'Siviglia, Tolomeo in clude the Metropolitan Opera's new produc Giulio Cesare and Jake Wallace in La Fan tion of Aida with Leontyne Price, along with a ciulla del West. The bass-baritone has also new work for the Alvin Ailey American Dance sung with Chicago Lyric Opera, the Fort Theatre. He has staged acts for Aretha Worth Opera and the Boston Concert Opera, Franklin, has choreographed productions for among others. !.he Radio City Music Hall and has mounted Mr . Albert's concert career has included works for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. His appearances with the New York Philhar film credits include Cotton Comes to Harlem monic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the and the movie The Wiz starring Diana Ross. Dallas Symphony and the Jerusalem Sym phony. His schedule for the 1981-82 season includes La Cenerentola in Vancouver, Fidelia RICHARD WINKLER is involved with his with the Dallas Symphony and I Puritanl with third MOT production as lighting designer for Porgy and Bess. Last season he created the the Boston Concert Opera, lighting for Die Fledermaus and for Fide lio , MOT's joint venture with the Detroit Sym GREGG BAKER rounds out the love triangle phony Orchestra. For the past seven seasons in Porgy and Bess as Crown in his first he has designed lights for such Dallas Civic Michigan Opera' Theatre appearance. On Opera productions as Turandot, La Ceneren Broadway he starred opposite Eartha Kit1 as tala, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Salome, Madame Hadji In Timbuklu, a role he later played in Butterfly and their new Romeo and Juliet. Detroit during the national tour. Mr. Baker Mr. Winkler's Broadway credits include Your also held two roles in the musical Raisin, ap Arms Too Short to Box with God, the Shirley pearing as Willie Harris on Broadway and as Bassey Concert, Something's Afoot, Best Walter Lee Younger while on tour. During the " Friend and The Play's the Thing. He also national tour of Godspell, he played John the supervised lighting The Concert starring Frank Baptist. Sinatra and both of Shirley Mac Laine's Palace Other credits include nightclub engagements Theatre engagements. He is the lighting con at Dangerfield's and Studio One in Manhat1an sultant for Canada's Wonderland, a huge new as well as two television appearances for NBC. theme park that opened this spring. Mr. Baker also held principal roles in three nationally televised commercials. CHARLES DAVISSON, production stage manager, comes to MOT directly from a tour DORIS J. BERRY as Marla,sings the role of Romantic Comedy, starring David Mc- she held during Michigan Opera Theatre's

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre 1975 Production of Porgy and Bess. More the 1980 Matrix:Midland summer festival. Fre recently, she appeared as Addie in MOT's quently a featured performer with the Detroit Regina, which opened the 1977-78 season. Symphony Orchestra under Antal Dorati, she The winner of many vocal competitions, Ms . is heard on the orchestra's London recording Berry has sung with the Detroit Symphony of Strauss' The Egyptian Helen. Orchestra, the Robert Nolan Chior and the Miss Kirkland is familiar to Ann Arbor Don Large Chorus. audiences as well, for her performances in University of Michigan productions of Porgy DOLORES IVORY DAVIS comes to MOT and Bess, Don Giovanni and Madame Butter as Serena, the role she held when the fly . She was recently a soloist with the Uni Houston Grand Opera Association took Porgy versity of Michigan Musical SOCiety and and Bess onto Broadway and on tour; she Symphony in Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. played Serena in New Zealand, Australia and Currently Assistant Professor of Voice at Israel as well. Eastern Michigan University, she was educated at Juilliard and the University of A native Detroiter, Ms. David performed Michigan, where she is pursuing a Doctor of oratorio in and around New York City and Musical Arts degree. was a soloist with the New York City Opera Title III Program. She was the winner of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant for Continued EARNESTINE NIMMONS , who plays Study and has performed leading roles with Serena, has sung with Michigan Opera the SI. Paul Opera Company and the Spring Theatre since its inception as the Overture to field Symphony Orchestra in Massachusettes. Opera Company. She also sang Serena in the company's 1975 production of Porgy and Bess and most recently appeared as Micaela in WILHELMENIA FERNANDEZ is appearing MOT's 1977 production of Carmen. in her third consecutive Michigan Opera Ms. Nimmons had appeared with the Detroit Theatre season, this year singing Bess, a role Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony in which she earned international acclaim Orchestra, The Flint Symphony Orchestra, the through the Houston Grand Opera production National Association of Negro Musicians and on Broadway and on tour throughout Europe. the Plymouth Symphony. Her recital engage Miss Fernandez made her MOT debut as ments include performances at Marygrove Musetta in the 1979 La Boheme, and ap College, the Detroit Institute of Arts and a peared here last season as Donna Elvira in concert broadcast on the local public television Don Giovanni. station. A graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, her professional opera debut MICHAEL V_ SMARTT, singing the role of was as Antonia in Tales of Hoffman. She has Porgy, performed the role in the Houston twice sung the title role in Aida with the Kansas Grand Opera international tour of the Gersh City.Lyric Opera, and has also sung Musetta in win classic. His professional theatre debut was Paris and with the Charlotte Opera, for whom as Hud in the musical Hair at Chicago's she also appeared in the role of Bess earlier Schubert Theatre. this year. A graduate of Tennessee State University, Mr. Smartt has received advance performing PHYLLIS KIRIAN - Bess in several perfor degrees from the Indiana University School of mances of the Gershwin masterpiece - is new Music, where he has also appeared as Renato to MOT. She spent much of the fall giving in A Masked Ball and in the title roles of recitals of lieder and spirituals to audiences in Rigoletto and the world premiere of Jacob San Francisco, Chicago and New York City. Lenz. Her operatic credits include the role of Countess Ceprano in Chicago Symphony Or CLYDE WILLIAMS makes his Mich iga n chestra productions of Rigo/etto. Opera Theatre debut as Sport in' Life , a role he During post graduate studies in Salzburg's performed in Austria, France, Israel , Norway famed Mozarteum, Miss Kirian appeared in and Portugal. He also played the role under Die Zauberf/ote; she was later broadcast sing James Levine during a May Festival concert in ing spirituals and show tunes over a major Cincinnati. He has concertized with the Cin West German radio station. She will appear as cinnati Orchestra under Thor Johnson as well. a soloist when Calvin Simmons conducts the Mr. William's work in theatre ranges from Oakland Symphony's premiere performance fe~ured roles in the Broadway productions of of Tippet's Third Symphony. Blues for Mr. Charlie, Utbu and Tambourines to Glory to the lead in a Memphis Lyric GLENDA KIRKLAND makes her second Theatre mounting of Purlie. His television MOT appearance this season as Clara, having credits includes appearances on The Tonight sung Micaela in this fall's Carmen. She last Show, Lincoln Center First Anniversary Show sang with MOT in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers for and s'everal soap operas.

Special Thanks The following deserve thanks for services and materials used in the production of posters promoting The Mikado and Porgy and Bess: Sue Schafer, Art Director, Simons, Michelson, Zieve, Inc. David Baditoi, Photography Collier/Colortype, Inc., Color Separations Beecher Peck & Lewis, Paper Caldwell Printing, Printing --e-- MOT gratefully acknowledges properties assistance from DuMouchelle Galleries and Novelty House. . Thanks are due to the Birmingham Schools Farm, the Michigan Humane Society and trainer Doug Spike for help with the goat, Joey. MOT appreciates costume assistance from the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. AdvertiSing and promotional services for The Mikado and Porgy and Bess were graCiously donated by Simons, Michelson, Zieve, Inc. --e-- Taped readings of the material contained in this program are available through Readings for the Blind and the Wayne, Oakland and Macomb county libraries for the blind and the phYSically disabled . Contact the MOT education department at 963-3717 for further information.