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LYRIC OF CHICAGO Table of Contents ROBERT KUSEL

IN THIS ISSUE Così fan tutte – pp. 20-35

6 From the General Director 20 Tonight’s Performance 38 Artistic Roster 8 From the Chairman 21 Synopsis 39 Lyric and Social Media 10 Board of Directors 23 Cast 40 Patron Salute 11 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ 24 Artist Profiles 43 Aria Society Executive Board/Young Professionals/ 30 Opera Notes 52 Breaking New Ground Ryan Opera Center Board 34 Director's Note 53 Look to the Future 12 Administration/Administrative Staff/ Production and Technical Staff 35 After the Curtain Falls 54 Major Contributors – Special Events 36 and Project Support 14 Piano Run-Throughs at Lyric: Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus Nearly Ready for Prime Time 37 Backstage Life 55 Lyric Unlimited Contributors 56 Commemorative Gifts Piano 57 Ryan Opera Center CORY WEAVER CORY 58 Ryan Opera Center Alumni Run-Throughs Around the World at Lyric: 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors Nearly Ready 60 Planned Giving: The Overture Society for Prime Time 62 Corporate Partnerships 63 Matching Gifts, Special Thanks and Acknowledgements pp. 14-18 64 Annual Individual and Foundation Support 71 Facilities and Services/Theater Staff

On the cover: detail from “The Summer-Time French Riviera,” 1928 Southern Railway poster (F. Whatley, artist). McCorquodale & Co. Limited, London.

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From the General Director

Opera thrills us to our depths not simply through great music and great theater, but through the brilliance with which those elements reveal the truth of human emotion. The greatest opera composers aren’t simply peerless musicians – they’re also brilliant psychologists who bring us the hearts and souls of their characters with unique, astounding insight. In the entire history of opera, no composer merits this description more than , especially in his Così fan tutte. A great Così performance gives an audience satisfaction of a very rare kind, since STEVE LEONARD the challenges are so overwhelming. The piece requires, first of all, true singing actors – an ensemble of six star performers, all of them superbly accomplished musically and vocally. Mozart has given them many opportunities to make their presence felt in solo passages (for example, there’s nothing more moving in the Mozart than Ferrando’s love song in Act One or Fiordiligi’s private examination of her feelings in Act Two). Thanks to Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, each of these six individuals onstage undertakes an emotional journey in the course of the opera, in which each of the five other characters plays a significant role. These are all intensely human figures, very specifically defined: dignified Fiordiligi and flighty Dorabella, lovestruck Ferrando and exuberant Guglielmo, earthy Despina and world-weary Don Alfonso. The miracle of the opera is the musically and dramatically enthralling interplay among them. The great question applied to any Così production is how the director chooses to treat the ending: will the young women return to their fiancés, or will they go off with their new partners? The answer to that question is something I always look forward to, and of course, I won’t reveal here the direction we’ll take for this finale at Lyric! The suspense will make that moment all the more rewarding for everyone in the audience. Fiordiligi in Così, one of Mozart’s most exacting soprano roles, has been closely associated with Lyric favorite Ana María Martínez throughout her career, and I’m thrilled that she can now bring this much-acclaimed portrayal to Lyric. I anticipate a captivating stage partnership between Ana María and Marianne Crebassa (Dorabella), who so delighted Lyric audiences in Romeo and Juliet two seasons ago. The same can be said of the dashing pair portraying their fiancés, Joshua Hopkins (Guglielmo) and Andrew Stenson (Ferrando), and of the opera’s two schemers: Elena Tsallagova (Despina) in her Lyric debut and Alessandro Corbelli (Don Alfonso), whose mastery of comic repertoire we’ve been privileged to witness frequently at Lyric over the past three decades. It’s always a joy for us to introduce an outstanding young American conductor to Lyric audiences. James Gaffigan, still less than a decade into his international career and already praised for his Mozart at Glyndebourne and the , is making an indelible impression with other major opera companies and orchestras worldwide. At Lyric he’s collaborating with the gifted Bruno Ravella, who is reviving John Cox's marvelous production. John’s extraordinarily perceptive response to both the humor and the sheer humanity of the Mozart/da Ponte operas has produced innumerable glorious performances of this repertoire at every leading house internationally, including our previous Così revival in 2006/07. Refresh your spirits and enrich your hearts with Così fan tutte, one of the true masterpieces of opera.

Anthony Freud General Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

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From the Chairman

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I’m delighted to welcome you to Lyric Opera of Chicago. This season has been a particularly varied and distinctive one. Prior to the captivating presentation of Mozart›s Così fan tutte that you’re enjoying tonight, our audiences thrilled to Gluck’s exquisite Orphée et Eurydice in John Neumeier’s historic new production; a powerfully dramatic revival of Verdi’s ; the second installment of Lyric’s monumental new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with Die Walküre; Bizet’s ravishing The Pearl Fishers; Puccini’s TODD ROSENBERG formidable Turandot; and Bellini’s glorious I puritani. I hope you’ll return for the final opera of the mainstage season, Gounod’s matchlessly romantic Faust. Speaking personally, one of the most rewarding aspects of Lyric – not only as chairman, but as a longtime subscriber and patron – is my joy in introducing family, friends, and business colleagues to the company and the art form. I hope you’ll consider doing the same! When I receive out-of-town visitors during the opera season, I always try to include an evening at Lyric. It’s inevitably a major highlight of their stay. A Lyric performance isn’t only an opportunity to dress up and go out with your significant other or with close friends for an elegant evening – it’s also an unforgettable and rewarding experience of timeless stories set to some of the world’s greatest music and performed by many of the top artists of our day. Lyric’s mainstage productions are, of course, the core of every season we present. I also encourage you to explore the unique activities of Lyric Unlimited, our initiative focused on community engagement and education. It is one of the ways that the company stays relevant as a cultural service provider to all of Chicago, whether with newly commissioned works, community-created performances or the special programs presented in dozens of public schools all over Chicago every year. The level of creativity at work in Lyric Unlimited presentations has been truly inspiring, and it has exposed the art form of opera to tens of thousands of students across Chicagoland. By presenting opera in new and non-traditional ways, Lyric Unlimited helps to grow and expand our audiences. I invite you to join me at one of the Lyric Unlimited performances of Fellow Travelers in March or Family Day at Lyric on April 7. At Lyric, we truly cherish our donors and patrons. We consider each one of you as members of the Lyric family. It can sometimes be trite to declare, “Every gift counts,” but at Lyric it’s true: you’re going above and beyond what you’re paying for the ticket price. You’re investing in Lyric, entrusting that we will turn your gift into great art. We take that responsibility very seriously and are constantly imagining new ways to enhance your personal experience at Lyric, build new audiences for opera, and do it all in the most cost-effective way we can. Many thanks to all of you who play a vital role in ensuring that our great art form and our great company continue to serve Chicago and the world of opera today and in the years to come.

David T. Ormesher

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Board of Directors

OFFICERS LIFE DIRECTORS Sonia Florian* Don M. Randel The Honorable Bruce Rauner Edgar Foster Daniels Michael T. Foley Elke Rehbock The Honorable Rahm Emanuel Richard J. Franke Anthony Freud*+ Anne N. Reyes* Honorary Chairmen of the Board Edgar D. Jannotta Mary Patricia Gannon J. Christopher Reyes Edgar D. Jannotta George E. Johnson Ronald J. Gidwitz William C. Richardson, Ph.D.° Co-Chairman Emeritus Robert H. Malott Ruth Ann M. Gillis* Brenda Robinson Allan B. Muchin James J. O’Connor Brent W. Gledhill*+ Collin E. Roche Co-Chairman Emeritus Gordon Segal Ethel C. Gofen Edward B. Rouse David T. Ormesher Robert E. Wood II Howard L. Gottlieb* Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Chairman of the Board Melvin Gray Shirley Welsh Ryan* Lester Crown DIRECTORS Maria C. Green+ E. Scott Santi* Chairman of the Executive Katherine A. Abelson Dietrich M. Gross* Claudia M. Saran Committee Whitney W. Addington, M.D.* Dan Grossman Rodd M. Schreiber Anthony Freud James L. Alexander* Carrie J. Hightman Jana R. Schreuder* General Director, President & John P. Amboian Elliot E. Hirsch Marsha Serlin CEO Paul F. Anderson Eric L. Hirschfield Brenda M. Shapiro* Sir Andrew Davis Larry A. Barden J. Thomas Hurvis* Richard W. Shepro Vice President Julie Baskes* Gregory K. Jones Eric S. Smith* Renée Fleming James N. Bay, Jr. Stephen A. Kaplan° Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Vice President Melvin R. Berlin Kip Kelley II Pam F. Szokol James L. Alexander Gilda R. Buchbinder Fred A. Krehbiel° Franco Tedeschi Vice President Allan E. Bulley, III Josef Lakonishok* Mark A. Thierer Shirley Welsh Ryan John E. Butler Robert W. Lane° Cherryl T. Thomas Vice President Marion A. Cameron* James W. Mabie* Donna Van Eekeren* William C. Vance Paul J. Carbone*+ Craig C. Martin* William C. Vance* Vice President David W. Carpenter Robert J. McCullen Roberta L. Washlow Donna Van Eekeren Richard W. Colburn+ Blythe J. McGarvie Miles D. White Secretary Michael P. Cole Andrew J. McKenna Paul J. Carbone Vinay Couto Frank B. Modruson+ Treasurer Lester Crown* Robert S. Morrison Mary Ladish Selander William Mason Marsha Cruzan Allan B. Muchin* Assistant Secretary General Director Emeritus Sir Andrew Davis* Linda K. Myers* Roberta Lane Gerald Dorros, M.D.° Jeffrey C. Neal Assistant Treasurer Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Ann M. Drake Sylvia Neil* Dan Draper John D. Nichols° Allan Drebin Kenneth R. Norgan Charles Droege Sharon F. Oberlander Chaz Ebert John W. Oleniczak*+ Stefan T. Edlis Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D. * Executive Committee Lois Eisen David T. Ormesher*+ + Audit Committee W. James Farrell William A. Osborn* ° National Member Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Matthew J. Parr Matthew A. Fisher Jane DiRenzo Pigott* Renée Fleming* Jose Luis Prado

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Women’s Board Guild Board of Directors Michael J. Brahill Members at Large † Nancy S. Searle † James A. Staples Dr. Gerald Budzik Vindya Dayananda President President Mrs. Robert C. DeBolt Lena Dickinson † Mrs. Christopher Murphy † Marc Lacher Ms. Ingrid Dubberke Fritzi Getz Vice President of Board Activities Vice President – Benefit * Mr. Jonathan Eklund Laura Guili † Caroline T. Huebner † Cathy Wloch Mr. Joseph Ender Joe Michalak Vice President of Education Vice President – Family Day Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Shannon Shin † Mrs. Julian W. Harvey *† Ms. Martina M. Mead Rick Greenman J.J. Williams Vice President of Fundraising Vice President – Fundraising Dennis C. Hayes † Mrs. Anne M. Edwards † Maggie Rock Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Vice President of Special Events Vice President – Membership Virginia Jach Ryan Opera Center Board † Nathaniel W. Pusey Mrs. Jackie Knight Silvia Beltrametti Vice President – * Ms. Kate Letarte of Directors Margot Stone Bowen Membership Engagement Mrs. Carole Luczak Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Suzette Bulley † Dorothy Kuechl Judy Marshall Honorary Co-Chairs Marie Campbell Secretary Ms. Vee Minarich John Nitschke President Mamie Biggs Case † Ms. Christina M. Rashid Karen W. Porter * Julie Baskes Vice President – At Large Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr. Treasurer Mrs. Maria Rigolin Janet Burch Vice President – At Large † Elizabeth O’Connor Cole † Leslie Bertholdt Mrs. Carla Thorpe ^ Philip G. Lumpkin Vice President – Mrs. Gary C. Comer Vice President at Large Mr. Albert R. Walavich Fundraising Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown Sally Feder Vice President – * Mrs. Lester Crown Allison Alexander Sustaining Members Fundraising Co-Chair * Mrs. W. James Farrell *† Patrick J. Bitterman * Ms. Julie Anne Benson *^ Susan Kiphart Vice President – Mrs. Michael Ferro † Minka Bosco Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Nominating Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher Justin Breitfelder Mrs. William Hamilton Jane DiRenzo Pigott Vice President – § Renée Fleming Mrs. Suzy Cobin * Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Nominating Co-Chair Regan Rohde Friedmann Sarah Demet * Dorothy Kuechl ^ Joan Zajtchuk Vice President – Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Eben Dorros Lester Marriner Strategic Planning Ms. Lili Gaubin Timothy R. Farrell * Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer Juliana Chyu Vice President – Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Robert Gienko, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tiersky Strategic Planning Co-Chair † Keith Kiley Goldstein Mark Kozloff, M.D. Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Daria M. Lewicky Life Members Roberta Lane Assistant Treasurer Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel John F. Mamon, M.D. * Mrs. J. William Cuncannan Chester T. Kamin Secretary Mrs. King Harris † Daniel T. Manoogian * Mrs. Donald Grauer Dan Novak Assistant Secretary Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Craig R. Milkint * Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan Rebecca Walker Knight † Melissa Mounce Mithal * Mrs. Merwyn Kind Nicole M. Arnold Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel † Megan Burke Roudebush * Mrs. Jonathan R. Laing Marcus Boggs Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Mary Lynne Shafer * Mrs. Frank M. Lieber Heidi Heutel Bohn Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez Fay M. Shong * Mrs. Howard S. Smith ^ Tanja Chevalier * Mrs. Richard P. Mayer † Ilene Simmons * Mrs. William C. Tippens Tamara Conway Florence D. McMillan Ms. Joan M. Solbeck * Mrs. Eugene E. White Lawrence O. Corry Alison Wehman McNally * Oscar Tatosian * Allan Drebin Mrs. Susan H. Mesrobian Michael Tirpak Chapter Presidents Erika E. Erich *† Mimi Mitchell Karianne Wardell Barrington Anthony Freud Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Ms. Anne Zenzer Mary Robins Mary Patricia Gannon † Mrs. Susan B. Noyes Evanston Melvin Gray * Mrs. James J. O’Connor Sustaining Members Barbara Eckel Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Mrs. William A. Osborn Mrs. John H. Andersen Far West Mary Ellen Hennessy Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman * Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Judy Marshall Martha A. Hesse Mrs. Frederick H. Prince Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Flossmoor Area Loretta Julian Mrs. James C. Pritchard * Robert F. Finke Ms. Sharon Gibson Jeanne Randall Malkin M.K. Pritzker Mrs. Amanda Fox Glencoe Robert C. Marks * Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes Mrs. William R. Jentes (Jan) Anne Ruzicka Erma S. Medgyesy Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed Chester T. Kamin Hinsdale Frank B. Modruson Trisha Rooney John M. Kohlmeier Karen W. Porter ^ Phyllis Neiman Betsy Bergman Rosenfield Mrs. Robert E. Largay Hyde Park/Kenwood Susan Noel * Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan * Ms. Britt M. Miller Ms. Vee Minarich Gregory J. O’Leary Erica L. Sandner * John H. Nelson Lake Geneva Michael A. Oberman Mrs. E. Scott Santi Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Vivian Fabbro Keenan Ted Reichardt Mrs. Alejandro Silva R. Todd Vieregg Near North Richard O. Ryan Mrs. Jackie Knight Richard W. Shepro Mrs. John R. Siragusa Northfield Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel † Executive Committee Billie Jean Smith Mrs. James P. Stirling * Former President Ms. Margareta Brown Salme Harju Steinberg Riverside ^ Nasrin Thierer † Marilynn Thoma Mary Kitzberger * Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Chapters’ Executive Board Donna Van Eekeren † Mrs. Sherie Shapiro Wilmette Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Mrs. Robert G. Weiss President Jack Weiss † Mary Robins Winnetka Hon. Corinne Wood Mrs. Julie McDowell Life Members Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince Vice President, Community Relations † Ms. Erika E. Erich * Katherine A. Abelson Life Members Vice President, Development † Executive Committee Mrs. James W. Cozad * Former President Paula Hannaway Crown † Mrs. Linda Budzik Bernard J. Dobroski Anne Gross * Mrs. A. Campbell de Frise Vice President, Membership Lyric Young Professionals * Mrs. Richard W. Durkes † Ms. Margie Franklin * Keith A. Reed * Jane Duboise Gargiulo Vice President, Programs Lisa DeAngelis, President Orli Staley * Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. † Ms. Claudia Winkler Martha Grant, Vice President * William C. Vance Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker Treasurer Chris Hanig, Secretary * Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Mrs. Gordon Segal † Laura Shimkus Marne Smiley, Branding Chair Howard A. Vaughan, Jr. Secretary Tania Tawil, Events Chair * Former President Jonathon Thierer, Fundraising Chair * Former President † Executive Committee Ms. Judith A. Akers Evan Fry, Membership Chair ^ Team Chair § Honorary Member Mrs. Peggy Beata Lauren Wood, Social Media Chair Mrs. Gerry Bellanca Claudine Tambuatco, YP Outreach Chair

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

Sir Andrew Davis Renée Fleming Drew Landmesser Music Director Creative Consultant Deputy General Director and Chief Operating Officer The John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair Roberta Lane Mary Ladish Selander Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Chief Development Officer

Cayenne Harris Elizabeth Landon Nicholas Ivor Martin Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Vice President, Human Resources Vice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy The Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Andreas Melinat Lisa Middleton Dan Novak Vice President, Artistic Planning Vice President, Marketing and Communications Vice President and Director, Ryan Opera Center The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Will Raj Rich Regan Michael Smallwood Vice President, Information Technology Vice President and General Manager, Vice President and Technical Director Presentations and Events The Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL Jenny Seidelman Ana Joyce Jacob Stanton DIRECTOR Associate Director of Corporate Senior Accountant Lyric Unlimited Programs Associate Anthony Freud Partnerships Nancy Ko Rebecca Edmonson General Director, President & CEO Pavitra Ramachandran Accounting Manager Backstage Tours Coordinator The Women’s Board Endowed Chair Institutional Partnerships Associate Lee Stevens MARKETING AND Linda Nguyen Irvin Andrea Rubens Payroll Director COMMUNICATIONS Manager, Office of the General Director Guild Board and Young Professionals Guirlaine Augustin Lisa Middleton Grace Vangel Coordinator Accounts Payable Associate Assistant, Office of the General Director Ebonie McDuff Vice President, Marketing Payroll Associate and Communications OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY Kate Later Tom Pels Stefany Phillips GENERAL DIRECTOR Director of Women’s Board Payroll Associate Marketing and Public Relations Drew Landmesser Chelsea Southwood Dan Seekman Coordinator Deputy General Director and Chief Associate Director of Women’s Board Staff Accountant Operating Officer Justin Berkowitz Megan St. John Holly H. Gilson Women's Board Assistant ARTISTIC Payroll Coordinator Leah Bobbey Senior Director, Communications Andreas Melinat Women’s Board Coordinator HUMAN RESOURCES Magda Krance Vice President, Artistic Planning Elizabeth Landon Director of Media Relations Cory Lippiello Vice President, Human Resources Roger Pines Artistic Administrator Deborah Hare Stephanie Strong Dramaturg Evamaria Wieser Associate Director of Donor Services Director of Compensation, Benefits, Kamaria Morris Casting Consultant and Special Events and HR Operations Public Relations Manager Paul D. Sprecher Andrew Cioffi DEVELOPMENT Jessica Drew Donor Services and Special Events Digital Content Producer Mary Ladish Selander Human Resources Associate Coordinator Charity Franco Amanda Reitenbach Chief Development Officer Social Media Associate Zachary Vanderburg Human Resources Coordinator Executive Assistant to the Chief Amy Tinucci Anna VanDeKerchove Development Officer Director of Systems, Reporting, Office Coordinator Tracy Galligher Young Benjamin Montalbano and Donor Records INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Senior Director, Marketing Assistant to the Chief Hanna Pristave Will Raj and Audience Development Development Officer Manager of Operations and Data Vice President, Information Technology Laura E. Burgos Analytics Eric Hayes Director of Audience Research Stephanie Lillie and Analytics Lawrence DelPilar Director of IT Operations Donor Records and Reporting Associate Jennifer Colgan Senior Director, Development Rita Parida Erin Johnson Director of Data Services Director of Sales and Advertising Amber Cullen Donor Records Coordinator Brittany Gonzalez Director of Major Gifts Christina Bledsoe Amanda Ramsey Systems Analyst Director of Group Sales Jonathan P. Siner Prospect and Research Coordinator Valerie Bromann Senior Director of Planned Giving Sean Lennon Systems Administrator Manager of Digital Content Libby Rosenfeld and Analysis Major Gifts Officer Angela Larson Bob Helmuth Technology Support Associate Carrie Krol Meaghan Stainback Director of Annual Giving Graphic Design Manager Associate Director of Individual Giving Scott Podraza LYRIC UNLIMITED Michael Musick Sarah Geocaris Associate Director of Annual Giving Cayenne Harris E-Commerce Manager Chapters Coordinator Meghan Pioli Vice President, Lyric Unlimited Jocelyn Park Rachel Peterson Donor Relations and Stewardship Creative Project Manager Planned and Individual Giving Associate The Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education Lindsey Raker Coordinator Karoline Reynolds Marketing Associate, Special Programs Digital Fundraising Coordinator Alejandra Boyer Director of Community Programs Margaret Stoltz Daniel P. Moss FINANCE Todd Snead Marketing Associate, Advertising Senior Director of Institutional Roberta Lane Director of Learning Programs and Promotions Partnerships Chief Financial and Administrative Will Biby LeiLynn Farmer Angela DeStefano Officer Manager of Audience Programs Group Sales Coordinator Associate Director of Guild Board Whitney Bercek Dana McGarr Sarah Kull Controller Community Programs Associate Associate Director of Foundation Nicky Chaybasarskaya Drew Smith and Government Partnerships Senior Accountant Learning Programs Associate

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TICKET DEPARTMENT/ PRODUCTION Richard “Doc” Wren Brian Traynor AUDIENCE SERVICES Cameron Arens Warehouse Coordinator Charge Artist Susan Harrison Niemi Senior Director, Production Dan DiBennardi Tim Morrison Director of Audience Services Katrina Bachus Assistant Warehouse Coordinator Michael Murtagh Alex Chatziapostolou (Demas) Jordan Braun Scenic Artists Sales Manager Elise Sandell Dan Donahue John Renfroe David Carl Toulson Justin Hull Tessitura Manager Assistant Stage Directors Ryan McGovern Scott Marr Laura Waters John W. Coleman Assistant Carpenters Wardrobe, Wigs, and Makeup Director Call Center Manager Rachel C. Henneberry Kristi Wood Kelly Cronin Rachel A. Tobias Anthony Bernardy Costume Project Coordinator VIP Ticketing Associate Adam Gorsky Stage Managers Maureen Reilly Brian Hobbs Costume Director Emma Andelson Kristen Barrett Robert Hull, Jr. The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Sebastian Armendariz Rachel C. Henneberry John Ingersol Louie Barrios Endowed Chair Anderson Nunnelley Ray Schmitz Sharai Bohannon Lucy Lindquist Daniel Sokalski Jacob Sullivan Alex Carey Wardrobe Mistress Peggy Stenger Chase Torringa Áine Collins Amy Thompson Niaimani Cooper-Parker Phil Wilkerson Jessica Doan Rachel A. Tobias Carpenters Jenah Hensel Esteban Andres Cruz Bill Walters Alicia Dale Kate Keefe Sandra Zamora Cecylia Kinder Devin Fanslow Chris Maravich Assistant Stage Managers Michael Lopez Leigh Folta Lighting Director Krystina Lowe Andrew Groble Ben Bell Bern The Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Kathy Rubel Linda Grossman Rehearsal Department Manager Endowed Chair Virginia Head Tony Rubino Josie Campbell Sarah Riffle Virginia Howard Joanna Rzepka Artistic Services Manager Heather Sparling Steve Landsman Marguerite Scott Marina Vecci Assistant Lighting Designers Katelyn Lee Rehearsal Associate Rebecca Shouse Marisa Lerman Michael Calderone Michael C. Reynolds Ewa Szylak Tina Miritello Christine Wagner Master Electrician Barbara Szyllo Jackie Murray Rehearsal Assistants Soren Ersbak Damillia Taylor LaRob Payton Board Operator Carolina Tuazin Tony Portela THE PATRICK G. AND SHIRLEY W. Issac Turner Daniel Quinn RYAN OPERA CENTER John Clarke, Jr. Maggie Zabierowski Kellie Springfield Dan Novak Anthony Coia Wardrobe Staff Caitlin Patricia Stigler Vice President and Director, Gary Grenda Destiny Strothers Ryan Opera Center Michael A. Manfrin Kristine Anderson Adam Stubitsch The Ryan Opera Center Board Robert Reynolds Scott Barker Mary Kate Vom Lehn Endowed Chair Assistant Electricians Louie Barrios Claire Watkins Craig Terry Breena Cope Caitlin Watts Music Director Jason Combs Tracy Curran Samantha Westlake The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Thomas Fernandez Dawn Marie Hamilton Ticket Staff Julia Faulkner Thomas Hull Charlie Junke Director of Vocal Studies Daniel Kuh Kim Kostera Emily Crisp Jeremy Thomas Alexandra Madda The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ed Mack Jose Villalpando Wendy McCay Margaret Reberg TECHNICAL Electricians Lyric Concierge Representatives Michael Smallwood John Salyers Chris Valente OPERATIONS Vice President and Technical Director The Allan and Elaine Muchin Joe Schofield Roger Weir Nicholas Ivor Martin Dressers Vice President, Artistic Operations and Endowed Chair Head Audio Technician Labor Strategy April Busch Nick Charlan Stephanie Karr Technical Operations Director Matt Ebel Sarah Hatten Senior Director of Music Administration Michael Schoenig Kelvin Ingram Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Wendy Skoczen Technical Finance Director Audio Technicians The Marlys Beider Endowed Chair Chief Librarian Madeleine Borg Kathleen A. Evans Tabitha Boorsma Production Manager – Lyric Unlimited Maria DeFabo Akin Department Coordinator Operations Associate and Ryan Opera Center Props and Scenic Art Director Gretchen Meyerhoefer Amanda Clark Music Administration Associate Charles Reilly Chantelle Marie Johnson Janis Sakai Scott Wolfson Property Master Lynn Koroulis Music Administration Coordinator Associate Technical Director Michael McPartlin Robert Kuper Stephen Snyder Properties Crew Head Lana McKinnon PRESENTATIONS AND EVENTS Technical Coordinator Claire Moores Rich Regan Phil Marcotte Joe Dockweiler Staff Vice President and General Manager, Prop Carpenter Master Carpenter Presentations and Events Bob Ladd DeShawn Bowman Mike Reilly Sharon Lomasney Armorer Brittany Crinson Head Flyman/Automation Director of Presentations and Events Rachel Boultinghouse Eric Daniels Nora O’Malley Jeffrey Streichhirsch Upholsterer Anelle Eorio Director of Facility Operations Automation Assistant June Gearon Leslie MacLean Chris Barker Thomas Coleman, Jr. David Grant Facilities Coordinator Matt Reilly Robert Hartge Briette Madrid Eleanor Sanchez Rigging/Automation Assistants Richard Tyriver Patrick Munoz Presentations and Events Coordinator Assistant Properties Nelson Posada Stephen Dunford Brian Grenda Michael Buerger Jada Richardson Chief Engineer Lela Rosenberg Gregg Brody Layout Carpenter Joseph Collins Bridget Ryzmski Box Office Manager Gordon Granger Drew Trusk Rebecca Scott Bernard McNeela Shop Welder Nick Malloy Engineer Joe Mathesius Melanie Shaw Bruce Woodruff Kacy Tatus Briette Madrid Layout Welder John Miulli Stage Door Supervisor Michael O’Donnell, Jr. Pat Tomlinson Nathan Tuttle Properties Anita Trojanowski Facilities Porter Wig and Makeup Crew

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 13 Nearly Ready for Prime Time Behind the scenes before final dress rehearsals at Lyric

By Magda Krance ostumed and coiffed performers sing and act In opera, the final dress rehearsal is essentially a compellingly onstage at the Lyric Opera House -- at preview performance for an audience of company and Cleast until the director’s booming voice on the “god board members, sponsors, and invited guests. Everything mic” requests a do-over. Some time later, a minor technical and everyone is in virtually finished form, except that the malfunction prompts a halt. The stage manager comes out in orchestra and conductor skip the formal attire they’ll wear a headset mic to confer with the maestro, director, assistant for performances. director, and assorted others who emerge from the wings to The PRT less than a week earlier is something else solve the problem while the performers onstage and the lone entirely - the very first time everyone onstage wears full pianist in the orchestra pit cool their heels. And so it goes for costume/wigs/makeup while singing and moving about the five long hours, albeit with intermittent breaks. stage. It’s the very first time the creative team and backstage What is going on here? staff can assess whether everything looks and works as The nearly-ready-for-prime-time piano dress rehearsal, intended. Do costumes or makeup need adjusting? Did a.k.a. the piano run-through (PRT). It’s a bit like seeing a someone just slip on that step? Why is the light focused painter’s cartoon; you get the idea, but it’s a long way from on the table and not on the soprano? Dozens of eyes in the the completed canvas. theater and in the wings track every detail onstage to catch and correct potential problems. CORY WEAVER CORY

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Longjohns

No Decorativelures

LongjohnsNo Decorative lures

Work in progress, down to the wire: members of Die Walküre’s Adam Plachetka/Papageno lost his longjohns and Diana Newman/Papagena creative team, stage managers, and stagehands on the set. gained some decorative midriff lures between the PRT (top) and final dress rehearsal (bottom) of The Magic Flute.

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(Left) Petticoat junction: dresser Terese Cullen with oversized undergarments for Marina Rebeka’s big scene in Act Two of La traviata, which accidentally consumed a chair during the PRT; (center) director Tim Albery and assistant director Katrina Bachus onstage for the Les Troyens PRT to work through the staging with Susan Graham (Dido), who had just joined the cast; (right) technical adjustments during the PRT for Die Walküre ensured that Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund) could

A PRT proceeds in fits and starts. Scattered Lyric staff from the top of the other, which is probably why Tim was up there so much, helping on down watch the proceedings in a state of high alert, scribbling endless me learn the staging at the eleventh hour.” That would be director Tim notes and calculating what it’ll take to get the show ready for the final Albery, who barely left the stage during the marathon rehearsal. dress rehearsal and opening performance. In this season’s new production of Die Walküre, concerns about A few seasons back, Marina Rebeka’s tsunami of petticoats the stability of Hunding’s table - upon which Brandon Jovanovich inadvertently swept up a chair and dragged it across the stage during La (Siegmund) leapt at a full run - caused a brief halt to the first PRT’s first traviata’s PRT. The soprano recalls, “The dress I wore for Flora’s ball was act. (Extra-long operas, and sometimes new productions, get two PRTs.) so huge that they had to redo it several times, calculating how heavy it Director David Pountney, associate director Rob Kearley, and assistant was, so that it wouldn’t drag me to the floor!” When Violetta faints after director Katrina Bachus joined stage manager John Coleman onstage Alfredo insults her, Rebeka worried she wouldn’t be able to get back to to assess the situation. Technicians checked the hidden mechanism to her feet while managing the massive gown, which weighed “around 8kg.” ensure Elisabet Strid (Sieglinde) would be able to firmly secure the table Adjustments ensured no artists (or set elements) were harmed in the dress after rolling it into position. The leap provoked astonished gasps at rehearsal and performances. every performance as the lanky tenor sang passionately while making his An artist’s schedule may necessitate arriving late in the month-long boundingly smooth move. rehearsal process - sometimes just before the PRT. Lyric’s recent Calaf, Jovanovich recalls the PRT’s “table incident. Elisabet had only a few Stefano La Colla, wrapped up performances of at on moments to push it into place and then depress a ‘knob’ on one of the November 19, arrived in Chicago Thanksgiving week, and jumped in the drawers that activated an air release system used to lower and raise the metaphorical deep end with the Turandot PRT on Nov. 27. Annotated table. She hadn’t depressed it fully. The second issue was with placement, score in hand, assistant director David Toulson guided the tenor through as the location of the table was once too far stage right and the ‘field of the staging, paving the way for a smooth dress rehearsal and successful love’ pasture couldn’t move because the pulley system was inhibited by U.S. debut. the table. Then the table was too far stage left the next time and I could For last season’s Les Troyens, a late cast change brought mezzo- barely reach over to pull out the sword. Both of these were resolved and soprano Susan Graham to town for Lyric’s brand-new production and never bothered us again.” company premiere of Berlioz’s epic opera. Graham had portrayed Dido The vagaries of stage fog reveal themselves during PRTs. Jovanovich previously in Paris, New York, and San Francisco, but had to learn her remembers that in Lyric’s new production of Rusalka, “when Ana María way around the new set in costume for the first time during the PRT. “I [Martínez] appeared in Act Three at the pond, the first PRT had so much have absolutely no recollection of it, since I was thrown into it basically a fog onstage that I wouldn’t have been able to see a car with headlights. day before!” Graham recounts. “I was just trying to put one foot in front She was back there somewhere, but we needed to find a balance between

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leap safely onto the table to claim his promised sword and sister-bride Sieglinde (Elisabet Strid) while the scenery shifted around them; (above) My Fair Lady cast members had a scant nine minutes to change from racetrack to ballroom attire; (right) at one of the two PRTs for the world premiere of Bel Canto, Derek Matson (seated), who adapted Nilo Cruz's libretto for surtitles, discusses the script with (left to right) Cruz, composer Jimmy López, and Lyric general director Anthony Freud.

‘mood’ fog and ‘functional’ fog.” With prompt technical tweaks, the people which ring of the skirt to pick up. With a revival you know where principals could see each other, and be seen by the audience. the problems are and solve them before they crop up.” New productions Performers, the creative team, and Lyric staff may have a general can match first-time parenthood for anxious anticipation, but the payoff sense of what a production’s sets and costumes look like, “but sometimes is worth it: Sir David McVicar’s production of Elektra, once everything you don’t know what the effect is until the PRT,” says Elise Sandell, a came together, “was jaw-dropping and so much fun,” Sandell recalls. frequent assistant director for Lyric productions. The chorus members During a PRT “you have to manage everybody’s time,” she “always get so excited, seeing each other in costumes for the first time. continues. “I make a schedule with the stage manager, who is the king They take a lot of selfies. It adds a level of fun to PRTs. It’s a challenge when the show is onstage - it’s as much the stage manager’s rehearsal - either you wear the costume or the costume wears you! The chorus during the PRT as the director’s.” Each production presents its own members have to assimilate the costumes in a very short time; they’re in special challenges. “For My Fair Lady there were 350 costumes on about full costume only for the PRT and for the final dress rehearsal” before the 80 people - so many costume changes, eight different scenes in the performances commence. For the stage-orchestra rehearsals in between, show, all the moving scenery which has to be lit in different positions the soloists wear costumes, while the chorus members are in street clothes. with different timings and different effects - with dancing added in,” The assistant director sits with the production director and designers Sandell recounts. “For the world premiere of Bel Canto, almost everybody at the tech table in the middle of the main-floor seating area during was onstage the whole time, which made it logistically impossible to tech. the PRT, shuttling back and forth to the stage as needed. Sandell gets A PRT is the day everybody works the hardest, the full gamut of every through PRTs with “LaraBars and trail mix, and you have to hydrate. The department that touches the onstage product - dressers, props crew, most important thing for keeping calm is lots of deep breaths. It’s easy stage managers, singers, music staff.” for everyone’s fuses to get short. I’ve learned from working at Lyric that Eric Weimer of Lyric’s music staff notes that a PRT is the first time to how I see a challenge, how I meet it, and how I choose to talk about it hear the offstage musicians that many operatic scores require. “Do they need can either make everyone’s day better or worse. I try to keep my attitude to sound like they’re in the next room or the next county?” he quips. Those optimistic and realistic. You have to crawl before you can walk, and musicians’ audibility is affected by set design and location. “Those of us who walk before you can run. A PRT is crawling, with a little standing and are pianists have a romantic notion of the PRT - it’s our chance to play, walking, so that you can run by dress rehearsal.” and as close as we get to public performance. In our minds it’s a big thing!” PRTs for revivals of productions previously staged at Lyric and On the other hand, Weimer realizes, for nearly everyone else the PRT “is elsewhere are generally easier than for new productions, Sandell observes. not about the music. A lot of the singers aren’t singing out. They’re more “Someone’s worn that costume before, and there are notes. With all the concerned with ‘What do I do with my train?’ ‘My gown doesn’t fit!’ ‘What hoop skirts in Eugene Onegin, Act Two, director Paula Suozzi could tell do I do with my sword?’ - the details of the production.”

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(Left) Sir Andrew Davis during the PRT for Les Troyens; (center) although the staging seemed airy and minimalistic, Eugene Onegin had an extensive and complicated props list, encompassing a rustic table, bowls, potatoes, apples, knives, piles of books, an oil lamp, pitcher, and writing table; and dozens chairs; (right) blood test: during Das Rheingold’s PRT, Samuel Youn endures costume adjustments before Alberich’s big fight to keep the ring.

Longtime Lyric dresser John Salyers remembers that in Das being more efficient. The dressers aren’t bombarded by 21 women at once Rheingold, Wotan and Alberich’s shocking fight for the ring went back - they get 10 and the wig-makeup crew get 11, and then they swap.” to the drawing board after the PRT. “The director and designer wanted Richard E. Grant’s PJs also needed work, Henneberry recalls. As lots of blood when Alberich’s arm was ripped off, so we had to figure out Henry Higgins, “he changed from pajamas to a linen suit just offstage of how to accomplish that in a simple way and also make sure that the arm the doorway in Act Two. I was behind the wall with him, his dresser John would come off easily, yet not fall off unintentionally before the effect Salyers, and props assistant Mike Berger with shoehorn and toothbrush. was to happen. After a huge effort to get it to work, it was decided with My job was to make sure they all did the right things at the right time, the color of the stage floor the audience wouldn’t see the blood, so that and that they gave Mr. Grant his cue lines in a stage whisper, a helpful aspect was removed and we then focused on just making sure the arm reminder while he was dressing. During the PRT he was fumbling with would come off when it was supposed to.” the buttons on his pajamas,” so they were switched to Velcro. “It looked Rachel Henneberry, both a stage manager and assistant stage buttoned, but we could rip it apart offstage.” manager (ASM) at Lyric, remembers that for My Fair Lady she was stage- For Eugene Onegin, Henneberry oversaw props paperwork. “That right ASM “in charge of wardrobe paperwork - entrances, exits, how was a very props-heavy show, with lots of chairs, apples being peeled, much time for each change, working out where and how to do changes bread, tables, leaves laid out by the props staff for the opening scene.” [with wardrobe director Maureen Reilly] for everyone in the show - Because it was a revival, there were existing photos and notes about the principals, supernumeraries, chorus, dancers. The most complicated pre-sets and special handoffs, “like a tea-tray an artist needed to have change was going from Ascot to Ball, where literally everyone but put in hand by a props person. Much invisible teamwork goes on. You Donald Maxwell [as Alfred Doolittle] and Bryce Pinkham [as Freddy fine-tune during the PRT; you’re onstage under show conditions for the Eynsford-Hill] had to change. The majority had nine minutes for a first time -- you’ve got to work it out on the spot.” PRTs can be “like complete change, including tiaras and other accessories. Some had less wrangling a preschool class. You know who’s walking in the door but you than four minutes. You have an army of crew who literally help cast don’t know what’s going to happen. Then you punt, figure it out, and fly.” members dress as quickly as they can, to motivate wig changes, adding tiaras, and keeping people on focus so they can get right back onstage. Magda Krance is Lyric’s director of media relations. Prior to joining the “In doing that change for the first time during the PRT, you realize company in 1992, she was a fulltime freelance journalist for you can do certain things to make the change go faster, like having ten The New York , and other publications. women go to have their tiaras put on first, then add their dresses - that’s Times, Time, People, Chicago Tribune

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO ROBERT KUSEL

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte

Production Sponsors

THE NEGAUNEE RANDY L. AND MARION A. NANCY AND FOUNDATION MELVIN BERLIN CAMERON SANFRED KOLTUN

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Così fan tutte Synopsis

None of the three women penetrate the rejects Ferrando, for the time being. TIME: disguises of Ferrando and Guglielmo. Ferrando and Guglielmo exchange August 1914 Fiordiligi and Dorabella are notes on their progress. Ferrando is offended to see the strange men and furious, and Guglielmo is triumphant PLACE: repelled by their advances. They declare but brutally dismissive of the fallen A hotel at a Mediterranean resort fidelity to their lovers. The young men Dorabella. are delighted, but Don Alfonso is quite Despina and Dorabella put pressure relaxed. on Fiordiligi. Fiordiligi decides she must ACT ONE The sisters continue to grieve. The run away to join Guglielmo at war, but Don Alfonso is trying to enlighten two rejected strangers return to them, Ferrando confronts her again and she too Ferrando and Guglielmo as to the true swallow “poison” and collapse. The yields. Agonized, Guglielmo witnesses nature of women. He places a bet that he terrified girls call for Despina, who goes it all. Don Alfonso has proven his point can prove their fiancées, Fiordiligi and with Don Alfonso to find a doctor. and won the bet. Dorabella, are not the icons of purity the Fiordiligi and Dorabella try to help the Don Alfonso and Despina arrange men believe them to be. Both sides are “dying” strangers. Don Alfonso returns for the new couples to be “married” by confident of victory within twenty-four with Despina disguised as a doctor who Despina disguised as a notary. As the hours. claims to cure everything by magnetism. girls sign their names, a military band Sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella are The men revive, and believing they are is heard. Apparently the soldiers have celebrating the perfection of their lovers. in heaven, demand a kiss from their returned unexpectedly. In the confusion, Don Alfonso arrives and tells them that “angels” Fiordiligi and Dorabella. The the two men disappear, re-emerging their men have been called up and must sisters manage to resist again. without their disguises. Shocked at leave immediately for the battlefront. The the evidence of a wedding they swear men enact a farewell scene and “go off to ACT TWO vengeance on their rivals. war.” The women are devastated, but the Despina persuades the sisters to befriend The plot is revealed. All four lovers’ maid Despina tells them to look on the their new admirers. They decide on certainties have been destroyed. No one bright side and have a good time in their preferences — Dorabella chooses quite knows what to feel, except that absence – in other words, behave exactly Guglielmo; Fiordiligi, Ferrando. Each has certainly human nature has been at work. as men would. instinctively chosen the other’s partner. Don Alfonso and Despina work Don Alfonso and Despina cement the (Synopsis reprinted by permission of San together to this end. Don Alfonso new love affairs in the context of a Francisco Opera.) introduces two Albanian friends whom masquerade. The couples pair up and Despina in turn introduces to the sisters. Dorabella yields to Guglielmo. Fiordiligi

COSÌ FAN TUTTE – Approximate Timings

ACT ONE 90 minutes

Intermission 30 minutes

ACT TWO 85 minutes

Total: 3 hours and 25 minutes

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• Così fan tutte is a joint production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Opéra de Monte Carlo and

San Francisco Opera. COSÌ FAN TUTTE

Opera in two acts in Italian • Additional costumes provided by

San Diego Opera Costume Shop. Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

First performed at the Burgheater, Vienna, on January 26, 1790 • The Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on November 9, 1959 are generously sponsored by The

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family, Characters in order of vocal appearance:

The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Ferrando ANDREW STENSON Guglielmo JOSHUA HOPKINS Family, and The John and Jacolyn Don Alfonso ALESSANDRO CORBELLI Bucksbaum Foundation. Fiordiligi ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ Dorabella MARIANNE CREBASSA

• Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully Despina ELENA TSALLAGOVA**

acknowledges the support of the Conductor JAMES GAFFIGAN* Regenstein Foundation Mozart Original Director JOHN COX Endowed Chair in honor of Revival Director BRUNO RAVELLA

Ruth Regenstein. Set and Costume Designer ROBERT PERDZIOLA Lighting Designer CHRIS MARAVICH Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN

its Official Airline, American Airlines. Assistant Director DAVID CARL TOULSON Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN Stage Band Conductor STEVEN MOSTELLER • This season’s projected English titles Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM are funded in part by a generous grant NOAH LINDQUIST

from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Recitative Accompanist WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Deutsch Foundation. Projected Titles FRANCIS RIZZO

• Projected English titles © 1993 by *Lyric debut **U. S. debut Francis Rizzo.

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 23 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO

ANA MARÍA MARIANNE ELENA MARTÍNEZ CREBASSA TSALLAGOVA (Fiordiligi) (Dorabella) (Despina) Previously at Lyric: Previously at Lyric: U. S. debut Seven roles since Stephano/Romeo and 2008/09, most Juliet (2015/16). The lyric soprano recently Tatyana/ recently made her Eugene Onegin (2016/17); Concert with The French mezzo-soprano, who scored a North American debut as Pamina/The Plácido Domingo (2015/16); Donna great success previously as Dorabella at the Magic Flute with the Canadian Opera Elvira/ (2014/15). Opéra Municipal de Marseille, will be heard Company, Toronto. This season, Tsallagova this season as Irene/Handel’s Tamerlano (La will sing Berthe/Le prophète, Liù/Turandot, Performing an exceptionally diverse Scala), Sesto/La clemenza di Tito (Opéra and Corinna/Il viaggio a Reims, all with the repertoire, the Puerto Rican-born soprano National de Paris), and Mélisande/Pelléas Deutsche Oper Berlin. Born in Russia, she is internationally recognized as one of et Mélisande (Berlin State Opera). At just studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. today’s most remarkable artists. Highlights 21, while studying musicology, voice, On graduating she performed several roles of the current season include reprises of and piano in Montpellier, Crebassa was at the Mariinsky Theatre, also winning first (LA Opera), Rusalka (Teatro engaged by that city’s opera company for prize in the Rachmaninoff vocal competition. Colón – Buenos Aires), and Alice Ford/ Schumann’s Manfred. She returns annually In 2008 Tsallagova was invited to sing the Falstaff (Covent Garden). Martínez’s roles to Montpellier’s Opéra and Festival de Radio title role/The Cunning Little Vixenat the extend stylistically from Mozart’s Fiordiligi France, where most recently she sang the Opéra National de Paris (DVD), a role to (Salzburg, Ravinia, DVD), Countess title role/Offenbach’s Fantasio. Following which she returned last season for her Opéra Almaviva (Houston, Munich), and Pamina her success as Isabella/Wuthering Heights in National du Rhin debut. She had a two- (San Francisco, Vienna, Bonn, Stuttgart) 2010, Crebassa was engaged by the Opéra year contract with Munich’s Bavarian State to Rossini’s Rosina (Houston, Santa Fe); National de Paris’s Atelier Lyrique two-year Opera, where she sang Despina, Sophie/ Donizetti’s Paolina/Poliuto (Glyndebourne, program, appearing as Gluck’s Orphée and Werther, Nannetta/Falstaff, Zerlina/Don DVD); Verdi’s Violetta (Covent Garden, Ramiro/La finta giardiniera, as well as on Giovanni and Musetta/La bohème. She was Los Angeles), (Paris, Berlin) and the Opéra’s mainstage in Lulu, Rigoletto, invited back in 2015 to sing Mélisande, Amelia Grimaldi (Paris, Los Angeles, San and . She debuted at the which she has also sung three times at the Francisco); Puccini’s Mimì (Paris, Berlin, Salzburg Festival as Handel’s Irene and Opéra National de Paris (DVD). Now a Dresden, Santa Fe, San Juan), Butterfly returned as Cecilio/Lucio Silla, the title company favorite at the Deutsche Oper (a recent triumph at the Met and Covent role of Marc André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Berlin, Tsallagova has performed there as Garden, also Vienna, Houston, Washington, Salomon (world premiere) and Sesto/La Micaëla/Carmen, Adina/L’elisir d’amore, Munich) and Liù (Amsterdam); and French demenza di Tito. Further appearances have Gilda/Rigoletto, Echo/, heroines including Carmen (Houston, Santa included Cherubino/ Oscar/, Nannetta, Fe), Antonia (Paris), Micaëla (Metropolitan (Berlin State Opera, debut), Cecilio/Lucio Pamina, and Liù. During the 2015/16 Opera), Mélisande (Florence), and Blanche Silla (La Scala, debut), and Siébel/Faust season, she sang Marfa/The Tsar’s Brideat (Hamburg). Last season Martínez returned (Dutch National Opera). Last year the the Berlin State Opera – her first Russian to Mozart’s Donna Elvira in San Francisco. mezzo-soprano’s first solo disc, Oh, Boy!, role in Europe. Concert performances The soprano has appeared with many major a recital of arias for trouser roles, received include the Lucerne Festival (Bach cantatas, orchestras, including those of Milan (La the prestigious 2017 Echo Klassik Award Rachmaninoff’s The Bells). Scala), Berlin, Moscow, New York, and for Solo Recording (Voice). Her new disc, Boston. Last summer she joined frequent Secrets, has just been released. concert partner Plácido Domingo for a zarzuela gala at the Arena di Verona. Highlights of Martínez’s varied discography include Manon Lescaut, Pagliacci, and a recital of arias and songs.

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ANDREW JOSHUA HOPKINS ALESSANDRO STENSON (Guglielmo) CORBELLI (Ferrando) Previously at Lyric: (Don Alfonso) Previously at Lyric: Mercutio/Romeo and Previously at Lyric: Gen Watanabe/Bel Juliet (2015/16); Seven roles since Canto (2015/16, world Tadeusz/The Passenger 1986/87, most premiere). (2014/15). recently Don Magnifico/Cinderella (2015/16); Bartolo/ The American tenor was recently heard The Canadian ’s major successes The Barber of Seville(2013/14); Dr. at Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera include numerous performances of four Dulcamara/L’elisir d’amore (2009/10). (Ernesto/Jacopo Foroni’s Margherita) and Mozart roles: Guglielmo (Frankfurt), England’s Glyndebourne Festival (Ernesto/ Don Giovanni (Salt Lake City), Count Long celebrated worldwide for the Mozart, ). Last season Stenson sang Almaviva (Glyndebourne, Dallas, Verbier Rossini, and Donizetti comic repertoire, this Tamino/The Magic Flute (Seattle Opera), Festival), and Papageno (Santa Fe, season the Italian baritone will reprise his Frederic/The Pirates of Penzance (Palm Washington, Toronto). Highlights of definitive portrayals of Don Geronio/Il turco Beach Opera), and the title role/Candide Hopkins’s 2017/18 season include Rossini’s in Italia (Amsterdam’s National Opera), the (both Opéra National de Bordeaux and Figaro (Oslo), Mercutio/Romeo and Juliet title role/Don Pasquale (Vienna State Opera), Théâtre du Capitole). Stenson has been a (), and baritone soloist/ and Taddeo/L’italiana in Algeri (Salzburg Young Artist with ’s Messiah (Toronto Symphony Orchestra). Festival, opposite Cecilia Bartoli). Corbelli’s Merola Opera Program (Postcard from He has also been heard in roles as varied pre-eminence in Rossini comedies has Morocco), The Santa Fe Opera (Head Man/ as Dr. Falke/Die Fledermaus (Santa Fe), included recent performances as Magnifico The Letter), Glimmerglass Opera (Martin/ Argante/Rinaldo (Glyndebourne), Cecil/ with the Munich, Metropolitan, Vienna, The Tender Land, Jimmy O’Keffe/John Maria Stuarda (Met, company premiere), and LA opera companies. The Turin-born Musto’s Later the Same Evening), Seattle Marcello/La bohème (Houston, Toronto), artist is also his generation’s most acclaimed Opera (Arturo/, title Sid/Albert Herring (Santa Fe), and Junior/ interpreter of Bartolo/The Barber of Seville role/Werther, Ernesto/Don Pasquale), and Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (New York City (most recently Glyndebourne, Lyric, Covent the Met’s Lindemann Program (Beppe/ Opera). On the concert stage, Hopkins Garden, and the major houses of Palermo, Paglicacci, Demetrius/The Enchanted Island). has been featured with the New York Toulouse, and Los Angeles), Dulcamara/ Among other important operatic credits are Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, L’elisir d’amore (Lyric, Met, Madrid, Tonio/La fille du régiment, (Seattle Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra of Leipzig, Barcelona, San Francisco, Houston, Washington National Opera), Belmonte/The St. Luke’s, Cleveland Orchestra, Canada’s among other houses), Sulpice/La fille du Abduction from the Seraglio (Utah Opera), National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Spain’s régiment (Covent Garden, Paris, Met), and Danny Chen/Huang Ruo’s An American Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Don Pasquale (the recent Glyndebourne Soldier (Washington National Opera), and Asturias. At Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, production mounted especially for him Brighella/Ariadne auf Naxos (Glyndebourne he premiered Michael Tilson Thomas’s is available on DVD). Also renowned as debut). Stenson is an alumnus of Luther Rilke Songs and collaborated with tenor Don Alfonso (Vienna), Falstaff (Toulouse, College and the University of Cincinnati Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake in Glyndebourne), and Gianni Schicchi College-Conservatory. Winner of a Sara music of Benjamin Britten. The baritone (Met, Turin, Glyndebourne), Corbelli has Tucker Study Grant from the Richard has recorded a solo CD, Let Beauty Awake, triumphed in sterner roles such as Sharpless/ Tucker Foundation and a Richard F. featuring songs of Barber, Bowles, Glick, Madama Butterfly (Torre del Lago) and, at Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana and Vaughan Williams. Hopkins is a winner Covent Garden, both Michonnet/Adriana Foundation, Stenson was a major award of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and Lecouvreur and the Marquis/Linda di winner in the Opera Index competition holds the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award Chamounix. The baritone’s close association and second-prize winner in both the Queen from the Canada Council for the Arts. with Covent Garden includes nearly 100 Sonja International Vocal Competition performances since his 1988 debut as and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Rossini’s Taddeo. Corbelli appears in 20 competition. roles on CD and eight on DVD.

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JAMES JOHN COX BRUNO RAVELLA GAFFIGAN (Original Director) (Revivial Director) (Conductor) Previously at Lyric: Previously at Lyric: Lyric debut Four operas since Ariadne auf Naxos 1994/95, most (2011/12, Associate The American conductor’s recently Capriccio Director). operatic successes include (2014/15, 1994/95); appearances at Glyndebourne (Cosi fan tutte, Ariadne auf Naxos (2011/12, 1998/99); Born in Casablanca of Italian and Polish La Cenerentola, Falstaff), Den Norske Così fan tutte (2006/07). parents, the director was educated mainly Opera (La traviata), and the state operas in France and is a longtime resident of of Vienna (La bohème, Don Giovanni, The The internationally celebrated director London. Last year he made his Italian Marriage of Figaro), Hamburg (Salome), and began his professional career in opera at directing debut at the Opera di Firenze/ Bavaria (Don Giovanni). Currently chief Glyndebourne in 1959. The next ten years Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (La bohème). conductor of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, he divided among directing plays, opera, Highlights in 2016 included L’heure espagnole/ Gaffigan is also principal guest conductor of and television before spending a decade as Gianni Schicchi (Opéra National de Lorraine), the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. He Glyndebourne’s director of productions. His Macbeth (Iford Arts), and Cavalleria rusticana/ has earned acclaim for guest engagements own work there included operas of Mozart, Pagliacci (Hampstead Garden Opera in their with the London, Dresden, Czech, and Rossini and Haydn, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s new North London home). Ravella made Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras; the Progress with David Hockney’s designs, his Garsington Opera directing debut with a Vienna Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, and six Strauss comedies. Cox is former critically and publicly acclaimed production Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, general administrator and artistic director of Strauss’s Intermezzo. He has worked as Zurich Tonhalle, City of Birmingham of Scottish Opera (productions included revival, associate, or assistant director for Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age the first U. K. staging of the completeLulu ) such major companies as the Royal Opera of Enlightenment, and Orchestre de Paris; and former principal stage director at the House/Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and the Leipzig, Berlin, and Stuttgart Radio Royal Opera (Guillaume Tell, Capriccio, Il the major houses of Sydney, Buenos Aires, Orchestras; and the leading orchestras of viaggio a Reims, Eugene Onegin, Die Frau Monte Carlo, Parma, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and ohne Schatten). Freelance work includes Geneva, among others. Ravella has worked Washington, among others. Highlights this houses as large as La Scala and the Met, and with many major directors, among them John season include his Santa Fe Opera debut as small as Drottningholm and the Opéra de Cox, Sir David McVicar, Robert Carsen, (Ariadne auf Naxos), his return to the Vienna Monte Carlo; in places as far apart as Tehran Barrie Kosky, John Copley, and Nicholas State Opera (La traviata), and appearances and Honolulu; in standard repertoire (La Hytner. Upcoming projects this season with many major orchestras worldwide, traviata, Salzburg) and in rarities (Pizzetti’s include Werther (Opéra National de Lorraine) including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Murder in the Cathedral, Turin; Barber’s and Falstaff (Garsington Opera).Ravella was A former first-prize winner in the Sir Georg Vanessa, Strasbourg, Los Angeles). Cox has nominated for the prestigious Independent Solti International Conducting Competition, enjoyed longstanding relationships with Opera Director Fellowship in 2015. Gaffigan was also a conducting fellow at the Monte Carlo, San Francisco, and Sydney, Tanglewood Music Center, a participant and most recently with Garsington Opera. ROBERT in the Aspen Festival’s American Academy In addition to this season’s Thaïs (Met), PERDZIOLA of Conducting, associate conductor of the recent productions include a Rake’s Progress (Set and Costume Designer) San Francisco Symphony, and assistant revival (Glyndebourne), Ariadne auf Naxos Previously at Lyric: conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. and (Houston), Capriccio (Opera Four productions since Australia), and Fidelio and The Marriage of 1998/99, most recently Figaro (both for Garsington). See Director’s Capriccio (2014/15); Note, p. 34. Ariadne auf Naxos (2011/12, 1998/99); Carmen (2010/11, 2005/06).

In addition to Lyric’s 2006/07 revival, the American designer’s sets and costumes for Così fan tutte have previously been seen

26 | February 17 - March 16, 2018 PROFILES | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO at San Francisco Opera and the Opéra Giovanni, Nixon in China, and Attila. He movie theaters as well as on television. de Monte Carlo. Stylistically Perdziola’s has collaborated on the lighting designs He has also been a lecturer at the Sydney operatic repertoire is remarkably varied, for Doktor Faust at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Conservatorium of Music, of which he is in recent seasons encompassing works Tannhäuser at the Greek National Opera, an alumnus. Black holds a master’s degree as diverse as Giulio Cesare (Fort Worth and La fanciulla del West, The Makropulos in musicology from the University of New Opera), Alcina (Indiana University), Case, The Daughter of the Regiment, Il South Wales. Michael Black is the Howard and The Marriage of Figaro (Garsington trovatore, Samson et Dalila, and Macbeth A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair. Opera); Beatrice and Benedict (Opera at San Francisco Opera. Maravich has also Boston) and Faust (Festival Internacional de designed lighting for Opera Colorado, SARAH HATTEN Macau); Falstaff (Performing Arts Centre, San Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, (Wigmaster and Matsumoto) and (Cincinnati Opera). Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Florida Grand Makeup Designer) Perdziola’s collaboration with director John Opera, Madison Opera, Cal Performances, Wigmaster and Cox for Ariadne auf Naxos triumphed in and Opera San Jose. makeup designer that production’s Lyric premiere, as well since 2011/12. as in subsequent revivals at San Francisco MICHAEL BLACK Opera and Houston Grand Opera. The (Chorus Master) Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer designer’s work has also been seen at the Chorus master since has worked in a wide repertoire at Des Metropolitan Opera (Il pirata), Opera 2013/14; interim Moines Metro Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Il re pastore, Faust), chorus master, Theatre, as well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Santa Fe Opera (Arabella), Garsington 2011/12; 42 operas Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, and Opera (Così fan tutte), Hannover’s to date. the University of Cincinnati College- Niedersächsische Staatstheater (Faust), Conservatory of Music. She has also worked and Opera Australia (Arabella, winner of Chorus master from to 2001 to 2013 at at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major five Helpmann Awards). In addition to Opera Australia in Sydney, during his opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, an ongoing association with Washington’s tenure Black prepared the OA chorus for Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as Shakespeare Theatre Company (including more than 90 operas and many concert well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre Helen Hayes Awards for , The works. He has served in that capacity for and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre Country Wife, and Lady Windermere’s Fan), such distinguished organizations as the and the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned Perdziola has also designed for the Stratford Edinburgh International Festival, Opera a B. A. in music at Simpson College. Sarah Shakespeare Festival, American Ballet Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, Hatten is the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and Miami the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (including Makeup Designer Endowed Chair. City Ballet. Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, led by Vladimir Ashkenazy), the Philharmonia Choir, Motet CHRIS MARAVICH Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir. (Lighting Designer) Black has also worked with the Melbourne Previously at Lyric: Symphony Orchestra in Australia with Sir Supernumeraries Eight productions Andrew Davis. His recent activities include (Così fan tutte) since 2014/15, most preparing the Damnation of Faust chorus, recently I puritani, continuing his association with the Grant Angela Allyn Turandot, Rigoletto Park Music Festival, where he has worked James Edward Dauphin (all 2017/18). for two seasons. As one of Australia’s most Matt Goto prominent vocal accompanists, Black has Alicia Hilton Currently Lyric’s lighting director, Maravich regularly performed for broadcasts and Michael Ortyl served in the same position from 2006 to recordings (he has been heard numerous Kirk Osgood 2012 at San Francisco Opera, where he times in Australian Broadcast Corporation Bruno Rivera has created lighting for many productions programs). He has served as chorus master Jorge Santos including The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, on four continents, and his work has been Theo Vlahopoulos Così fan tutte, Turandot, Cyrano de Bergerac, recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC, Il trittico, Tosca, , Don PBS, and for many HD productions in

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Both Cynical and Heartfelt: The Enigma of Così fan tutte By Martha C. Nussbaum ALL PHOTOS BY DAN REST

The principals of Lyric’s previous presentation of John Cox’s production, 2006/07 season. Clockwise from top left: Erin Wall (Fiordiligi), Nathan Gunn (Guglielmo), Lauren McNeese (Dorabella), Sir Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso), Nuccia Focile (Despina), and Eric Cutler (Ferrando).

osì fan tutte, “Thus Do All Women” Lost in French! By now, however, the opera it is a felt dissonance between the heartless (subtitled “The School for Lovers”), in its original form has won its way into the spirit of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto and has now finally entered the Mozart repertory, and is always in the top twenty of the remarkable emotional expressivity of Ccanon. First performed on January 26, 1790, most-performed operas worldwide, though the music, especially in the second act. This at the Burgtheater in Vienna, it was initially ranking slightly below three other Mozart dissonance is then rendered more problematic well received, but had only five performances operas: The Magic Flute, The Marriage of still by the neat cookie-cutter ending in which during Mozart’s lifetime, on account of the Figaro, and Don Giovanni. The beauty of its everything snaps back to the way it was before death of the emperor Joseph II only a month music has won the hearts of audiences. Act Two. later, and the ensuing mourning period. Producers, critics, and audiences, Da Ponte’s libretto is polished, well- (Mozart died on December 5, 1791.) During however, continue to find Così a deeply constructed, witty, and cynical. Don Alfonso, the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries problematic work. The great critic Joseph the opera’s resident philosopher/observer/ it endured a long eclipse, being considered Kerman goes so far as to write, “Even the cynic, who creates the plan to test the fidelity offensive and immoral. Sometimes, loving the most devout Mozartian will have to admit that of the young women, opines that emotions music, people attempted to provide it with a there is something unsatisfactory about Così” are short-lived and fickle, but the libretto totally different libretto: in one version, the – which he calls “Mozart’s most problematic ultimately goes yet further, suggesting that text was that of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours work.” What is the problem? In essence, they are altogether unreal and factitious. Much

30 | February 17 - March 16, 2018 Not until 1922 did an American audience hear Così fan tutte. In the premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, English of the work’s humor, in Act One, derives humanity.) The contrast between Fiordiligi’s soprano Florence Easton (top) played from the fact that the women take their own Act One aria, where she is playing around Fiordiligi, Spanish soprano Lucrezia Bori emotions seriously, but we are urged to see that with ideas of constancy like a would-be drama (center) was Despina, and American they are only play-acting, imitating literary heroine, and this duet, with its soaring phrases soprano Frances Peralta (bottom, expressions of passion. (Singer-actresses have and tremulous expression of passion, could with Bori) portrayed Dorabella. a challenge: while acting they must create not be more striking – and moving, too, as HERMAN MISHKIN / METROPOLITAN OPERA ARCHIVES the impression of mere play-acting, and later if we are seeing a mature woman being born. on show how different that is from genuine Kerman seems to prefer the emotions of the feeling.) Throughout Act One, Mozart’s music serious pair to those of the comic pair simply serves Da Ponte’s cynical purpose quite well, because they are serious. Williams’s preference creating an artificial comedy with characters for the serious pair must be understood in who are essentially cardboard cutouts and connection with his often-expressed preference objects of knowing laughter (by Don Alfonso for Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde as the operatic and the knowing Despina, and by us). We paradigm of genuine love. (In introducing the know very little about the nature of Mozart posthumous collection in which his article on and Da Ponte’s collaboration, but we certainly Così appears, Williams’s widow notes that he have no evidence that, like Verdi, Mozart tested their budding relationship by taking her controlled the process and insisted on getting to a performance of Tristan, to see how much his way; Da Ponte’s letters suggest just the she loved it!) opposite, rightly or wrongly. But this is Mozart, the same Mozart who But Mozart cannot help taking emotions shows again and again that playfulness and seriously, and by Act Two his genius for humor can be a supreme expression of love’s emotional insight, range, and particularity reciprocity. (And isn’t this an important truth HERMAN MISHKIN / METROPOLITAN OPERA ARCHIVES takes over, breaking the clever mold and in real life?) So I propose (contra Williams subverting its purpose. In the other Da Ponte and Kerman, who are a bit contemptuous of operas, it is also true that Mozart supplies the more light-hearted lovers) that we also do emotional depth to texts that might have been justice to the other pair. The moment in all set otherwise. (Just imagine, for example, in opera that most unfailingly makes me weep for how many ways the text of Cherubino’s aria sheer joy at the precariousness and lovability “Voi che sapete” in The Marriage of Figaro of the world is Dorabella and Guglielmo’s might have been set, and how completely it Act Two duet, “ll core vi dono” (“I give you might have lacked the tender longing that it a heart”). The usual staging has him give her in fact expresses.) In Così, however, the music a heart-shaped locket as a token of love. She doesn’t just render emotionally determinate a accepts it, and they then joke that the heart that text that is indeterminate; it actually subverts was in one breast is now beating in the other’s: the entire point of the libretto. No, Don his heart (the locket) is now on her breast, and Alfonso, emotions are not just a game, they (she says) hers has now gone over there and is are real, and people have deep, interesting, and beating in his. The music first expresses tender highly individual emotional lives. playful alternation, and then, with the delicate In Act One, the girls are not very staccatos of the line “E batte così” (“And beats different from one another, and both play-act just so”), they are suddenly together. HERMAN MISHKIN / METROPOLITAN OPERA ARCHIVES at emotions with a grandiosity that signals an (That’s where I cry, invariably.) “O absence of authentic self-knowledge and real cambio felice,” “O happy exchange.” erotic experience. In Act Two, both discover Dorabella has already said that she depths of emotional response in themselves – chooses Guglielmo because he seems in highly particular ways. Both Kerman and more playful – and one is painfully philosopher Bernard Williams focus on the aware that Ferrando, her original fiancé, duet between Fiordiligi and Ferrando, “Fra gli was therefore utterly wrong for her (and amplessi” (“In the embraces”), which shows right for Fiordiligi), since he is all lofty Fiordiligi discovering love, and so discovering sentiment and no play. And now, with new capacities in herself. Emotions strike both Guglielmo, she suddenly finds what of the lovers as mysterious, but also as totally she wanted all along: in the intimacy of real and urgent, as real as anything in the world joking and play she finds love’s reality, can be. (And this is so, whether the emotions as the hearts change places and then actually last or not: so long as they exist, they somehow beat in harmony, though from are both real and at the core of the person’s the opposite place.

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Fiordiligi (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, left), happy and carefree in Act One. In Act Two, dressed in her fiancé Guglielmo’s cloak and hat, she is about to rush off to find him in battle when she is wooed by the disguised Ferrando (Léopold Simoneau): Così fan tutte at Lyric, 1959.

In effect, as Kerman wittily puts it, the and the message finally conveyed a very second act belongs not to Don Alfonso but to unpleasant one: as Williams puts it, “the idea “Don Wolfgango,” who, being himself, took that emotions are indeed deep, indeed based emotion very seriously – including its soaring on reality, but the world will go on as though heights but including, as well, its capacity for they were not, and the social order, which tender play – and probed the characters’ depths looks to things other than those emotional with varied and aching effect. By offering the forces, will win out.” We might even see in the maid Despina no corresponding individuality work a critique of the institution of marriage, that the reality of a real war lies behind the in passion, Mozart allows us to see that in this as inimical to genuine love, at least for women. comedy, and that this reality, leaving nothing world emotional individuality requires leisure Williams thinks that Mozart and Da as it was before, renders the ending yet darker. and may be incompatible with labor. Ponte collaboratively create this dark and John Cox, original director of this production, Act Two belongs to Mozart, but it must disturbing insight. I find more persuasive writes me that, as he sees it, the entire comedy end as Da Ponte wrote it. Although the work Kerman’s suggestion that the libretto is one “is played out on the edge of this abyss,” has been staged in multiple ways, we are thing, the music in some respects quite another, and that the darkness of the ending derives evidently supposed to think that the girls go and Mozart is trapped by the contrivance of from this background reality. This suggestion back to their original partners. (Alfonso tells the libretto, creating an ending that turns out (whether it’s about the libretto or the music, the lovers to marry the girls in spite of their jarring and unsatisfying. or both) dovetails with the ideas I have been fickleness, which implies that they take their And what of the war to which the men exploring, though it also suggests a different original partners back. This is also the “lesson” march off, to cheerful choral song in praise orientation for our attention. Such layers show intended from start to finish, in the libretto of the military life? Is that part of the comic the work’s multivocal richness. And they surely that is.) According to the libretto, there is no contrivance, or is it all too real? Might war not do not negate the music’s astonishing capacity loss, because all is convention and emotions be another way in which the conventions of for the expression of love’s risks and delights. are factitious anyway. But given the music the world treat human emotions as if they do of Act Two, the ending is deeply disturbing, not matter? The present production suggests

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Così fan tutte at Lyric, 1987/88: Modern Match - Così fan tutte and She's the Man (middle) Don Alfonso (Timothy Nolen) offers a gold piece to Despina (Marie The theme of mistaken identity has been intriguing audiences for centuries, from McLaughlin); (bottom) the disguised Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors to Disney’s The Parent Trap. Mozart’s Così fan tutte is no Ferrando (Jerry Hadley, far left) exception as the two officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, disguise themselves from their and Guglielmo (Alan Titus, far right) with Don fiancées in a need to prove that Don Alfonso is wrong. The (unbelievable) disguises of Alfonso and Despina, Così fan tutte and the overall use of mistaken identity isn’t unlike that of DreamWorks’s the latter disguised hit romantic comedy of 2006, She’s the Man, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth as a quack doctor. Night. The opera and the film both begin with commentary on the nature of women: Don Alfonso asserts to the two young men that women are fickle, including their fiancées. In She’s the Man, Viola is denied the chance to play for the men’s soccer team because the coach believes women simply aren’t as athletic as men. According to Alfonso and the soccer coach, women are weak. This leads to an explicit need to prove these doubters wrong. Ferrando and Guglielmo agree to Alfonso’s bet, claiming their fiancées are faithful. They disguise themselves as “Albanians,” who will woo the sisters while their fiancés (that is, their true identities) are away at war. Similarly, Viola decides to prove the coach wrong by going to an all-boys boarding school and joining their soccer team. She does this by disguising herself as her twin brother, Sebastian. The characters all use disguises to help prove their point. In recent decades the ending of Così has been staged different ways: although most often the couples return to their original partners after Don Alfonso wins his best, sometimes the young women go with their new partners, and some directors have them all go their separate ways with no one united at the end. The DreamWorks film has an unambiguously happy ending: Viola’s identity is revealed when Sebastian comes back to school. She can then prove that, as a woman, she was good enough to play on a men’s soccer team and confess her love to Duke, giving her a win-win situation. Perhaps mistaken identities can be helpful after all! — Margaret Rogers

The author, Lyric’s dramaturgy intern last summer, is in her senior year at the University of Minnesota.

Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at The University of Chicago, has also taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford universities. Her latest book, Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations The casts ofCosì fan tutte About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles and (Lyric, 2006/07) Regret, appeared in 2017 and is co-authored and She's the Man with her colleague Saul Levmore. Her newest (Paramount, 2006). book, The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, will appear in July 2018 from Simon and Schuster. In 2016 she received the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

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Love in a Time of War DAN REST

For a moment, Ferrando (Eric Cutler, left) and Guglielmo (Nathan Gunn, right), get the better of Don Alfonso (Sir Thomas Allen, center): John Cox’s production ofCosì fan tutte at Lyric, 2006/07 season.

We are told next to nothing about the six of strength. This much they know about love restored when there has been such a betrayal characters who populate Così fan tutte. (Even from their education. of trust? It’s clear that both men love Fiordiligi the two sisters’ hometown being Ferrara is a Under pressure from the “Albanians” and that Dorabella is despised by the volatile, piece of opportunistic flattery by the librettist, and Despina, they discover that war can give male-chauvinist Guglielmo, whose friendship who at the time was the lover of the soprano to love a sudden urgency. Faced with the with Ferrando must be seriously damaged by nicknamed “La Ferrarese.”) Apart from likely mortality of their fiancés, they find mutually inflicted wounds. Any reconciliation Despina being a maid, the only useful fact is after all that the erotic fulfillment of love as founded on such demonstrable fault-lines that Ferrando and Guglielmo are soldiers. proffered by the Albanians is a surer route to would be short-lived. Alfonso’s experiment Yet the audience hardly sees them as real their happiness. They are invited into, perhaps may have won him his bet, but it only soldiers, men whose business is to go forth entitled to, that last-chance embrace. Their answered one question. It leaves a host of and kill or be killed, because this identity is lovers may never return, but the Albanians are others unaddressed. quickly suppressed. As part of Don Alfonso’s here now. By bringing the war in from the outside, fictive stratagem they become “Albanians,” As an alternative reading, suppose that by moving it from fiction to fact, by refusing performers in a masquerade that deceives their the war is not a part of the masquerade, to judge the sisters’ choices as immoral and by lovers, the aforementioned sisters. By this that events in the outside world that Alfonso rejecting Don Alfonso’s glib reconciliation, we means, the realities of war are forced out of the cannot control ironically convert his fiction can open up the spurious closure of the text story and our two killer heroes are transformed to fact, thus vindicating the sisters’ credulity and keep the search for truth in motion. to mere actors. and inflicting a well-deserved sting on their The sisters have learned much about love For the sisters, however, the war is an fraudulent men. in a time of war. So, unexpectedly, have the actuality and its possible outcomes must The conclusion of Così has always struck men, who must now become soldiers again. be faced. Their fiancés, one or both, might me, and many others, as smug (Don Alfonso) Don Alfonso’s 24-hour masquerade has been a be killed, maimed, or never return. Some and craven (everybody else) – in short, dress rehearsal for the real thing. interpretations of constancy would forbid unsatisfactory. None of the four lovers is the them to accept other offers of love should same person at the end as at the beginning. — John Cox the worst happen. Meanwhile, they owe it The truth, revealed by fiction, is that they are Reprinted by permission of San Francisco Opera. to their loved ones to be steadfast as a source all changeable. Can the original pairings be

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When the performance is over, try discussing it with your companions and any other opera lovers you know! You can continue your pleasure in Così fan tutte for hours – even days – by exchanging ideas about it. Here are some topics we can suggest:

Observed by their maid, Despina • What did you find most intriguing about this opera and Lyric’s

DAN REST (Gianna Rolandi, standing), production? Dorabella (Delores Ziegler, seated • The notion that women are fickle is what propels the story. Is this right) persuades her worried sister Fiordiligi (Carol Vaness, seated true, in your opinion? Why or why not? center) that she should yield to • Why do you think Despina chooses to help Don Alfonso and the temptation: Così fan tutte at men in tricking the sisters? Is this a betrayal of women? Lyric, 1993/94 season. • In Act One, the women remain true to their men. Why does this make the men work harder instead of accepting that their fiancées love them? • This opera is full of misunderstandings and confusion that cause chaos, on occasion amusingly so. What moments did you find the most entertaining and funny? Why? • In the end, everyone accepts that romantic relationships encompass good and bad times, and that there are lessons to be learned from them. What are the most valuable lessons in love that you’ve learned? • This opera is carefully balanced between arias, duets, trios, and full ensembles. Speaking just about the music, what moments thrilled you the most?

To continue enjoying Così fan tutte, Lyric dramaturg Roger Pines suggests the following performances:

CD – Renée Fleming, Anne Sofie von Otter, Adelina Scarabelli, DVD – Miah Persson, Anke Vondung, Ainhoa Garamendia, Topi Frank Lopardo, Olaf Bär, Michele Pertusi; London Voices, Chamber Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Nicolas Rivenq; Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of Europe, cond. Sir Georg Solti (Decca) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, cond. Iván Fischer, dir. Nicholas Hytner (Opus Arte) CD – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Hanny Steffek, Alfredo Kraus, Giuseppe Taddei, Walter Berry; Philharmonia Chorus and DVD – Amanda Roocroft, Rosa Mannion, Eirian James, Rainer Trost, Orchestra, cond. Karl Böhm (EMI Great Recordings of the Century) Rodney Gilfry, Claudio Nicolai; Monteverdi Chorus, English Baroque Soloists, cond. Sir John Eliot Gardiner, dir. Peter Mumford (DG) CD – Véronique Gens, Bernarda Fink, Graciela Oddone, Werner Güra, Marcel Boone, Pietro Spagnoli; Cologne Chamber Choir, DVD – Sally Matthews, Maite Beaumont, Danielle de Niese, Norman Concerto Köln, cond. René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi) Shankle, Luca Pisaroni, Garry Magee; Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, cond. Ingo Metzmacher, dir. CD – Lella Cuberli, Cecilia Bartoli, Joan Rodgers, Kurt Streit, Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito Ferruccio Furlanetto, John Tomlinson; RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic, cond. Daniel Barenboim (Warner Classics) DVD – Daniela Dessì, Delores Ziegler, Adelina Scarabelli, Josef Kundlak, Alessandro Corbelli, Claudio Desderi; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, cond. Riccardo Muti, dir. Michael Hampe (Opus Arte)

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Music Staff Violin II Bass Bassoon Timpani William C. Billingham Yin Shen, Principal Michael Geller, Principal Lewis Kirk, Acting Principal Edward Harrison, Principal John Macfarlane, Ian Hallas, Acting Assistant Principal Preman Tilson, Scott Ellaway Percussion Assistant Principal Andrew L. W. Anderson Acting Assistant Principal Susan Miller Hult Michael Green, Principal Bonita Di Bello Gregory Sarchet Hanna Sterba* Keun-A Lee Douglas Waddell, Diane Duraffourg-Robinson Timothy Shaffer* Noah Lindquist Contrabassoon Assistant Principal Teresa Kay Fream Collins R. Trier Mario Antonio Marra Hanna Sterba* Eric Millstein Peter Labella Francesco Milioto Flute Ann Palen Horn Stagehand Musician Jerad Mosbey Marie Tachouet, Principal Irene Radetzky Jonathan Boen, Principal Joel Cohen, percussion Steven Mosteller Dionne Jackson, John D. Robinson Fritz Foss, Assistant Principal/ Matthew Piatt Assistant Principal Extra Musician David Volfe Utility Horn Stefano Sarzani Alyce Johnson William C. Billingham, Albert Wang Robert E. Johnson, Third Horn Madeline Slettedahl harpsichord Piccolo Samuel Hamzem Robert Tweten Viola Alyce Johnson Neil Kimel Librarian Eric Weimer Carol Cook, Principal John Rosenkrans, Principal Orchestra Terri Van Valkinburgh, Oboe Trumpet Assistant Principal Judith Kulb, Principal William Denton, Principal Personnel Manager Violin I Frank W. Babbitt Robert E. Morgan Matthew Comerford, Stageband Contractor Robert Hanford, Patrick Brennan Assistant Principal Co-Assistant Principal Christine Janicki Concertmaster Karl Davies Judith Zunamon Lewis Channing Philbrick, *Season substitute The Mrs. R. Robert Amy Hess Co-Assistant Principal English Horn Funderburg Melissa Trier Kirk Robert E. Morgan Trombone Endowed Chair Di Shi Jeremy Moeller, Principal Sharon Polifrone, Clarinet Cello Mark Fisher, Assistant Principal Assistant Concertmaster Charlene Zimmerman, Calum Cook, Principal Graeme Mutchler Alexander Belavsky Principal Paul Dwyer, Assistant Principal Kathleen Brauer Linda A. Baker, Bass Trombone Mark Brandfonbrener Pauli Ewing Co-Assistant Principal Graeme Mutchler William H. Cernota Laura Ha Susan Warner, Laura Deming Tuba David Hildner Co-Assistant Principal Ellen Hildner Barbara Haffner Andrew Smith, Principal Walter Preucil Bass Clarinet Laura Miller Harp Linda A. Baker Liba Shacht Marguerite Lynn Williams, Heather Wittels Principal Bing Jing Yu

Chorus Master Tenor Core Supplementary Chorus Mezzo Michael Black Geoffrey Agpalo Soprano Robin Bradley Chorus Master Jason Balla Jill Dewsnup Sarah Ponder The Howard A. Stotler Timothy Bradley Carla Janzen Emily Price Endowed Chair Hoss Brock Suzanne M. Kszastowski Amanda Runge William M. Combs Kaileen Erin Miller Stephanie Schoenhofer Regular Chorus John J. Concepcion Ashley Sipka Kenneth Donovan Mezzo Soprano Tenor Joseph A. Fosselman Katie Ruth Bieber Elisa Billey Becker Humberto Borboa Beltran Lawrence Montgomery Amanda Tarver Jillian Bonczek Matthew Daniel Mark Nienow Sharon Garvey Cohen Tenor Klaus Georg James Odom Patricia A. Cook-Nicholson Jared V. Esguerra Cameo Humes Thomas L. Potter Cathleen Dunn Tyler Samuel Lee Luther Lewis Walton Westlake Janet Marie Farr Joe Shadday Brett J. Potts Desirée Hassler Bass Bass Bass Rachael Holzhausen Matthew Carroll Claude Cassion Michael Cavalieri Laureen Janeczek-Wysocki David DuBois Nicolai Janitzky Kirk Greiner Kimberly McCord Robert Morrissey Wilbur Pauley John E. Orduña Heidi Spoor Kenneth Nichols Douglas Peters Stephani Springer Steven Pierce Supplementary Chorus Martin Lowen Poock Elizabeth Anne Taylor Robert J. Prindle Soprano Vincent P. Wallace, Jr. Sherry Watkins Thomas Sillitti Joelle Lamarre Craig Springer Mezzo Katelyn Lee Jeffrey W. Taylor Claudia A. Kerski-Nienow Rosalind Lee Ronald Watkins Marianna Kulikova Susan Nelson Nikolas Wenzel Colleen Lovinello Christine Steyer Yvette Smith Kelsea Webb Marie Sokolova Boya Wei Maia Surace Laurie Seely Vassalli Corinne Wallace-Crane Pamela Williams Michelle K. Wrighte

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BACKSTAGE LIFE: Madeleine Borg

What is your role here at Lyric, to figure out how I can best fulfill and how long have you held the the needs of the company. It’s a position? challenge because that means there I’m the production manager for is an extra step (or a few!) with every Lyric Unlimited (Lyric’s department new process, but it’s rewarding. devoted to education and community engagement) and the What keeps you committed to the Ryan Opera Center, and I’ve had work you do? this position for one year. I am the The artistic outcome of the different liaison between those departments productions, specifically working and our technical department, and on engagement and education I help coordinate the logistics of the programming with Lyric Unlimited design elements for their different and the Ryan Opera Center, is productions. I help facilitate really fulfilling. It’s great to know backstage elements like lighting, we’re passing on all of these artistic sound, scenic, and costumes, and I endeavors to another generation, work with the director and creative and showing them how impactful teams to make sure we are executing the arts can be. Whether it’s the design concept they have in through new commissions that shine mind. Whether it’s a garage moving a light on stories people haven’t on and off stage, specialty scenic heard before, or taking operatic floors, or an added disco ball, I work with the rest of the team to figure productions to schools for kids who might have never been exposed to out how their artistic decisions can be made into a reality within the the art form, it’s all extremely relevant. Arts funding is often the first to proposed budget and on schedule. get cut in schools, so having that available for students to explore is so important for youth development. What led you to work at Lyric? After graduating from school with a degree in stage management, What’s something about your job that people might not know? I quickly became fascinated with production management. In the When a show is in technical rehearsals, my role essentially is just doing performing arts, there tend to be many projects where a great idea is what needs to be done in the moment to keep the ball rolling and there, but the organization needed to see it through is not present. I allow other people to execute their jobs. Sometimes this means literally love being one of the people who facilitate those amazing concepts hopping in a 53-foot-long truck with a truck driver to personally escort and bring them to fruition. When I saw the opening for a production them through the depths of “lower-lower” downtown Chicago to get manager at Lyric, I knew I had to apply. It was truly a dream of mine them to a difficult-to-find loading dock. to work here with the dedicated technical team and under the roof of this gorgeous building. Favorite Lyric moment? After working for countless hours with the rest of my team on the What’s a typical day like for you? Chicago Voices concert, being able to sit in the house for the show That really depends on the production schedule for the day. Sometimes was an incredible moment. The atmosphere and energy were so I’m planning the upcoming season schedule for designers, production intoxicating. In production, we don’t always get the opportunity to sit teams, and simultaneously monitoring that we stay within the budget. in the house and experience firsthand what we’ve helped create. Being I also spend time researching local designers – we look to hire and immersed in the palpable excitement with our patrons was definitely support local talent for Lyric Unlimited productions – and seeing my favorite moment so far. who’s creating some really amazing work. I might also be fielding emails and questions, attending meetings with designers and directors Beyond opera, what are your other passions? for upcoming shows, or at an off-site venue making sure a load-in or Watching the Dallas Cowboys. I grew up in Dallas, and I really enjoy technical rehearsals are going smoothly. watching sports. My mom taught me everything I know about football through our “Monday Night Football tutoring” sessions we had when What’s the most challenging aspect of your job? I was in the sixth grade. I’ve been in love with the sport (and the team) It’s a brand new position so there’s no specific template for my role, ever since. It gives me a piece of home here in Chicago. and no one preceding me to show me the ropes of exactly what the job entails. But that’s allowed me to collaborate with my colleagues — Kamaria Morris

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Artistic Roster

Sopranos Graham Maverick Ming Cho Lee Assistant Choreographer Maria Agresta Alessandro Corbelli Jeraldine Mendoza John Neumeier Michael Mizerany Kate Baldwin Anthony Clark Evans Jacqueline Moscicke Robert Perdziola Janai Brugger Nathan Gunn Aaron Renteria Zandra Rhodes Ballet Mistress Andriana Chuchman Joshua Hopkins Christine Rocas Vita Tzykun August Tye Rosa Feola Quinn Kelsey Paulo Rodrigues Michael Yeargan Christine Goerke Mariusz Kwiecień Chloé Sherman Wigmaster and Makeup Eglise Gutiérrez Zachary Nelson Temur Suluashvili Associate Set Designer Designer Pureum Jo Emmett O’Hanlon Olivia Tang-Mifsud Heinrich Tröger Sarah Hatten Alexandra LoBianco Takaoki Onishi Alonso Tepetzi Ana María Martínez Edward Parks Elivelton Tomazi Assistant Set Designer Fight Choreographers Whitney Morrison Hugh Russell Alberto Velazquez Matt Rees Chuck Coyl Diana Newman Todd Thomas Joanna Wozniak Katherine Coyl Ailyn Pérez Joan Sebastián Zamora Lighting Designers Nick Sandys Marina Rebeka Bass-baritones Fabrice Kebour Albina Shagimuratova Alan Higgs Chris Maravich Translators for Lauren Snouffer Philip Horst Jacob Ashley John Neumeier Projected English Titles Marcy Stonikas Eric Owens Nikolas Chen Duane Schuler Carol Borah Kelly Elisabet Strid Ron Vodicka Christian Van Horn Sam Crouch Roger Pines Ann Toomey Marian Faustino Francis Rizzo Elena Tsallagova Projection Designer Basses Tom Mattingly Colin Ure Amber Wagner David Adam Moore Ain Anger Ginny Ngo Laura Wilde Scott Conner Jimi Loc Nguyen The American Chorus Master Michelle Reid Guild of Mezzo-sopranos Patrick Guetti Michael Black Todd Rhoades Musical Artists, Lindsay Ammann Adrian Sâmpetrean Jacqueline Stewart AFL-CIO Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Andrea Silvestrelli Children's Chorus Master Nicholas Strasburg (AGMA), Marianne Crebassa Alexander Tsymbalyuk Josephine Lee is the union Susan Graham Jessica Wolfrum Jill Grove Dancers Choreographers and that represents the singers, Conductors dancers, actors, and staging Catherine Martin The Joffrey Ballet Movement Directors Marco Armiliato personnel at Lyric Opera of Lindsay Metzger Matthew Adamczyk John Malashock Julie Miller Harry Bicket John Neumeier Chicago. Derrick Agnoletti David Chase Deborah Nansteel Yoshihisa Arai Denni Sayers Annie Rosen Sir Andrew Davis August Tye Amanda Assucena James Gaffigan Zanda Švēde Edson Barbosa Zack Winokur Kristy Swann Enrique Mazzola Miguel Angel Blanco Robert Tweten TONY ROMANO Anais Bueno Emmanuel Villaume Contralto Fabrice Calmels Lauren Decker Raúl Casasola Directors Valeriia Chaykina Tenors John Cox Nicole Ciapponi Thor Abjornsson Eric Einhorn Lucia Connolly Piotr Beczała Rob Kearley April Daly Benjamin Bernheim E. Loren Meeker Fernando Duarte Zach Borichevsky John Neumeier Olivia Duryea Lawrence Brownlee Kevin Newbury Alec Carlson Cara Marie Gary David Pountney Dominick Chenes Stefan Goncalvez Bruno Ravella Rafael Davila Luis Eduardo Gonzalez Andrew Sinclair Keith Jameson Dylan Gutierrez Jonathan Johnson Rory Hohenstein Associate Director Brandon Jovanovich Dara Holmes Rob Kearley Dmitry Korchak Riley Horton Stefano La Colla Yuka Iwai Set and Costume Designers Josh Lovell Victoria Jaiani Johan Engels Matthew Polenzani Hansol Jeong John Frame Mario Rojas Gayeon Jung Peter J. Hall Constance Hoffman Rodell Rosel Yumi Kanazawa Dorabella (Anne Howells) falls for the disguised Robert Innes Hopkins Issachah Savage Brooke Linford Guglielmo (Alan Titus): Così fan tutte at Lyric, Andrew Stenson Greig Matthew Allen Charles Klein Marie-Jeanne Lecca 1987/88 season.

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PATRON SALUTE | LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure: Amplifying Lyric

Sidney N. Shure founded Shure Unlike operas, all singing and dialogue Radio Company in 1925, with offices are amplified in these productions, located at 19 South Wells Street, just and this was something Lyric was just two blocks from the future site of the beginning to learn how to do effectively Civic Opera Building. During the Great in a theater designed for unamplified Depression, when factory-built radio sound. That year, Shure Incorporated sets became more affordable than the provided another generous in-kind radio kits supplied by his Company, Mr. donation of microphones and other Shure pivoted his Company’s efforts to amplification equipment, including developing its own microphones. At the wireless microphone bodypacks that fit start of World War II, having had great unobtrusively in singers' wardrobes. That success in microphones, Shure landed equipment was used by Lyric as it made a contract with the military, producing its successful transition into its Musical microphones used to communicate Theater Initiative, with such productions between tanks, through pilot oxygen as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound masks, and over battleship intercoms. of Music, The King and ,I and Lerner and Each product was designed to meet the Loewe’s My Fair Lady last spring. strict military standards required for In addition to equipment battlefield conditions, a level of durability donations, Mr. and Mrs. Shure gave still maintained by the Company today. generously throughout their lifetimes, In 1949, a bright young woman and Shure Incorporated continues its named Rose Langer landed in Mr. Shure’s legacy of financial support. Never taking office as his executive assistant. Hard for granted their position in life, Mr. working and ferociously intelligent, Rose and Mrs. Shure delighted in giving back quickly proved to be a worthy partner, to organizations that brought them both in business and in life. Sidney joy. Upon her death in 2016, Rose left and Rose were married in 1954, and such with a reputation for exceptional quality, bequests to several charitable organizations, was their joint leadership that the Board of backed by excellent customer service. The including Lyric. In addition, Lyric is grateful Directors elected Rose to succeed her husband Company’s industry standard microphone, to receive continued support from the Shure as Chairman of Shure Incorporated after his the SM58®, will undoubtedly be found in Charitable Trust created under the Will of death in 1995. She held that role until her the hands of Adam Levine on Maroon 5’s Sidney N. Shure, which is also making grants passing in January 2016. next tour. Pop stars of the 50s and 60s were to numerous charitable organizations. “My aunt didn’t have any children of her regularly photographed crooning into the “She truly loved Lyric; it was one of her own,” says Barbara Levie, Rose Shure’s niece. iconic Model 55 Unidyne®. Those who tune in most revered charities,” Barbara says. “They “Her business was like her family, and she to Presidential addresses have heard the Shure had four or more seats for every opera, and felt close to everyone she worked with.” Aside SM57, the microphone used on the White even after my uncle died, my aunt would invite from being extremely clever and business- House lectern since Lyndon B. Johnson held three people to go with her and take them minded, Barbara describes Rose as “almost the top office. Wherever sound is produced, to dinner in the Graham Room before the regal. She had a style about her and a certain Shure is there. opera. It was her highlight.” To honor Rose presence that was very unusual.” The presence of Shure products at the and Sidney, the Trustees of the Charitable Barbara’s father would often bring her opera house might seem counterintuitive Trust named their four subscription seats on and her brother to Rose’s apartment for a because Lyric's mainstage opera singers the main floor of the Ardis Krainik Theater day-long adventure. “She would take us on rarely use amplification. But there are always with plaques on each one reading, "In Loving the El downtown, and we’d get on the first exceptions. In 2003, Shure Incorporated and Memory of Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure.” car so we could watch the train go into the Mrs. Shure generously donated significant Mr. Shure is remembered at Shure subway. We would go out to lunch, then to equipment to Lyric. Speaking voices during Incorporated as saying of the Company, “We Fannie May Candy, and finally to an opera or operettas and children's singing voices are know very well that absolute perfection cannot a play. Afterward, we’d always go to Kroch’s usually not strong enough to be heard be attained, but we will never stop striving for and Brentano’s, and we were each allowed to unaided throughout the opera house. Lyric it.” Lyric is grateful that some of that near- buy a book. It was a very enriching experience, has, for many years, counted on Shure’s perfection made its way to Lyric, both onstage and that’s how I grew to appreciate the arts.” leading technology to smoothly transition and off. As for the Company they built together, from unamplified singing to spoken dialogue, Shure Incorporated is one of the world’s and back again. — Meaghan Stainback leading manufacturers of audio equipment, In 2012, Lyric began regularly presenting great works from the musical theater canon.

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BALDWIN Celebrating 100 Years of BERNSTEIN

Featuring Kate Baldwin, Susan Graham, GRAHAM Nathan Gunn, and the Lyric Opera Orchestra conducted by David Chase

Join us for a performance of Trouble in Tahiti and beloved Bernstein favorites.

Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein concert is generously made possible by Lead Sponsor Liz Sti‚ el and cosponsors James N. and Laurie V. Bay. GUNN

MAR † ‡ ˆ ‡ ˆ‰ ‡ ˆŠ CHICAGO PREMIERE

Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., Chicago Performed in English with projected English texts

This emotional chamber opera takes place during the McCarthy era in 1950s Washington, D.C., where Tim Laughlin struggles to reconcile his political convictions with a forbidden love a‚ air.

An opera by Gregory Spears Libretto by Greg Pierce Directed by Kevin Newbury Based on the novel “Fellow Travelers” by Thomas Mallon

Lyric Unlimited presentation of Fellow Travelers generously made possible by Lead Sponsor The Wallace Foundation, with additional support from the Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund. Lyric Unlimited was launched with major catalyst funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and receives major support from the Caerus Foundation, Inc.

LYRICOPERA.ORG  . . Experience Lyric’s Enhanced Dining Features! Nothing makes an evening more special than adding an enjoyable dinner to a beautiful performance — and we’re excited to share a host of enhancements this season designed to make the convenience of dining at Lyric both elegant and delicious, from start to fi nish.

Our newly-renovated Sarah and Peer Pedersen Room o ers stylish dining and stays open one Friday night means sushi! Chef hour after the show for post-show Tom Osaki delivers delicious, fresh cocktails. sushi on Friday nights and for all Die Walküre performances.

The Pedersen Room and the Florian Opera Bistro feature new Don’t forget to pre-order your wine lists by Master Sommelier drinks before the show and pick Alpana Singh. up at intermission — and choose a Lyric cup to enjoy your beverage at your seat during the show! We’re thrilled to have Chicago’s top chefs and restaurateurs Featured Chef create featured entrées for the Lyric’s most generous donors can Pedersen Room. enjoy the sophistication of The William B. and Catherine Graham Room, featuring superb farm-to- Visit our new champagne bar table menus by Calihan Catering Cheers! located on the Main Floor and additional exclusive benefi ts. and enjoy featured champagnes and cocktails.

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ABBOTT FUND JAMES N. and LAURIE V. BAY Abbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors Jim and Laurie Bay are passionate supporters of the to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of arts in Chicago and have been members of the Lyric dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has Opera family for more than three decades. Generous generously cosponsored 23 Lyric productions, including this donors to Lyric Opera, they have supported Lyric's season’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Lyric’s first past Wine Auctions, Annual Campaigns, and education collaboration with The Joffrey Ballet. Abbott has championed programs. They made a leadership gift to the Breaking Miles D. White Lyric’s achievements by making a leadership commitment to the New Ground Campaign and were sponsors of Lyric's 60th Anniversary Gala and Breaking New Ground Campaign. “The Lyric is one of the treasures that make Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park in 2013. Jim and Laurie have generously Chicago the world-class city that it is. We’re proud to be associated with it.” says cosponsored Lyric productions of Madama Butterfly in 2014, last season's Carmen, Miles D. White, Abbott’s Chairman and Chief are lead individual sponsors of Ladies' Choice, and are cosponsors of the Celebrating Executive Officer and a valued member of Lyric’s 100 Years of Bernstein concert. Lyric is honored to have Jim Bay, a principal of Bays Board of Directors. Corporation, serve on its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee.

ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTON MARLYS A. BEIDER Ada and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric As an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has subscribers and donors. They have contributed generously contributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Benefactor of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support gift commitment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season’s Die Makeup Designer Endowed Chair in memory of her late Walküre. The Addingtons have also invested in the husband, Harold Beider. Marlys Beider cosponsored several company’s future through their planned gift to Lyric. productions including Elektra (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14) Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Addington as a member of its Board of and Tosca (2014/15), and has committed generous leadership gifts to cosponsor Directors and Executive Committee. Lyric’s new productions of last season’s Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung (2019/20), part of Lyric’s new Ring cycle. AMERICAN AIRLINES This season we celebrate 36 years of vital corporate partnership RANDY L. and MELVIN R. BERLIN with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera. Devoted fans of opera education and the arts, Melvin In recognition of the company’s significant contribution to and Randy Berlin are vital members of the Lyric Opera the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city level of the Lyric Opera House is named the American Airlines and the community, and we like to be part of that,” says Mezzanine. American Airlines provides important in-kind Melvin. The Berlins have contributed significantly to Franco Tedeschi support for Lyric’s programs and the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to the special events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President of Breaking New Ground Campaign. Melvin and Randy American Airlines, proudly serves on Lyric’s Board have cosponsored several productions including last season’s The Magic Flute and of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. this season’s Così fan tutte. Lyric is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors. PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATION The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the BMO HARRIS BANK performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The BMO Harris Bank is a proud supporter of Lyric Opera. BMO, Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated which is celebrating its bicentennial this year, has demonstrated the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John its strong commitment to supporting the communities it serves Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, for the past 200 years. BMO has generously supported special self reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his projects through Lyric’s Annual Campaign, most recently as the ideals. At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter Exclusive Sponsor of both the Plácido Domingo and Ana María Alexandra of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming and has generously Dousmanis-Curtis Martínez Concert (2015/16) and the Celebrating Plácido Concert committed to a high level of multi-year support. (2016/17). Lyric is honored to have Alexandra Dousmanis-Curtis, Group Head, U.S. Retail and Business Banking, BMO Harris Bank, serve on its ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS Board of Directors and Investment Committee. “Opera is truly an inspiration. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from six It affects how we see and interpret the world anonymous contributors during the 2017/18 season. around us, and it’s our hope that the support we provide Lyric will help increase exposure to such a JULIE and ROGER BASKES beautiful form of artistic expression.” Lyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP three decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is the world’s leading Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of advisor on business strategy. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the their support and dedication this season in offering their pro bono Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They services to help Lyric to better understand our financial model, have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, last season’s and to identify creative and promising paths to growth. Lyric Norma and this season’s Rigoletto. They also made a leadership commitment to Opera is honored to have Dan Dan Grossman the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Grossman, Partner & Managing Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive Director, on the Lyric Board Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and of Directors and Finance Committee. is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDER MARION A. CAMERON Dedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Lyric is sincerely honored to have the support and leadership Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric of Marion A. Cameron. A subscriber and donor for more Opera family. Committed to sustaining the exceptional than 20 years, Lyric gratefully acknowledges her outstanding quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders generosity through her leadership gift to the Breaking New made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Ground Campaign, and her many production cosponsorships, Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder including this season’s Così fan tutte. Ms. Cameron is the CEO of Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also been longtime generous donors Sipi Metals Corp., which continues to support the widely popular to the Annual Campaign, and are cosponsors of this season’s new production of Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert. Marion Cameron is a member of Faust. “I really do believe that Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Finance Committees, and Chair of the Gilda’s heartfelt assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so well, Investment Committee. and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Production Sponsorship Committee. CENTENE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION Charitable outreach is an important part of Centene Corporation's business CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUM philosophy. Since 2004, Centene Charitable Foundation has contributed a Lyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and substantial amount to initiatives that improve the quality of life and health in our generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime communities. Through our donations to organizations in the arts, we are not only patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum sustaining the ongoing cultural traditions, but also paving the way for future Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s generations to experience the arts. This season, Centene Charitable Foundation is regional and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. providing leadership support for EmpowerYouth! Igniting Creativity through the Kay’s incredible continued matching support makes possible The Arts, a groundbreaking multi-disciplinary afterschool program offered in Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which draw 16 million listeners annually. partnership between Lyric Unlimited and the Chicago Urban League that will “Lyric is a great national institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family culminate in the presentation of a fully great pleasure to know these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so staged, youth-centric opera based on many in Chicago and around the globe.” participants’ real-life experiences.

THE JOHN and JACOLYN BUCKSBAUM ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATION FOUNDATION Lyric Opera remains deeply grateful for the long-term generosity Passionate philanthropists in the Chicago community, of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s John and Jackie Bucksbaum are major supporters of nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney Foundation has the arts. John Bucksbaum is founder and CEO of made an enhanced multi-year commitment to the Ryan Opera Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC, a fully-integrated Center/Lyric Opera. During the 2017/18 season, the Cheney owner and developer of retail real estate. John and Foundation is supporting Guest Master Teacher and Artist John and Jackie Bucksbaum Jackie, with their family, generously provide matching Elizabeth F. Cheney residencies; the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; access funding for The Lyric Opera Broadcasts, which air on to a behind-the-scenes view of the Ensemble selection process 98.7WFMT live during each opening night performance. by opening the Ryan Opera Center’s Final Auditions to a greater number of Lyric donors and subscribers for the fifth year; and singer sponsorship of tenor Mario BULLEY & ANDREWS Rojas. Lyric Opera is honored to have foundation director Allan Drebin serve on its Founded 1891, Bulley & Andrews is one of the Midwest’s most Board of Directors, and the Ryan Opera Center Board. trusted and accomplished construction companies. The fourth generation, family-owned firm offers clients a full-range of MRS. JOHN V. CROWE construction services including general contracting, construction Peggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous and management, design/build, and masonry and concrete restoration. passionate members of the Lyric family, evidenced Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, supported Lyric by their major support of the Breaking New Ground Allan E. Bulley, III Unlimited’s Performances for Students programs, and is a cosponsor Campaign and the Renee Fleming Initiative. Jack and of Lyric’s Ring cycle, including last Peggy Crowe's significant contribution to Lyric was season’s Das Rheingold and this season’s Die Walküre. Lyric recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Opera is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, III as a member Foyer on the fifth floor in memory of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate of its Board of Directors. to have Jack Crowe serve as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric's Board of Directors. THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION Longtime subscribers from Dubuque, Iowa, John and THE CROWN FAMILY Alice Butler recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Two of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage improvement Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera. project. John says, “When Alice and I heard that Lyric The Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming was unable to share productions with other houses due Initiative and made generous gifts to Lyric’s Annual to our outdated and unreliable stage technology, we Campaign and Breaking New Ground Campaign. Mrs. John and Alice Butler understood that to be a serious problem that needed to Crown is a past President of the Women’s Board. Mr. be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the best Lester and Renée Crown Crown joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and opera company in North America, and in order to be the best, we must have access has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée the best productions.” Lyric Opera is honored to have John Butler serve on its Board and Lester Crown were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of Directors and Investment Committee. of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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THE DAVEE FOUNDATION JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATION Lyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth A founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera) and a Lyric Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The Opera Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities reflects the Davees’ wide- Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric Opera is great place to live and enjoy life. The Julius Frankel Foundation fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Foundation’s has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas come. The Davee Foundation provided critical preliminary support to enhance Julius Frankel and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have amplification and sound systems used in the Musical Theater Initiative, and has benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general generously cosponsored each production in the initiative, including this season’s operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. Frankel was particularly Jesus Christ Superstar. interested in making Chicago one of the greatest places in the world to live and enjoy life,” Nelson Cornelius once said. “The foundation’s giving supports things MARIANNE DESON-HERSTEIN that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric Opera does.” Lyric Marianne Deson-Herstein was a long-time supporter and lover of has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of Lyric Opera until her death in 2015. Her Trust left a substantial the Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. bequest to the Lyric Opera Production Endowment Fund for designers and scenery expenses, in memory of her parents, ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUST Samuel and Sarah Deson. To fulfill her intentions, Marianne’s One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse bequest is being used to cosponsor Lyric’s production of Wagner’s Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer Die Walküre this opera season. Her gift will help support the Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, designer and scenery expenses for this new Lyric Opera production. Lyric is greatly and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. appreciative of Marianne’s thoughtfulness in making this very generous planned gift Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees to endow these essential mainstage opera production expenses. Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich Elizabeth Morse Genius the quality of life in Chicago, especially for youth and elderly STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESON citizens. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Passionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive Opera House chimes and Neeson are actively involved with organizations in music library in honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along with its sister trust, The Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has sponsored many mainstage Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera productions and was most recently one of the cosponsors of last season’s company for more than 30 years. They have previously cosponsored premiere of Les Troyens. In addition to production sponsorship, the Trust has helped five mainstage operas, including last season’sLucia di underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards and preserve Lyric’s Lammermoor and this season’s Faust. Stefan and Gael also made a leadership gift to history through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric named one of its the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse Genius Conference its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee. Room in order to show its grateful appreciation for the Trust’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well EXELON as to recognize the Trust’s commitment over The philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain many years to helping build the company’s core Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has capacities and institutional infrastructure. generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILL programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included The Mikado (2010/12), Brent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes the Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky Subscriber Appreciation Concert in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to (2011/12), La bohème (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s second mariachi opera, Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and The Marriage of Figaro (2015/16). Last Brent and Katie were a Diamond Record Sponsor of the season, Exelon cosponsored Lyric’s production of Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert. Brent Gledhill is Carmen. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Exelon as the Global Head of Investment Banking at William Blair an outstanding corporate partner. & Company, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have Brent serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Audit ELAINE FRANK Committee. A member of the Lyric family since its calling card performance of Don Giovanni in 1954, Elaine Frank generously supported WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFEN Lyric’s education programs by underwriting the NEXT Student William and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric Discount tickets since 2014. Elaine and her family named Opera productions for more than 50 years. They are the Elaine and Zollie Frank Rehearsal Room as part of their generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are major contribution toward the Building on Greatness capital cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of Faust this season. campaign. Most recently, Elaine gave generously to the Breaking New Ground They have also made a leadership gift to the Breaking Campaign’s stage renovation project to ensure Lyric’s technology is competitive New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel with its sister institutions. “Opera has been a part of my life since I was a young Gofen as a member of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. girl and still is as I am turning 100. I am grateful for all the wonderful memories my involvement at Lyric has afforded me.” Lyric is grateful for the decades-long HOWARD GOTTLIEB and BARBARA GREIS friendship of Elaine, her family, and her late husband and former Board of Directors Among Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, member, Zollie Frank. Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have cosponsored many productions, including this season’s production of Rigoletto. Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment Corporation and an accomplished violinist. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

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GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATION WALTER E. HELLER FOUNDATION With an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 27 new Lyric productions Alyce H. DeCosta was a dedicated philanthropist who loved since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a Chicago and helped nurture cultural life in the city through cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma her generous support for the arts and higher education. Mrs. Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the DeCosta was a leading member of the Lyric family, having served four operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, which began with Das Rheingold last as a National Director of Lyric’s Board. For many years, she was season and will continue with Die Walküre this season. Lyric is sincerely grateful president of the Walter E. Heller Foundation, a philanthropic for the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter and other members Alyce H. DeCosta foundation named after her late husband, the founder and of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher serve on its Board past Chairman of Walter E. Heller Co. The Walter E. Heller of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the Women’s Board. Foundation has generously funded many Lyric productions, most recently Lyric’s world premiere of Bel Canto (2015/16) and Don Quichotte (2016/17). KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR. J. THOMAS HURVIS Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of Tom Hurvis is an avid opera fan and longtime Lyric subscriber. Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom and his member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in several committees, most recently as the 2016 Board support of Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she and community engagement activities. Tom Hurvis sponsors the contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support Renée Fleming Initiative, and made a generous leadership gift in of stage renovations. The Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative during the 2016/17 success of the company. Last season, Karen and John joined the production sponsor season. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of family with their generous support of Carmen and this season made a leadership gift contributions to the Annual Campaign, including several production sponsorships, to Wine Auction 2018. as well as their support of The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Most recently, Tom has given a generous gift to the Ryan Opera Center, endowing a singer in perpetuity MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSS in memory of dear friend Dick Kiphart. “Opera enriches lives. That is why it is Lyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and so important to introduce young people to opera, and for them to experience tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. productions done by the best in their fields. How fortunate we are to have all this Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 23 right here in Chicago.” Lyric is honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s of Directors, Executive Committee, Innovation Committee, and Lyric Unlimited Das Rheingold and this season’s Die Walküre. Through Committee. yearly challenge grants, they also help generate important momentum for Operathon, Lyric’s annual fundraising broadcast heard live on ITW 98.7WFMT. Lyric is honored to name Mezzanine Box 20 in grateful recognition for Lyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company has esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by New Ground Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored the granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor. Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has cosponsored many productions, including this season’s new Scott Santi JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND production of Faust. Lyric is proud to have Chairman and CEO John R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric Scott Santi on its Board of Directors and for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his Executive Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, W. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David Speer. Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan EDGAR D. JANNOTTA Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic Lyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding of support from John R. Halligan organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense Ned Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A lifelong opera of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our lover, Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, appreciation of nature. The fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the joining the Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. CEO of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving Halligan resided during his lifetime. as Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received a leadership gift from the Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign to THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION create the Ryan Opera Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in addition to their The Harris Family Foundation, represented generous gifts to the Annual Campaign. by Pam and Joe Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is a valued member of Lyric’s JENNER & BLOCK production sponsorship family, most recently Founded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with global cosponsoring last season’s Carmen and this impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. season’s Faust. The Harris Family Foundation The firm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris also supports the Annual Campaign, and business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of the Foundation bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and serving on its Production Craig C. Martin the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign, Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the revered Women’s Board and has of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board held many leadership positions, most recently as Co-Chair of Opening Night/Opera of Directors, Nominating/ Ball in 2015. Governance, and Executive Committees.

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JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. NANCY W. KNOWLES Lyric gratefully acknowledges the vital corporate leadership and support of Opera always played an important role in the life of the late Nancy JPMorgan Chase. Along with the bank’s predecessors The First National Bank of W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s Chicago and Bank One, JPMorgan Chase has generously contributed to the Annual musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of Campaign, Lyric Unlimited, and Wine Auction. The bank has also cosponsored records to play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always many mainstage productions, including this season’s in my home.” Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Lyric’s first and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board collaboration with The Joffrey Ballet. of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. In recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the THE ANNE and BURT KAPLAN FUND Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in The Kaplan Fund is a longstanding supporter of numerous arts organizations support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. Knowles throughout Chicago, fostering a vibrant visual and performing arts environment. They Student and Family Performances fund. Ms. Knowles generously underwrote the are joining the Lyric production sponsorship family this season with their generous appearance of Lyric’s world premiere Bel Canto on PBS Great Performances on January sponsorship of Orphée et Eurydice, Lyric’s historic collaboration with The Joffrey Ballet. 13, 2017, and had previously cosponsored several mainstage operas. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest PATRICIA A. KENNEY and GREGORY J. O'LEARY honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity. Pat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, with a particular passion NANCY and SANFRED KOLTUN for supporting the emerging artists of The Patrick Close members of the Lyric family as longtime subscribers G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. They have and generous supporters, Nancy and Sanfred were generously cosponsored the season-culminating Rising Ryan Opera Center Singer Cosponsors for many years Stars in Concert for six consecutive years, and Greg and cosponsored the Lyric Unlimited family opera The was recently elected to the Ryan Opera Center Board Magic Victrola. This season, they join the production and serves on its Fundraising Committee. Pat and Greg join the Aria Society this year sponsorship family with their generous support of Così fan with their generous Mainstage Singer Sponsorship of celebrated Ryan Opera Center tutte. "In the fall of 1954, I attended Carmen, staged by the precursor of the Lyric. That alumnus Matthew Polenzani in his appearances in this season's production of The Pearl night I fell in love with Carmen, opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Fishers. Lyric is grateful for their longstanding friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric Nancy and I have loved Lyric Opera and have always supported one of the most Opera and the Ryan Opera Center with their mission of providing world class opera cherished cultural institutions of Chicago. It is our hope that our children, grandchildren and training for singers, respectively. Every time we think they hit the high plateau, they and those beyond will be able to attend the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their ascend to another." midst."

THE RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART FAMILY MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIEL Susie Kiphart is an esteemed member of the Lyric Opera Kay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated family. She is immediate past President of the Ryan Opera members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully Center Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating acknowledges their generous contributions to Wine Committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Auction, the Annual Campaign, and the Breaking New Along with her beloved late husband Dick Kiphart, Susie Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and is a passionate philanthropist. They have made leadership cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They also continue to provide major support for Lyric’s radio programming as members of the broadcast JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOK consortium, sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, and are generous Devoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be grateful for the visionary Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. leadership of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President and CEO as well as They have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/Governance made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance and Production Sponsorship Campaign. They have also cosponsored several mainstage Committees. The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to Lyric productions, including last year’s Eugene Onegin and are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of their passion and immense this season’s Orphée et Eurydice. The CEO of LSV Asset dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013. Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees. KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful restructuring, and counseling matters. The firm is committed to world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, cultural on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. Kirkland & global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for Linda K. Myers Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas, most recently The Merry the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation Widow (2015/16), and was Lead Corporate Sponsor of the Chicago supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture grantmaking. The Voices Gala Benefit last season. Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner Foundation’s support helps create powerful performances and exhibitions, educate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member young people, and engage communities, while providing of its Board of Directors, Executive and arts and culture organizations the flexibility to innovate Production Sponsorship Committees. and experiment. Lyric Opera is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation.

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MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISON Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Susan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of Corporation, is a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric is the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, and and patrons who take an active role in nurturing generous supporter. The Malott Room was named in his family’s Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Capital Campaign, and in recognition of the Malott Family’s Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Robert H. Malott commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Box 18 is The Morrisons have generously supported the Opera named in perpetuity in honor of Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign steadfast dedication to Lyric Opera. He also plays a leadership role as a Life Director for many years. They provided a substantial gift to the of Lyric’s Board of Directors. Breaking New Ground Campaign, and have previously cosponsored Lyric’s Initiative, including My Fair Lady last season. This season the Morrisons MAZZA FOUNDATION are generously sponsoring Lyric’s production of Turandot. “Lyric reaches patrons at Lyric deeply appreciates the abiding every level. People are here because they love it. They’re welcomed, embraced, and friendship and generosity of the Mazza made to feel part of a family.” Foundation. Under the guidance of its directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUST J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Lyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable Mazza Foundation provided major leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas support for the Student Matinees for and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in memory J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind many years, helping Lyric introduce of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist the majesty and grandeur of opera to Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust thousands of young people each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been Elizabeth Morse Genius supports non-profit organizations that reflect the values of thrift, part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self-sacrifice, such as Lyric Opera. The Carmen and this season’s new production of Die Walküre. Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust most recently cosponsored last season’s company premiere of Les Troyens as well as many past productions, along with its sister trust, LAUTER McDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUND the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust. To show its grateful appreciation for Nancy and her late husband Alfred have provided The Trust’s generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to vital support to the Annual Campaign as well as recognize The Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen years to helping build the The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric named one of its In addition, Nancy generously sponsored Lawrence key meeting rooms in its executive offices the Elizabeth Morse Conference Room. Brownlee and Eric Owens in Recital, Lyric Unlimited’s Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD, and Rising Stars in

Fred and Nancy McDougal Concert last season. This season, Nancy continues this support as a cosponsor of Piotr Beczała in Recital, Lyric ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHIN Unlimited’s Fellow Travelers, EmpowerYouth!, Rising Stars in Concert, and the Ryan Allan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members Opera Center fundraising event Ladies’ Choice. of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President and CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Lyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons The Muchins have staunchly supported the Annual initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American Campaign, Operathon, and the Stars of Lyric Opera operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for Lyric at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts to the Building Opera premieres. During the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s munificent friendship. first Mariachi opera. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled Our support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants awarded by legacy by cosponsoring last season’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role in the Canto. Most recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous leadership advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire, funding for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, specifically focused on the Community serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. Created Performances component, which plays a vital role Through production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, in bringing together Chicago’s diverse communities and awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. vocal traditions in celebration of the human voice. The Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK) NEA has provided vital support for numerous Lyric Opera premieres, new Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of productions, and revivals, most recently last season’s Les Troyens and this season’s trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of I Puritani. Rusalka in 2013/14 and cosponsored Anna Bolena (2014/15), Wozzeck (2015/16), and The Magic Flute (2016/17). The Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Lyric’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice this season.

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THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLS The founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the Longtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of The Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric Opera is extremely last season’s productions of The Magic Fluteand My Fair Lady. This season The grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ significant Negaunee Foundation is of the lead sponsor of both Così fan tutte and Jesus Christ leadership contributions to both the Campaign for Superstar. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool institutions benefitting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee. involvement with the opera company is truly a deeply rewarding experience for both of us.” Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity of John and SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHEL Alexandra Nichols. Sylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers and donors for many years, and have cosponsored several NORTHERN TRUST mainstage opera productions, including last season’s Lyric is honored to have Jana R. Schreuder, chief operating officer Lucia di Lammermoor and this year’s The Pearl Fishers. of Northern Trust, serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, They made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Executive and Finance Committees, and William A. Osborn, Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as a member enjoyable to become part of the Lyric family and to give of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A leading back to a place that has given us so much pleasure. There have been many moments global financial services provider, Northern Trust has enjoyed a long- for both Dan and me when we have said, tonight is incredible, it is one of the Jana R. Schreuder standing and significant relationship with Lyric. Based in Chicago, memorable performances of our lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international the firm has played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign star and it is evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.”Lyric is and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Production to Lyric as presenting sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees. cosponsor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust has cosponsored several mainstage productions including last season’s My Fair THE NERENBERG FOUNDATION Lady. "Being a good corporate citizen is very During their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg important," William Osborn once said. "It were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and allows us to do our part to help keep the City subscribed for more than 30 years. They were of Chicago strong and viable and, in the end, especially supportive of The Patrick G. and Shirley this is beneficial to everyone." W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. NUVEEN INVESTMENTS Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away Nuveen Investments, represented by Lyric Board of Directors in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and and Finance committee member John P. Amboian, has been an Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants enthusiastic supporter for more than three decades. “Lyric Opera to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ is one of the gems of Chicago; a world-class endeavor in every thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift. aspect of its operation” proudly says John. Dedicated to developing the next generation of opera lovers, Nuveen Investments provided NIB FOUNDATION John P. Amboian general support for Lyric’s education and community engagement Founding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia initiatives, and has underwritten NEXT student discount tickets. and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to Nuveen Investments has also cosponsored several extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental mainstage opera productions and has committed causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB Campaign. Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions Sonia Florian including this season’s production of Orphée et Eurydice, and made MR. and MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHER a major commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David In addition to their magnanimous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. collections of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided a closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third floor of the Lyric many years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s to 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Park concert for six consecutive years. Most recently, David and Sheila generously Production Sponsorship Committee, and was provided an Operathon Challenge Grant, supported the Opera Ball, and made a awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most leadership gift towards the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is proud to prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of the Board of Directors, on the commitment to the company. Executive Committee, and on seven sub-committees of the Board.

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MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORN PATRICK G. RYAN and Bill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN Lyric Opera family. They have subscribed to Lyric for Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication over two decades and enjoy participating in special of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when events such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have Auction. The Osborns have generously contributed to shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, Campaign. Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s in 1988), and the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Initiative. In recognition of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Executive Committee. Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special POWERSHARES QQQ project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée PowerShares QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed The Director and Head of Global ETFs, PowerShares by Invesco, is Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center in recognition of their extraordinary proud to sponsor the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera. gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs They previously cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and of the Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice President and a member of the Executive, Romeo and Juliet, and they generously cosponsored Lyric’s new Nominating/Governance, and Innovation Committees of Lyric’s Board of Directors production of The Magic Flute last season. During the 2017/18 and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Dan Draper season, PowerShares QQQ generously cosponsors Turandot. Ryan was awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in PowerShares global network recognizes the value in helping recognition of her many years of devoted service to the company. investors around the world, but with headquarters in Downers Grove, "We also support Lyric Opera’s RICHARD O. RYAN deep engagement with the local community to foster A passionate supporter of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan a rich culture of arts right here in Chicago." Opera Center, Lyric’s premier artist development program, Richard cosponsors Ryan Opera Center soprano Ann Toomey. PRITZKER FOUNDATION An ardent opera lover, Richard has been a Lyric subscriber for The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of more than 45 years. He recently made a generous leadership arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric commitment to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign for the Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker stage improvement project. Richard proudly serves as a member of the Ryan Opera Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New Center Board, and was formerly a Guild Board member. Lyric is grateful for the Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family munificent support of Richard Ryan. Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric Opera is DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. children, families and educational enrichment through the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, Jack and Catherine Scholl Opera of Chicago reach audiences of junior high and Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Board of high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the first time. Lyric Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Committees; Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing Chris is also a valued member of the Board of Directors, support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine and serves on its Nominating/Governance and Finance A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education. Committees. Together they have made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, including this EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. They have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground Campaign, Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the and Lyric Unlimited. Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION most recently last season’s presentation of Norma. Lyric is honored A graduate of the University of Illinois and life-long arts philanthropist Lloyd E. to have Brenda Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well Rigler established the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation in 1977 in Brenda Shapiro as the Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited memory of his partner to provide major support to arts organizations in Los Angeles Committees. and nationwide. In 1994, the late Mr. Rigler established the Classic Arts Showcase in an effort to provide free arts programming to those who could not afford to attend WILLIAM and ARLENE STALEY live performances. Mr. Rigler’s nephew James Rigler now serves as President of the Loyal subscribers for more than four decades, Bill and Foundation and continues the important legacy established by his late uncle. As Orli Staley have contributed to the Annual Campaign Lyric strives to expand its reach and relevance, it is grateful to the Rigler-Deutsch as well as provided vital support for the Ryan Opera Foundation for its support of the annual Operathon broadcast on 98.7WFMT. The Center. Recently, they have enabled hundreds of students Rigler-Deutsch Foundation also generously cosponsored Lyric’s company premiere to see mainstage Lyric productions by supporting Lyric of Les Troyens last season and is cosponsoring Die Walküre this season. Unlimited’s Performances for Students initiative. Lyric is honored to have Orli Staley serve as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board. The Staleys join the production sponsor family this season with their generous cosponsorship of Lyric’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice.

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LIZ STIFFEL THE WALLACE FOUNDATION A passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a longstanding and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has cosponsored everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative several mainstage productions, most recently Carousel (2014/15), ideas for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what Das Rheingold and My Fair Lady (both 2016/17), and this season’s works and what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Faust and the Celebrating the results to help others. Lyric Opera is the recipient of a multi-phase grant as 100 years of Bernstein concert. Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 1 part of the Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant in recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Liz is funding research and analysis of Lyric Opera Stiffel was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in audiences, and will reveal ways in which Lyric can recognition of her continuing dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art maximize its reach in the community. Lyric’s work forms are beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind has to offer will inform lessons that will be shared with the to our children, our nation, and ourselves.” broader field.

MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. WASHLOW MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCE Roberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members Lyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity of the Lyric family. For more than four decades, and leadership of the Vance Family. The Vances they have enjoyed attending Lyric performances and have generously sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric special events, and have generously supported the premieres and new productions, most recently last Annual Campaign. Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, season’s My Fair Lady. For many years, the Vances have and Errant Families together sponsored more than 20 supported emerging singers through their sponsorship Lyric productions. The Washlows made a generous of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the activities. Roberta and Bob have annually remained valued members of the Carol and William Vance Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous production sponsorship family, and generously cosponsor this season’s production sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an of Rigoletto, their tenth opera cosponsorship, continuing a beloved family tradition. esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. “Opera has always touched me,” past President. Bill Vance was awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most Roberta once said. “I love the drama, passion, music, and excitement of a live prestigious honor, in recognition of his leadership, steadfast support, and many years performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I hope this beautiful art form will of devoted service to Lyric Opera. continue for generations.”

DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION HELEN and SAM ZELL Donna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, Helen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. They are longtime encouraging talented young artists as Lead Sponsor of Rising subscribers to Lyric Opera and have contributed to the Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on Annual Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam have 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people cosponsored several new productions, most recently to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported the first two installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, Das Donna Van Eekeren Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for Rheingold (2016/17) and this season’s Die Walküre. college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including Lyric’s premiere of Les Troyens (2016/17) and this season’s production of I Puritani. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Finance Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board.

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The Breaking New Ground Campaign was launched in January 2013 to implement the company’s blueprint for a world-class, twenty-first century opera company. This Campaign allows Lyric to continue to produce major productions of the highest caliber, update media, marketing, and audience development programs, and fortify Lyric’s endowment. The current focus of the Campaign is to modernize the stage of the Ardis Krainik Theatre with state-of-the-art equipment. To that end, we have established a new Insull Society comprised of loyal patrons who are contributing $10,000 or more for this critically important stage project. To join the Insull Society, please call 312.827.5675. Lyric Opera is grateful to the following donors who have made contributions of $5,000 and above to the Campaign as of January 2, 2018.

Anonymous Jim and Kay Mabie Caerus Foundation, Inc. Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel David and Orit Carpenter Nuveen Investments The Monument Trust (UK) Sheila and David Ormesher The Negaunee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols PwC J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Foundation David Ramon Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley Welsh Ryan Estate of Marilyn J. Snoble

Julie and Roger Baskes John and Ann Amboian Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Robert and Evelyn McCullen Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Allan and Elaine Muchin Nancy W. Knowles Northern Trust Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Susan and Robert E. Wood II

Anonymous Anonymous (2) Abbott and Abbott Fund Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius The Barker Welfare Foundation The Crown Family Marion A. Cameron Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson Ann and Reed Coleman Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Nancy Dehmlow Estate of Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque Anonymous (2) John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell The Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation The Ferguson-Yntema Family Charitable Trust Julius Frankel Foundation Elaine Frank Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz and The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Sue and Melvin Gray Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson The Harris Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Lavin Family Foundation Josef and Margot Lakonishok Brooks and Hope McCormick Foundation Estate of Arthur B. Logan Blythe Jaski McGarvie Robert H. Malott Jeffrey C. Neal and Susan J. Cellmer Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Edward B. Rouse and Barbara R. Rouse Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Stephen A. Kaplan and Alyce K. Sigler Anne Zenzer Rose L. Shure Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Anonymous Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Washlow The Butler Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Jack and Peggy Crowe Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Anonymous ITW Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Anderson Edgar D. Jannotta Family Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel John W. and Rosemary K. Brown Family Foundation NIB Foundation Joyce Chelberg Pritzker Foundation Vinay Couto and Lynn Vincent Estate of Harry A. Root, Jr. Ann M. Drake Richard O. Ryan Lois and Steve Eisen/Eisen Family Foundation Clark and Adine Stayman Trusts Lloyd Gerlach, in memory of Mary Ann Gerlach Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Virginia and Gary Gerst Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis Ada and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein James N. and Laurie V. Bay Phillip and Norma Gordon Bulley & Andrews HMR Designs Amy and Paul Carbone Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Considine Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Patricia Hyde Ethel and William Gofen Susan M. Miller Jenner & Block Near North Chapter

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Breaking New Ground - continued

William C. and Nancy Richardson Mrs. John H. Andersen Michal C. Wadsworth Candy and Gary Ridgway Dr. Michael Angell Gary Walther Collin and Lili Roche Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Mrs. Robert E. Sargent E. M. Bakwin David and Linda Wesselink Marsha Serlin Helen Brach Foundation Larry G. Simpson and Edward T. Zasadil Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Anonymous (2) Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Anonymous Howard E. Jessen Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Ken and Amy Aldridge Dr. Anne M. Juhasz Jane B. and John C. Colman American Airlines Elizabeth A. Khalil Mitch Crask, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Burt and Mary Ann Lewis Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Diane and Michael Beemer Maura Ann McBreen Drs. George and Sally Dunea Ross and Patricia D. Bender Sarah Miller Daniel Groteke and Patricia Taplick Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi Davis Matt and Carrie Parr Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Erika E. Erich Karen and Tom Phillips Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Allan and Meline Pickus Foundation Carrie and Harry Hightman Mary Patricia Gannon Ellie Radvanovsky Capt. Bernardo Iorgulesco USMC Memorial Fund James R. Grimes The Rhoades Foundation Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Carl J. Hildner Norman Sackar John and Mary Kohlmeier James and Mary Houston Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell Richard and Susan Levy Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Claudia Saran Lester and Mary Jane Marriner The King Family Foundation Alan Schriesheim Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Reinhardt H. and Shirley R. Jahn Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric S. Smith Kate B. Morrison Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Kenneth R. Norgan Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher Ellie Radvanovsky Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Taylor Ilene Simmons Howard Solomon and Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Virginia Tobiason Mrs. John Stanek David J. Varnerin Richard and Marietta Toft Ms. Carla M. Thorpe W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Gwenyth B. Warton Owen and Linda Youngman U.S. Bank Pam and David Waud Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Mrs. John A. Wing

Lyric is extremely grateful to the many donors who have made gifts of less than $5,000 to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Space limitations prevent listing the names of these donors but their generosity is sincerely appreciated. Look To The Future – Endowed Chairs and Programs ENDOWED CHAIRS The Guild Board of Directors LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED FUNDS The Women’s Board General Director Verdi Endowed Chair Katherine A. Abelson Educational Endowment Endowed Chair Wagner Endowed Chair – A Gift From An Fund In Loving Memory Of Ardis Krainik Anonymous Donor Estate of Robert and Isabelle Bass John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols George F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Music Director Endowed Chair Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Concertmaster Education Endowment Fund Endowed Chair Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Director Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Chapters’ Endowed Chair For Education Lighting Designer Endowed Chair In Memory Of Alfred Glasser RYAN OPERA CENTER ENDOWED FUNDS In Honor Of Duane Schuler The Ryan Opera Center Board Opera Center Anonymous Jannotta Family Ryan Opera Center Director Endowed Chair Thomas Doran Music Director Endowed Chair J. Thomas Hurvis In Memory of Richard P. Kiphart Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Edgar D. Jannotta Family Robert and Ellen Marks American Opera Vocal Studies Program Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Philip G. Lumpkin In Honor Of Gianna Rolandi Robert Marks Baroque Opera Endowed Chair – A Gift From Allan and Elaine Muchin Production and An Anonymous Donor Estate of Marjorie Mayhall Technical Director Endowed Chair Richard Pearlman Charitable Trust Fund for Music Mr. and Mrs. William H. Redfield Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Bel Canto Opera Endowed Chair Lois B. Siegel Endowed Chair Joanne Silver W. James and Maxine P. Farrell In Memory Of Harold Beider French Opera Endowed Chair The Lois L. Ward Trust Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair LYRIC OPERA ENDOWED PROGRAM Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment Fund The NIB Foundation Italian Opera Distinguished Conductor Award Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Endowed Chair Sarah and A. Watson Armour III Regenstein Foundation Mozart Endowed Chair PRODUCTION ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory Of Ruth Regenstein Nelson Cornelius Trust Mary Patricia Gannon James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Puccini Endowed Chair Joanne Silver

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 53 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Major Contributors—Special Events and Project Support Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by January 2, 2018. Annual Meeting Dinner 2017 Ellen and Jim Stirling Wine Auction 2018 Strategy&, part of the PwC network Stu Hirsh Orchestra Presenting Sponsor: Thierer Family Foundation Northern Trust Audience Development Initiative U.S. Bank/Marsha Cruzan The Wallace Foundation Catalogue Sponsor: Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Liz Stiffel Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts Operathon The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Live Auction Sponsor Ardmore Associates Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family 98.7WFMT The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Foundation Wine Auction Reception Sponsor Operathon Merchandise Sponsor Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Cast Parties Fellowes, Inc. Donald and Anne Edwards Wine Auction Dinner Sponsor Orphée et Eurydice PBS Great Performances Judy and Bill Goldberg An Anonymous Donor Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Lead Sponsor Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Liz Stiffel Dinner Wine Sponsor An Anonymous Donor Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein Concert Sponsors Liz Stiffel Sonia Florian Founder's Society Sponsors James N. and Laurie V. Bay Margot and Josef Lakonishok William and Cathleen Osborn The Galvin Family Anne and Chris Reyes Innovation Initiative Media Sponsor Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Additional Support Ethel and William Gofen Make It Better Media Lyric Signature Events Jim and Kay Mabie Founder's Circle Sponsors PwC Rosemary and Dean L. Buntrock Bain & Company / Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. United Scrap Metal, Inc. Pam and Russ Strobel Rouse Official Airline Virginia Tobiason Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP American Airlines Overture Society Luncheons CIBC Bank USA Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Donald and Anne Edwards Opening Night Gala Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Brent and Katie Gledhill Aon Susan M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Harris Family Foundation Opera Ball Piotr Beczała in Recital Katherine P. Harris/Caryn and King Harris/ ITW Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Northern Trust Pam and Joe Szokol Planned Giving Seminars ITW Opening Night Gala and Opera Ball Fund William Blair & Company Jenner & Block LLP Abbott Morgan Stanley (2) Annie and Gregory K. Jones Family Foundation Ada and Whitney Addington Projected English Titles Kirkland & Ellis with Linda and Dennis Myers BMO Harris Bank Rebecca and Lester Knight Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Silvia and Jay Krehbiel Mrs. Audre D. Carlin Blythe Jaski McGarvie Amy and Paul Carbone Renée Fleming Initiative Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Greg and Mamie Case Anonymous Prince Charitable Trusts closerlook, inc. Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation The Comer Foundation Fund The Crown Family John Raitt The Crown Family J. Thomas Hurvis Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Eisen Family Foundation The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Erica L. Sandner Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro Jr. John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Sipi Metals Corporation Harris Family Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Jane and David Stone Charitable Trust King and Caryn Harris Spring Musical Celebration 2018 Carl and Marilynn Thoma Pam and Joe Szokol Lead Sponsor: UL Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr. Zurich Meredith and Patrick Wood-Prince Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner Premium Patrons: Additional Support: Jenner & Block Greg and Mamie Case Rebecca and Lester Knight Leslie Bertholdt ITW Lois and Steve Eisen in honor of Regan Nancy W. Knowles Friedmann Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff Daniel T. Manoogian Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Quarles & Brady LLP/Patrick J. Bitterman Reed Smith LLP Edgar D. Jannotta Betsy and Andy Rosenfield Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Skadden/Rodd Schreiber and Susan Hassan Spencer Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Nancy S. Searle James A. Staples Paul Wood and The Honorable Corinne Wood Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Liz Stiffel

54 | February 17 - March 16, 2018 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Lyric Unlimited Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of Lyric Unlimited programs. Listings include contributors of gifts of $5,000 and above received by January 2, 2018. With Major Support from the Caerus Foundation, Inc. Caminos a la ópera (Pathways to Opera) Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Chicago Voices Leadership Funding: J. Thomas Hurvis The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ford Foundation Additional Support: The Chicago Community Trust City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Hundreds of students go behind the scenes at the Lyric Opera House though Lyric Unlimited Student Backstage Tours Eisen Family Foundation Cycles of my Being song cycle Anonymous (4) Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Eric and Deb Hirschfield The Barker Welfare Foundation The Brinson Foundation Baxter International, Inc. Elaine Frank Empower Youth! Helen Brach Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Igniting Creativity through the Arts Envestnet Patricia Hyde Leadership Funding: Renée Fleming Nuveen Investments Centene Charitable Foundation The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation - Pre-Opera Talks Additional Support: Morris & Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund Raynette and Ned Boshell Eisen Family Foundation Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Molex Senior Matinee Eric and Deb Hirschfield MUFG Buehler Family Foundation Northern Trust Lannan Foundation Family Day at Lyric Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Bank of America Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Fellow Travelers Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer The Retirement Research Foundation The Wallace Foundation Siragusa Family Foundation NEXT Student Ticket Program Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Leadership Funding: Student Backstage Tours General Support The Grainger Foundation Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund Leadership Funding: Additional Support: Youth Opera Council The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Paul and Mary Anderson Terry J. Medhurst Additional Support: Penelope and Robert Steiner

With Major Support provided from the Nancy W. Knowles Stars of Lyric Opera at Student and Family Performances Fund Millennium Park 2017 Chicago Public Schools Bus Scholarship John Hart and Carol Prins Lead Sponsor: U.S. Bank Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation closerlook, inc. Segal Family Foundation Cosponsors: Opera in the Neighborhoods Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Anonymous Anonymous Donor The Scorpions’ Sting Amy and Paul Carbone Opera Residencies for Schools Anonymous (2) Crain-Maling Foundation Anonymous Joyce Chelberg Fifth Third Bank BNY Mellon Dover Foundation Annie & Greg Jones Family Foundation Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Brent and Katie Gledhill Sipi Metals Corp. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Robert and Evelyn McCullen Lake Geneva Chapter Polk Bros. Foundation Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Walter Family Foundation Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Performances for Students Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow Patricia Hyde Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Wintrust Community Banks Music Performance Trust Fund and Film Funds Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 55 “Don’t let your boat sail o before you name Lyric in your estate plan.” If you have been thrilled by the operas you’ve seen, you may wish to consider making a charitable bequest to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Planned giving is a meaningful way to ensure that Lyric will continue producing grand opera of the highest quality. A gift to Lyric creates a beautiful legacy that will be enjoyed by thousands for years to come. All planned givers are invited to join Lyric’s Overture Society, and enjoy exclusive benefi ts of membership.

Così fan tutte by Mozart Planned Gifts You can include a bequest for Lyric in your will, revocable trust or the benefi ciary designation of your IRA or life insurance policy. You can consider other planned giving strategies too, such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts and retained life estates. Write your name in Lyric’s history book by leaving your legacy for future generations. CORY WEAVER‚SAN FRANCISCO OPERA FRANCISCO WEAVER‚SAN CORY

If you would like further information, please contact Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Senior Director of Planned Giving, at (312) 827-5677, or [email protected]. Commemorative Gifts Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness. In Memory Of: Ardis Krainik Nancy Wald Mary Galvin Dorothy A. Angelos from Mr. and Mrs. Mead Montgomery from Humanist Fund from the Galvin Family from Mychal P. Angelos and Elizabeth Welsh Ruth and Irving Waldshine Christina and Ron Gidwitz Irene Antoniou John A. Leer Jr., MD from Deane Ellis from Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney from her many friends and family from Mary Anne Leer Sheila von Wiese Ruth Ann Gillis Jeane Ayers Millicent Leibfritz from her many friends and family from Lisbeth Stiffel from her many friends and family from Ms. Linda Kutt Nikolay Zhizhin Keith Kiley Goldstein John R. Blair Hugo Melvoin from Larisa Zhizhin from Patricia O. Cox from Mrs. John R. Blair from Melvoin Foundation Edgar D. Jannotta Sandra Box Virginia Byrne Mooney In Honor Of: from Sandra L. Grung from Barbara Box from John and Kathleen Vondran Julie and Roger Baskes Baby Krehbiel Martha A. Boyce Dr. Antonio Navarrete from Michael and Sally Feder, The Irving from Marie Campbell from David E. Boyce from Virginia Navarrete Harris Foundation, Ruth Ann M. Gillis Margot and Josef Lakonishok Jack Crowe Kenneth G. Pigott and Michael J. McGuinnis, and from Liz and Arsen Manugian from Lisbeth Stiffel from Renée Fleming Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Mary Anne Leer Lois Dunn Dr. Robert A. Pringle Julie Baskes from The Warranty Group from Kathy Dunn from Marla McCormick Pringle from John Holzhueter and Peter J. Wender Jeanne Malkin Floyd Fulkerson Bertha Goodman Rabin Jim Baughman from Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg and from Mr. and Mrs. David Bomier from Dr. Sondra C. Rabin from Marilyn and Lillian Spracker and an Anonymous donor Catherine Graham Diane Ragains Michael and Sally Feder Mrs. Chris Murphy from Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan, from Mr. James W. Tucker Janet Burch from Prince Charitable Trusts James N. and Laurie V. Bay, Marilyn and Roland Resnick from Mr. Gordon Brodfuehrer and Sue Niemi Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa, from Anonymous Donors Roberta Evans from Elaine and Harold Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss, Joan Richards Renee Crown Rachel Peterson Lisbeth Stiffel, and Elizabeth Taylor from Craig A. Sirles from Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow from Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Marion Greenman Howard Morton Robins Lois and Steve Eisen Sondra Radvanovsky from her many friends and family from his many friends and family from Mrs. Myrna Kaplan and from Ellie Radvanovsky Katie Jacobson Edwin J. Seeboeck Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Karger Jr. Richard Ryan from Lisbeth Stiffel from James Heim Maxine Farrell from Sally and Michael Feder Mrs. Edgar D. Jannotta Stephen Schulson from Abbott Fund Shirley Ryan from Sandra L. Grung from Susan B. Schulson Sally and Michael Feder from J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Lee and Billey Jennings Dr. Alan J. Shapiro from Nora Jaskowiak and Foundation and Marlene Phillips from Alfred G. Goldstein from Sherie Coren Shapiro Matthew Hinerfeld Mary Selander Richard P. Kiphart Donald Sinclair Sally Feder from Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Hennessy and from Renée Fleming, J. Thomas Hurvis, from Mr. Edward Sanderson from Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Melissa Hennessy and his many friends and family Janet Thau Renée Fleming Liz Stiffel William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt from Evanston Chapter and her many friends from Ms. Paula Milone, Robert L. Turner, from Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. from Sheila Ann Hegy and family and The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation McGuinnis and Janis Wellin Notz and Nancy W. Knowles Dr. William Warren Regan and Philip Friedman John K. Notz Jr. from Roberta L. and Robert J. Washlow from Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin from Mrs. Myrna Kaplan and Roberta and Robert Washlow Isabel H Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Karger Jr. from Dr. and Mrs. Mark D. Blitstein from an Anonymous Donor

56 | February 17 - March 16, 2018 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Dan Novak Craig Terry Julia Faulkner Renée Fleming Faculty Director Music Director Director of Vocal Studies Advisor Julia Faulkner The Ryan Opera Center The Jannotta Family Elizabeth F. Cheney W. Stephen Smith Board Endowed Chair Endowed Chair Foundation Voice Instruction The Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program Ensemble Endowed Chair in honor of Gianna Rolandi

Marco Armiliato Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Harry Bicket Deborah Birnbaum Sir Andrew Davis Matthew A. Epstein Renée Fleming Matthew Polenzani Guest Master Artists Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Contralto WHITNEY DIANA ANN LINDSAY LAUREN Alan Darling MORRISON NEWMAN TOOMEY METZGER DECKER Laurann Gilley Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Bénédicte Jourdois J. Thomas Hurvis Anonymous Donor, The Susan and Richard P. Anonymous Donor Anonymous Donor, Celeste Rue Michael and Salme Kiphart Family, Richard O. Susan M. Miller, Harju Steinberg, Ryan, Richard W. Shepro Thierer Family Eric Weimer Mrs. J. W. and Lindsay E. Roberts Foundation Pedro Yanez Van Gorkom Coaching Staff

Julia Klein Derek Matson Marina Vecci Alessandra Visconti Melissa Wittmeier Foreign Language Instruction

Dawn Arnold Katie Klein Tenor Tenor Tenor Baritone Baritone ALEC JOSH MARIO EMMETT TAKAOKI E. Loren Meeker CARLSON LOVELL ROJAS O’HANLON ONISHI Elise Sandell Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Acting and Movement Stepan Company Maurice J. and Elizabeth F. Cheney George L. Jewell, Renée Fleming Instruction Patricia Frank Foundation Lois B. Siegel, Foundation, Drs. Joan and Russ International Orit Carpenter Zajtchuk Foundation for Arts Performance Psychology and Culture Roger Pines Guest Lecturer and Consultant

Artistic/Production Personnel Kathleen Kelly Edwin Outwater Conductors

Elise Sandell Director Bass-Baritone Bass Pianist ALAN PATRICK MADELINE Peggy Stenger HIGGS GUETTI SLETTEDAHL Bill Walters Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Stage Managers Heidi Heutel Bohn, The C. G. Pinnell Nancy Dehmlow, Lawrence O. Corry, Family Loretta N. Julian, Theresa Ham Robert C. Marks Philip G. Lumpkin Lucy Lindquist Maureen Reilly Wardrobe

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 57 Alumni Perform at Lyric — and Around the World — in 2017/18

MATTHEW POLENZANI (Duke/Rigoletto; Nadir/The Pearl Fishers) I am so grateful to Lyric Opera of Chicago for giving me the chance to learn and grow in an amazing environment where beautiful art, made at the highest level, is a daily experience. I was blessed to have made my debut under the baton of Maestro Bruno Bartoletti, with Kiri Te Kanawa, Michael Sylvester, Robert Lloyd, and Alexandru Agache in Simon Boccanegra. I will never forget walking down to the front center of the stage and delivering my line after a trumpet fanfare. It was heady and exciting stuff for a 27-year-old who’d not grown up listening to opera, but had come to love it with a deep and abiding passion. The voice lessons the Center provided, the classes in language and stage deportment, the opportunity to share the stage with great singers like Sam Ramey, Kurt Moll, Catherine Malfitano, and Ben Heppner among so many others — these experiences are priceless! Without the training, planning, and work done in my years in the Ryan Opera Center, and the help and leadership of the staff, I would not be where I am today. I am now about to celebrate my 20th consecutive season with the Metropolitan Opera, where I have given more than 350 performances. I want to give a big thank you to the donors who continue to support the Ryan Opera Center, allowing it to remain one of the best training programs for singers in the world. Your love and care for this beautiful art form helps ensure its survival, and your support means the world to me and the emerging artists you are helping today.

AMANDA EMILY MAJESKI BIRSAN Opéra National de Paris Welsh National Opera La clemenza di Tito Don Giovanni JONATHAN JOHNSON Canadian Opera Company Anna Bolena

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago is recognized as one of the premier professional artist-development programs in the world. To make a gift in support of the Ryan Opera Center’s efforts, or for more information, please visit lyricopera.org/ryanoperacenter, or call Meaghan Stainback at 312.827.5691. LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Lyric Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by December 1, 2017. ANDREW CIOFFI Artist Support, Special Events, (Left to right) First year bass-baritone Alan Higgs with Ryan Opera Center alumni and Project Sponsors Quinn Kelsey and Matthew Polenzani in Rigoletto.

Duds for Divas Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Final Auditions Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Cozad Family Foreign Language Instruction Erma S. Medgyesy Guest Master Artist Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ladies’ Choice Celebration Lead Individual Sponsor James N. and Laurie V. Bay Lead Foundation Sponsor Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund General Support Debbie K. Wright Benefit Table Purchasers Estate of Audrey A. Zywicki Anonymous (3) Aria Society Julie and Roger Baskes ($100,000 and above) Artist Circle Heidi Heutel Bohn Anonymous ($5,000 to $9,999) Michael and Sally Feder Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Anonymous (3) Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Julian Family Foundation Thomas Doran Philip G. Lumpkin Platinum Grand Benefactor Mrs. Sheila Dulin Jean McLaren and John Nitschke ($50,000 to $99,999) Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis William J. Nieman Family James and Mary Houston Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Golden Grand Benefactors The Kip Kelley Family Thierer Family Foundation ($25,000 to $49,999) Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Debbie K. Wright Ingrid Peters Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Lyric Young Professionals Marilee and Richard Wehman Launchpad Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Marcus Boggs Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Leslie Fund, Inc. Ensemble Friends Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III ($10,000 to $24,999) Master Classes Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Mrs. Thomas D. Heath C. Bekerman, M.D. Rising Stars in Concert Martha A. Hesse Tamara Conway April 7, 2018 Anne Megan Davis National Auditions Fred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney American Airlines Lead Sponsor Drucker Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Renée Fleming Master Class Erika E. Erich Julian Family Foundation Michael and Sally Feder Sponsors Mary Patricia Gannon Training Program BMO Harris Bank Sue and Melvin Gray National Endowment for the Arts Dentons US LLP Miriam U. Hoover Patricia A. Kenney and Voice Instruction Illinois Arts Council Gregory J. O’Leary Anonymous Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial Fund Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Stephen A. Kaplan Family Foundation Mary Ellen Hennessy Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Jennifer L. Stone Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Frank B. Modruson and Lynne C. Shigley Phyllis Neiman WFMT Recital Series Margo and Michael Oberman and Family Julie and Roger Baskes Rising Stars in Concert Broadcast Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Donna Van Eekeren Foundation Workshop Performances The George L. Shields Foundation Martha A. Hesse Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Rising Stars in Concert Reception Dan and Patty Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Walter Family Foundation Harriet Weinstein Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana Chyu

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 59 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Planned Giving at Lyric Advisory Council Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chairman

Patrick Bitterman, Quarles & Brady LLP Michael A. LoVallo, Reed Smith Christopher Brathwaite, William Blair Louis Marchi, Fidelity Investments Mary C. Downie, BMO Financial Group Judy McCue, retired, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Barbara Grayson, Jenner & Block David McNeel, CIBC Marguerite H. Griffin, Northern Trust Gina Oderda, Mayer Brown Benetta Jenson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank Lynne L. Pantalena, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management Neil Kawashima, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Kathleen O’Hagan Scallan, Loeb & Loeb Dorothy Korbel, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management Anita Medina Tyson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank The Overture Society The Overture Society consists of those esteemed supporters who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts, or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric in the future. These generous gifts ensure Lyric’s artistic progress well into the twenty-first century for the benefit of future Lyric audiences. Lyric is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society: Bel Canto Benefactors These Overture Society members have made a major planned gift to Lyric as well as a generous annual gift. For information about the Bel Canto Benefactors, please call Jonathan Siner, Lyric’s Senior Director of Planned Giving, at 312.827.5677. Anonymous (18) David and Orit Carpenter Mrs. John C. Hedley David and Justine K. Mintzer Martha P. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard James W. Chamberlain Josephine E. Heindel James and Mary Beth Morehouse Charles Chris Shaw Louise Abrahams Paula Hannaway Crown Concordia Hoffmann Allan and Elaine Muchin Lois B. Siegel Dr. Whitney Addington Renée Crown Edgar D. Jannotta Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Ilene Simmons Mrs. Roger A. Anderson Thomas Doran Ronald B. Johnson Murphy Larry G. Simpson Ross C. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ericson John and Kerma Karoly David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Craig Sirles Karen G. Andreae Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Kip Kelley John H. Nelson Joan M. Solbeck Catherine Aranyi Dr. and Mrs. Paul Y. Feng James C. Kemmerer John D. and Alexandra C. Mrs. Jay Spaulding L. Robert Artoe Robert F. Finke LeRoy and Laura Klemt Nichols Lisbeth Cherniack Stiffel Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and John Nigh Mr. and Mrs. James P. Stirling Alvin R. Beatty Elaine Frank Dr. W. Peter Hansen Joan L. Pantsios Mary Stowell Marlys A. Beider Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Dr. William R. Lawrence Irma Parker Carla M. Thorpe Julie Anne Benson Rhoda and Henry S. Frank Thomas and Lise Lawson Julia Pernet Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Merrill and Judy Blau Richard J. Franke Carol L. Linne Frances Pietch Virginia Tobiason Ann Blickensderfer Mary Patricia Gannon Philip G. Lumpkin Kenneth Porrello and Sherry Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason Dr. Gregory L. Boshart George and Mary Ann Gardner Daniel T. Manoogian McFall Joan and Marco Weiss Danolda (Dea) Brennan James K. Genden and Robert C. Marks Nathaniel W. Pusey Mrs. Robert G. Weiss George F. and Linda L. Brusky Alma Koppedraijer Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Claudia L. Winkler Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Sue and Melvin Gray Nancy Lauter McDougal Lyn and Bill Redfield Florence Winters Budzik Harry J. Griffiths, M.D. Bill Melamed Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Christopher Carlo and Robert Julian W. Harvey Margaret and Craig Milkint Chatka Ruggiero Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Chaney Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Susan M. Miller Mary T. Schafer Anne Zenzer Society Members Anonymous (43) Dr. and Mrs. Boone Robert J. Callahan Roger Dickinson Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Michael Goldberger Valerie and Joseph Abel Brackett Patrick V. Casali Ms. Janet E. Diehl Engel John A. Goldstein Carol A. Abrioux Robert and Phyllis Brauer Esther Charbit Mr. and Mrs. William S. Martha L. Faulhaber Dr. J. Brian Greis Judy Allen Mrs. William A. Briggs Jeffrey K. Chase, J.D. Dillon Nadine Ferguson James R. Grimes Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Candace Balfour Broecker Ramona Choos Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Felicia Finkelman Patricia Grogan Richard N. Bailey and the Estate of J. Salvatore L. Cianciolo Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. John C. Carolyn Hallman David G. Baker Howard W. Broecker Heinke K. Clark Ms. Barbara J. Doerner Forbes Carl J. Halperin Susann Ball Leona and Daniel Robert and Margery Coen Thomas M. Dolan Barbara Gail Franch Ms. Geraldine Haracz Constance and Liduina Bronstein Dr. and Mrs. Peter V. Mary Louise Duhamel James Victor Franch Andrew Hatchell Barbantini Kathryn Y. Brown Conroy Mrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr. Ms. Susan Frankel William P. Hauworth Margaret Basch Richard M. and Andrea J. Sharon Conway Kathy Dunn Thomas H. Franks, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. David J. Mrs. Bill Beaton Brown Sarah J. Cooney Richard L. Eastline Allen J. Frantzen Hayden Lynn Bennett Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. W. Gene Corley Carol A. Eastman Dr. Paul Froeschl Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Joan I. Berger Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Family Lowell and Judy Eckberg Marie and Gregory Fugiel Ronald G. Hedberg Barbara Bermudez Bruske III Joseph E. Corrigan Lucy A. Elam, in memory Sheilah Purcell Garcia, Mary Mako Helbert Patrick J. Bitterman Steven and Helen Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. of Elizabeth Elam Lady Witton Martha A. Hesse M. J. Black Buchanan Cottey Mr. and Mrs. Don Susan Boatman Garland Stephanie and Allen Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh Morton and Una Creditor Elleman Scott P. George Hochfelder D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Burger and Mr. William Kathryn M. Cunningham Cherelynn A. Elliott Mr. Lyle Gillman Mrs. Marion Hoffman Blumenthal Burger Barbara L. Dean Terrence M. W. Ellsworth John F. Gilmore James and Mary Lunz Ned and Raynette Boshell Muriel A. Burnet Donald A. Deutsch Joseph R. Ender Bruce A. Gober, M.D. and Houston David Boyce Lisa Bury Phyllis Diamond Dr. James A. Eng Donald H. Ratner H. Eileen Howard

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Joseph H. Huebner Eva Lutovsky Linda Moses Novak Eugene Rzym, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner Kenneth N. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malatesta Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Adaline Rzym Jean M. Turnmire Michael Huskey Jeanne Randall Malkin Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson David Sachs Paul and Judith Tuszynski Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, Ann Chassin Mallow Stephen S. Orphanos Mrs. Philip H. Schaff, Jr. Ultmann Family Charitable USMC Memorial Fund Dr. and Mrs. Karl Lee Manders Jonathan Orser Douglas M. Schmidt Remainder Unitrust Barbara A. Joabson Mrs. John Jay Markham Robert W. Parsons, M.D. Franklin R. Schmidt Marlene A. Van Skike John Arthur Johnson James Massie and Dr. Christine George R. Paterson Lois K. Schmidt Raita Vilnins Laurence P. Johnson Winter Massie Dr. Joan E. Patterson Donald Seibert Dr. Malcolm Vye Nancy E. Johnson Michael M. and Diane George Pepper, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Shaw Darcy Lynn Walker Roy A. Johnson Mazurczak Elizabeth Anne Peters Mette and David Shayne Gary T. Walther Ms. Barbara Mair Jones James G. and Laura G. Susanne P. Petersson David A. Sherman Albert Wang Janet Jones McCormick Genevieve M. Phelps Jared Shlaes Louella Krueger Ward Moreen C. Jordan Gia and Paul McDermott Karen and Dick Pigott Dr. Alfred L. and Mildred Siegel Boyd Edmonston & Edward Dr. Anne Juhasz William F. McHugh Ms. Lois Polakoff Joanne Silver Warro Endowment Fund Mr. Theodore Kalogeresis Florence D. McMillan Martilias A. Porreca, CFP Andrew Barry Simmons and Karl N. Wechter Stuart Kane Leoni Zverow McVey and Mrs. Edward S. Price Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini Patricia M. Wees Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan J. William McVey Roberta Lyn Anderson Rains Dr. Ira Singer Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Kenneth Kelling Martina M. Mead Robert L. Rappel, Jr. Norman and Mirella Smith Claude M. Weil Paul R. Keske Mr. and Mrs. Leland V. Meader Sherrie Kahn Reddick Mary Soleiman Eric Weimer and Edwin Hanlon Chuck and Kathy Killman Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Melamed Keith A. Reed and Elaine Soter Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Weinberg Diana Hunt King Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Beth Kesterson Reed Philip and Sylvia Spertus Joanna L. Weiss Neil King Mesrobian Michael and Susan “Holly” James A. Staples James M. Wells Esther G. Klatz Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Meyers Reiter Sherie B. Stein Mrs. Melville W. Wendell R. William Klein, Jr. Ms. Barbara Terman Michaels Evelyn R. Richer K. M. Stelletello Sandra Wenner J. Peter Kline Marilyn E. Miller Jennie M. Righeimer J. Allyson Stern Caroline C. Wheeler Helen Kohr Edward S. and Barbara L. Mills Gerald L. Ritholz Carol A. Stitzer Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Shirley Krsinich Vlasta A. “Vee” Minarich Mary Raffetto-Robins Norene W. Stucka Nora Winsberg Mary S. Kurz BettyAnn Mocek and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts, M.D., in Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Stuffers David G. Winter Larry Lapidus Adam R. Walker memory of Robert Kyts Emily J. Su Brien and Cathy Wloch Barbara K. Larsen Robert and Lois Moeller Mrs. Beth Wheeler Rome Peggy Sullivan Mrs. William Wunder Henrietta Leary Dr. Virginia Saft Mond James and Janet Rosenbaum Sherwin A. Swartz Dr. Debra L. Zahay Ernest L. Lester Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Dr. John Gregory Russo Mr. and Mrs. John C. Telander Daniel R. Zillmann Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Levy Mrs. Mario A. Munoz Joseph C. Russo Cheryl L. Thaxton Audrey A. Zywicki Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Nickels Dennis Ryan Lauritz K. Thomsen Carole F. Liebson Edward A. Nieminen Louise M. Ryssmann Karen Hletko Tiersky Doris C. Lorz Florence C. Norstrom Myron Tiersky Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric. Due to space limitations, listings include all bequests received from July 1, 2012 to the present. With deepest regards, Lyric commemorates those departed friends who have honored us with this most profound commitment. Anonymous (2) Regina C. Fain Sherry Kelley Joan Ruck Nopola Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Roy Fisher Mrs. Israel Kirsh Rex N. Olsen Shure Mr. and Mrs. A. Watson Armour III Darlene and Kenneth Fiske Russell V. Kohr Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Joan M. Skepnek James Ascareggi Lynette Flowers Nancy W. Knowles Mary G. Oppenheim Philip and David Slesur Family Elsa E. and Walter (Fred) Bandi Robert B. Fordham Dr. Bruce Korth Venrice R. Palmer Trust Vincent Barresi Elaine Frank Anne C. Lacovic Richard Pearlman Charitable Marilyn J. Snoble Velma Berry Thomas Frisch Marjorie Lanterman Trust Fund for Music Ms. Geraldine A. Spatz Rev. Dr. Warren Best Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg Sarrah Lapinsky Andre Pernet Jay Spaulding Edward F. Blettner Marital Trust In memory of Carl and Fern Walter and Millicent Leibfritz Seymour H. Persky Charitable Clarke and Adine Stayman Trusts Joanell C. Breen Gaensslen Ernest Lester Trust James L. Stein Donna Brunsma Dr. Martin L. Gecht and Francey Dr. Arthur G. Lipman Ira J. Peskind Howard A. Stotler Elizabeth Capilupo Gecht Rosalie Loeding Helen Petersen Gerald Sunko, M.D. Ellen Cole Charitable Remainder Carlyn E. Goettsch Arthur B. Logan Sidney L. Port Joseph Tiritilli Trust Shirley and Benjamin Gould Mary Longbrake Jack and Eleanor Portis Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Robert P. Cooke Endowment Fund Eva Lutovsky Lyn Redfield Annuity Trust Nelson D. Cornelius Allen Greenberger Marjorie A. Mayhall Joan L. Richards Phil and Paula Turner B. A. Coussement Lester and Betty Guttman Paul Mavros George T. Rhodes Dr. John E. Ultmann Marianne Deson-Herstein Trust, Elaine H. Hansen Hope Baldwin McCormick Trust Howard M. Robins Dr. Paul D. Urnes in memory of her parents Capt. Martin Hanson USN (Ret) Alfred L. McDougal Harry A. Root John H. Utley and Mary L. Utley Samuel and Sarah Deson Kenneth L. Harder Trust Bette S. McGee H. Cary Ross Trust Jane Warner Dick, in honor of John C. Hedley Renate Moser Margaret R. Sagers Sheila von Wiese-Mack Edison Dick Margot S. Hertz Mario A. Munoz Pierrete E. Sauvat Lydia Walkowiak Christopher D. Doemel James and Gail Hickey Doris A. Murdoch Thomas W. Scheuer James M. Wells Josephine S. Dryer Dagmar Hurbanek Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg S. Leder (Lee) Schiff Jane B. White Dr. Thomas R. Du Buque Deborah Jannotta Foundation Roy Schmaltz Paul and Virginia Wilcox Mrs. Ray Duncan Amyl W. Johnson, Jr. Dawn Clark Netsch Edwin J. and Margaret W. Edward T. Zasadil Bettie B. Dwinell Diana T. Jones Dr. Robert and Brigitte Nehaus Seeboeck Kelli Gardner Emery Joseph M. Kacena John and Maynette Neundorf Dr. Joseph Semrow William J. Evans Stuart Kane Mrs. Oliver Nickels Michael N. Shallow

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 61 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Corporate Partnerships

Lyric Opera gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by January 2, 2018. For more information about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312.827.5693 or [email protected]. ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR BENEFACTOR FRIEND $10,000 to $24,999 $5,000 to $7,499 $1,000 to $1,999 Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at Law Italian Village Restaurants Cartier Baird Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Concierge Unlimited International BNY Mellon Shure Incorporated Draper and Kramer, Incorporated Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation Kinder Morgan Foundation CNA BRAVO CIRCLE Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust Envestnet $3,500 to $4,999 Michuda Construction, Inc. Evans Food Group Corporate Suites Network Midwest Cargo Systems, Inc. First Midwest Bank Old Republic International Corporation MUFG Molex One Smooth Stone Morgan Stanley IMPRESARIO S&C Foundation OPERA America $2,000 to $3,499 Turks’ Greenhouses Quarles & Brady LLP American Agricultural Insurance Company Reed Smith LLP BNSF Foundation SUSTAINER Wintrust Community Banks Enterprise Holdings Foundation $500 to $999 Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC Law Office of Phillip Brigham LLC PREMIER BENEFACTOR MWM Consulting Children’s Law Group LLC $7,500 to $9,999 Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd. Carl Johnson’s Gallery in Galena Amsted Industries Foundation Network for Good Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation Rooney Rippie & Ratnaswamy LLP William Blair & Company Matching Gifts A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees’ gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Anonymous CNA Foundation ITW Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Allstate Giving Program ConAgra Johnson & Johnson The Retirement Research Foundation Aon Foundation Doing Good LLC Johnson Controls Foundation The Rhoades Foundation Bank of America Foundation Emerson Electric JPMorgan Chase Foundation The Warranty Group Baxter International Foundation General Mills Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur United Technologies Corporation Benevity Community Impact Fund Graham Holdings Foundation W. W. Grainger Inc. BMO Harris Bank Foundation Grenzebach, Glier, and Associates Kimberly Clark Foundation William Harris Investors Helen Brach Foundation HSBC-North America Morgan Stanley Caterpillar Foundation Inc. IBM Corporation Nuveen Investments Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ingredion Incorporated Pfizer Foundation For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual’s personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution. Special Thanks • American Airlines for its 36 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Boston Consulting Group and Dan Grossman, Partner and Managing Director, for the firm’s pro bono services to help Lyric to better understand our financial model, and to identify creative and promising paths to growth. • Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year. • Strategy& and Vinay Couto, Principal, as well as PwC and John Oleniczak, Midwest Region Assurance Managing Partner, and Paul Anderson, Retired Senior Advisor, for their firm’s pro bono consulting services on our organizational assessment. • Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider. Acknowledgements

The following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric Opera’s efforts: Generous Gifts Notable Gifts Vision Wine and Spirits Second City Calihan Catering Artists Frame Service Glo Rolighed Coco Pazzo Cochon Volant Insomnia Cookies HMS Media, Inc. Pearl Brasserie Beavers Donuts CH Distillery Lloyd’s Chicago Nespresso Modern Luxury CS Martha Nussbaum Pastoral

This performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 63 LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Annual Individual and Foundation Support

Lyric Opera deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by December 31, 2017.

ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above Anonymous (6) Julius Frankel Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun Seymour H. Persky Charitable Trust Ada and Whitney Addington Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Pritzker Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Trust Josef and Margot Lakonishok J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes Julie and Roger Baskes Brent and Katie Gledhill Estate of Ernest Lester Foundation James N. and Laurie V. Bay Ethel and William Gofen John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Candy and Gary Ridgway Marlys Beider Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Randy and Melvin Berlin The Grainger Foundation Malott Family Foundation Foundation Henry M. and Gilda R. Buchbinder Gramma Fisher Foundation of Mazza Foundation Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Carolyn S. Bucksbaum Marshalltown, Iowa Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund Dr. Scholl Foundation The John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Foundation Krehbiel, Jr. The Monument Trust (UK) Rose L. Shure Charitable Trust Marion A. Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Lisbeth Stiffel The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn The Harris Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Estate of Phil Turner Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Mrs. Herbert A. Vance Estate of Nelson D. Cornelius J. Thomas Hurvis Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. and Mrs. John V. Crowe The Edgar D. Jannotta Family Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Donna Van Eekeren Foundation The Crown Family The Anne and Burt Kaplan Fund Foundation The Wallace Foundation The Davee Foundation Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. NIB Foundation Roberta L. Washlow and Robert J. Marianne Deson-Herstein in memory O'Leary John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Washlow of Samuel and Sarah Deson The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Sheila and David Ormesher Helen and Sam Zell Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson Family Mr. and Mrs. William A. Osborn Ford Foundation Nancy W. Knowles Estate of Venrice R. Palmer PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (2) Illinois Arts Council Polk Bros. Foundation The Brinson Foundation Renée Fleming Foundation / Greg and Annie Jones/The Edgewater James Rigler Greg and Mamie Case International Foundation for Arts Funds Betsy and Andy Rosenfield The Chicago Community Trust and Culture Mrs. Loretta N. Julian Nancy S. Searle Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Robert B. Fordham Revocable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight III Lois B. Siegel Mrs. Myung Soon Chung Rhoda L. and Henry S. Frank Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Joan M. Skepnek The Cozad Family Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Charitable Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Howard Solomon and Sarah Mr. and Mrs. A. Steven Crown Trust Family Foundation Billinghurst Solomon Nancy Dehmlow Sue and Melvin Gray Susan M. Miller Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Eisen Family Foundation Eric and Deb Hirschfield Linda K. and Dennis M. Myers Carl and Marilynn Thoma Estate of Regina C. Fain Howard Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oberlander GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous (5) Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Fama Mr. and Mrs. Jay Krehbiel Collin and Lili Roche Paul and Mary Anderson The Ferguson-Yntema Family Frederic S. Lane Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Robin Angly Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lenny James and Erica Sandner Mr. and Mrs. Andreas A. Antoniou Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr. Estate of Arthur Lipman Mr. and Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. Vance T. Antoniou Maurice J. and Patricia Frank Lucas Family Foundation Mrs. Robert E. Sargent The Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Philip G. Lumpkin The Schroeder Foundation Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Friedmann Jim and Kay Mabie Estate of Dr. Edwin J. Seeboeck C. Bekerman, M.D. Don and Abby Funk Jeanne Randall Malkin Family Foundation Segal Family Foundation Heidi Heutel Bohn The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation Shari Mayes Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Mark Bowen Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Judith W. McCue and Charles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. The Butler Family Foundation Ruth Ann M. Gillis and Howard M. McCue III Richard W. Shepro and Amy and Paul Carbone Michael J. McGuinnis Robert and Evelyn McCullen Lindsay E. Roberts David and Orit Carpenter Joseph and Madeleine Glossberg Blythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva Cellmer/Neal Foundation Fund Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna Morris Silverman and Lori Ann Komisar Joyce E. Chelberg Maria C. Green and Oswald G. Lewis Frank B. Modruson and Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg Hal Coon Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Gross Lynne C. Shigley Penelope and Robert Steiner Crain-Maling Foundation The Harris Family Foundation Allan and Elaine Muchin Joseph and Pam Szokol Sir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Mary Ellen Hennessy Estate of Herbert and Brigitte Neuhaus Thierer Family Foundation Rolandi Davis Martha A. Hesse Kenneth R. Norgan Robert L. Turner Mr. and Mrs. James M. Denny Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/ Patricia A. Kenney and Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Ann M. Drake Patricia Hyde Gregory J. O’Leary Walter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin Regina Janes Matt and Carrie Parr Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Weinberg Drs. George and Sally Dunea Mr. and Mrs. George E. Johnson Ingrid Peters Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Donald and Anne Edwards Joseph M. Kacena Endowed Fund J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Jane B. White Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation/ Julian Family Foundation Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood Prince Judy Guitelman & ALAS Wings Estate of Stuart Kane John Raitt Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Kennedy The C. G. Pinnell Family

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SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous (6) Shawn M. Donnelley and Lannan Foundation The Rooney Family Mr. and Mrs. James S. Aagaard Christopher M. Kelly Lavin Family Foundation Sheli and Burt Rosenberg Ken and Amy Aldridge Fred L. Drucker and Andrew O. and Daria M. Lewicky Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz John and Ann Amboian Hon. Rhoda Sweeney Drucker Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elden Malott Family Foundation Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. Erika E. Erich Daniel T. Manoogian Susan and David Ruder Juliette F. Bacon Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marjan Richard O. Ryan E. M. Bakwin Michael and Sally Feder Robert C. Marks Rodd M. Schreiber and Susan Hassan Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Barden Joan and Robert Feitler Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Alan Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Estate of Dr. W. Fessenden Jr. Sherry McFall and Kenneth Porrello Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Judith Barnard and Michael Fain Sonja and Conrad Fischer Erma S. Medgyesy Arch W. Shaw Foundation Robert S. Bartolone Elaine Frank Terry J. Medhurst Mary Beth Shea Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beata Mary Patricia Gannon Dawn G. Meiners The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Ross and Patricia D. Bender Susan J. Garner Jon and Lois Mills Leslie Bertholdt Judy and Bill Goldberg Martha A. Mills The Shubert Foundation Estate of Dr. Warren Best David and Elizabeth Graham Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. John R. Siragusa Patrick J. Bitterman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor James A. Staples Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stark Starshak Winzenburg & Co. “That unique moment in an opera when I am brought to tears by the beauty of the music and singing.” Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher -Ron B. Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Ellen and Jim Stirling Mr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Blau Mrs. Mary Winton Green Chris and Eileen Murphy Jennifer L. Stone Marcus Boggs Mr. and Mrs. Dan Grossman Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stonebraker Mr. and Mrs. John Jay Borland Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hank Music Performance Trust Fund and Mary Stowell Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr. Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan Film Funds Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thomas Betty Bradshaw The Irving Harris Foundation Phyllis Neiman Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Christine and Paul Branstad Family James Huntington Foundation David J. and Dolores D. Nelson Virginia Tobiason Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Jean McLaren and John Nitschke Mr. and Mrs. James M. Trapp Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Fredric G. and Mary Novy Foundation Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Buehler Family Foundation Mrs. John C. Hedley Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. and Mrs. Henry Underwood Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Helen Brach Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James J. O’Connor Elizabeth Upjohn Mason Mr. and Mrs. Duane L. Burnham Dr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. Hibbard Margo and Michael Oberman and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Nice Marie Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Family Dan and Patty Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cole Miriam U. Hoover Marian Phelps Pawlick Harriet Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner The Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Ann and Reed Coleman Michael Welsh and Linda Brummer Francie Comer Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Hull Foundation Kim and Miles D. White Tamara Conway Capt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Mrs. Vernon J. Pellouchoud Lawrence O. Corry Memorial Fund Harvey R. and Madeleine P. Plonsker Dr. David H. Whitney and Winnie and Bob Crawford Laurie and Michael Jaffe Maya Polsky Dr. Juliana Chyu Susan E. Cremin Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jentes Rosy and Jose Luis Prado Mrs. John A. Wing Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Mr. George L. Jewell Andra and Irwin Press William Wolf and Meredith Bluhm-Wolf Lauridsen Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jorndt Elizabeth Ann Price Paul Wood and The Honorable Dr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Mike and Lindy Keiser Prince Charitable Trusts Corinne Wood Anne Megan Davis Stephen Kohl and Mark Tilton Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood II M. Dillon Stephen A. Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Reilly Jr Debbie K. Wright Edward and Joyce McFarland Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Kozloff The Rhoades Foundation James and Michele Young Dlugopolski Ms. Linda Kutt Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Anne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca Albert and Rita Lacher Mary F. Robins Estate of Audrey A. Zywicki PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999 Anonymous (3) Sondra Berman Epstein Martin and Patricia Koldyke Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse Kelley and Susan Anderson Ms. Lorna Ferguson The Dolores Kohl Education Norman Sackar Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Robert F. Finke Foundation - Morris & Dolores Raymond and Inez Saunders Ms. Ronelle D. Ashby Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Geldermann Kohl Kaplan Fund George and Terry Rose Saunders Mark and Judy Bednar Lloyd Gerlach Mr. Mark L. Koten George and Joan Segal Meta S. & Ronald Berger Family Virginia and Gary Gerst Eldon and Patricia Kreider Mary and Stanley Seidler Foundation George and Maureen Gilmore MaryBeth Kretz and Robert Baum Mary Lynne Shafer and Rebecca & Jonathan Berger Bruce A. Gober, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lans Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Siegel Mr. and Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Bill and Judy Goldberg Bernard and Averill Leviton Ilene Simmons Lieselotte N. Betterman Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Goldblatt Julius Lewis Siragusa Family Foundation Norman and Virginia Bobins/The Helyn D. Goldenberg Ms. Michelle McCarthy Patricia Arrington Smythe Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James A. McClung Del Snow Phyllis H. Brissenden Phillip and Norma Gordon Florence D. McMillan Doris F. Sternberg Winston and Lally Brown Chester A. Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Milliken Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Struthers Joy Buddig Dr. Doris Graber Julian and Sheila Oettinger Angela Tenta, M.D. Audre Carlin Joan M. Hall Karen and Tom Phillips O. Thomas Thomas Mrs. Warren M. Choos Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Potempa Dr. David Thurn Lawrence Christensen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Irene D. Pritzker Howard and Paula Trienens Thomas A. Clancy and Dana I. Green David Drew and Marcie Hemmelstein John and Betsey Puth Foundation Lynd W. Corley Midge and Frank Heurich Dr. Sondra C. Rabin Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon Rosemary and John Croghan Mrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr. James T. and Karen C. Reid Christian Vinyard Mr. and Mrs. J. William Cuncannan James and Mary Houston The Retirement Research Foundation Marilee and Richard Wehman Mr. and Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen Mr. Richard M. Jaffee Daryl and James Riley Dr. and Mrs. Peter Willson Decyk Charitable Foundation Katie Hazelwood and Todd Kaplan J. Timothy Ritchie Kathleen Arthur and Stephen Wood Mrs. Sheila Dulin Nancy Rita Kaz Rocco and Cheryl Romano Donna and Phillip Zarcone John Edelman and Suzanne Krohn Kate T. Kestnbaum Edgar Rose Richard B. Egen Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King J. Kenneth and Susan T. Rosko

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BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499 Anonymous (6) Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Leslie Fund, Inc. Ellen M. Salter Dr. Michael Angell John F. Gilmore Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Lewis Dr. Janet Gilboy and Mr. John Schmidt Peter and Lucy Ascoli Family Fund Judy and Bill Goldberg Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis Family Sherie Coren Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Basler Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mrs. Paul Lieberman Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust David Q. Bell and Mary A. Bell Mr. and Mrs. David L. Grumman Thomas J. McCormick Pam and Russ Strobel Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Bent Sandra L. Grung Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCreary Bolton Sullivan Fund Dr. Debra Zahay Blatz James and Brenda Grusecki Lois Melvoin Andrea and Mark Taylor Wiley and Jo Caldwell Glen and Claire Hackmann Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Milkint Genevieve Thiers and Daniel Ratner Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Calvin The Blanny A. Hagenah Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Newton N. Minow L. Kristofer Thomsen Jane B. and John C. Colman Mrs. John M. Hartigan Mr. and Mrs. Mead Montgomery Lawrence E. Timmins Trust Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Christianson Mr. Erik Jaeger and Mr. Andreas Woytowitz Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore Michael Tobin, M.D. Marsha Cruzan Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul Jarvis Charles and Ellen Mulaney Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Toft Mr. and Mrs. Gerry V. Curciarello Howard E. Jessen Ms. Amélie Négrier-Oyarzabal Marianne Tralewski The Dancing Skies Foundation Drs. Perry and Elena Kamel Renate P. Norum Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Thomas Doran Tyrus L. Kaufman Mrs. Richard C. Oughton Scott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. Emerick Estelle Edlis Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kearney Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson David and Linda Wesselink Cherelynn A. Elliott The Kip Kelley Family Norman and Lorraine Perman Estate of Paul and Virginia Wilcox Jim and Pati Ericson Jean Klingenstein Elizabeth Anne Peters Claudia Winkler James and Deborah Fellowes Dr. Katherine Knight Merle Reskin David S. Fox Victoria Mitchell Kohn Joseph Rochetto Anthony Freud and Colin Ure Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lennard Chatka and Anthony Ruggiero BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999 Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huizenga Mary Lou and Jack Miller Dr. S. P. Shah Dr. and Mrs. Herand Abcarian Dr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus John H. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shea Allison Alexander Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Zehava L. Noah Bill and Harlan Shropshire Eric A. Anderson Joy Jester Mickey Norton Craig Sirles Mychal P. Angelos Ronald B. Johnson Drs. Funmi and Sola Olopade Joan M. Solbeck Susann Ball Douglas M. Karlen Jonathan F. Orser Mary Soleiman Astrid K. Birke Mr. and Mrs. John A. Karoly Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ottley Glenn and Ardath Solsrud Dr. Gregory L. Boshart and Gerald and Judith Kaufman Dr. Pat and Lara Pappas Mrs. John Stanek Dr. William R. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. Klemt Barbara and Jerry Pearlman Mrs. Karl H. Stein Danolda (Dea) Brennan J. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr. Drs. Sarunas and Jolanta Peckus MinSook Suh Mr. Donald Carruthers Thomas A. Kmetko Jim and Polly Pierce Ms. Carla M. Thorpe B. A. Coussement John and Mary Kohlmeier Jean Perkins and Leland Hutchinson Phil and Paula Turner Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Geoffrey Bauer and Anna Lam Karen and Richard Pigott Elizabeth K. Twede Jon W. DeMoss Mr. Craig Lancaster and Dr. Joe Piszczor Lori L. and John R. Twombly Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Denison Ms. Charlene T. Handler Joel and Vivianne Pokorny David J. Varnerin Deane Ellis Phyllis W. Shafron and Ethan Lathan Nathaniel W. Pusey Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Amanda Fox Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin Dr. Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn Ramirez Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. and Mrs. James V. Franch The Barbara and Frank Lieber Family Dr. and Mrs. Don Randel Louis Weber Dr. and Mrs. James L. Franklin Charitable Trust Edward and Leah Reicin Hilary and Barry Weinstein Foundation Peter G. O. Freund Pamela Forbes Lieberman Estate of George T. Rhodes Howard S. White James R. Grimes Marilyn and Myron Maurer Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Grob David E. McNeel Dr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Mr. Otis Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Michael Woolever Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr. Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Curt G. Schmitt Owen and Linda Youngman Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Melchor Julie Schwertfeger and Alexander Zajczenko Dr. Robert G. Zadylak and Mr. and Mrs. Milan Hornik Ms. Britt M. Miller Thomas and Judy Scorza James C. Kemmerer IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499 Anonymous (7) James W. Chamberlain Gordon and Nancy Goodman Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Ginny Alberts-Johnson and Charles B. Preacher Foundation Annemarie H. Gramm Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Lance Johnson Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Greene Family Foundation Neil and Diana King Mrs. Robert W. Allen Jason Dantico Richard Greenman Klaff Family Foundation Mrs. John H. Andersen Mr. John D’Asto Solomon Gutstein Dr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko Steven Ashby Robert O. Delaney Dr. Mona J. Hagyard Emil J. and Marie D. Kochton Foundation Mr. Wayne Baden Mr. and Mrs. Roger Deromedi Mari L. Harrer Mr. John Kouns Ronald and Donna Barlow Mr. and Mrs. John DeWolf Mr. Daggett Harvey Jr and Mrs. Yvonne Dr. and Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Bastian Voice Institute Lyn Dickey Yamashita Marc Lacher Ron and Queta Bauer Ms. Kathleen DiIorio James Heim Peter N. Lagges, Jr. Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Bernard J. and Sally Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hodges Dr. M. S.W. Lee Alvin R. Beatty Mr. and Mrs. Eben Dorros Hoellen Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Leopold Dee Beaubien Richard and Ingrid Dubberke Sandra Hoffman Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Diane and Michael Beemer Drs. Walter Dziki and Emily Miao Concordia Louise Hoffmann Dr. and Mrs. Philip R. 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Menegaz and R. D. Bock Richard Boyum and Louie Chua Mrs. Norman Gates Mr. Jason Kalajainen Pamela G. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Mrs. Myrna Kaplan Mrs. Pamela E. Miles Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Brown Generations Fund Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Karger Jr. Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie Bruyninckx Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mary Ann Karris Mr. and Mrs. William A. Miller Christopher Carlo and Robert Chaney Debbie Gillaspie and Fred Sturm Judith L. Kaufman Robert and Lois Moeller Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Cavallino Alfred G. Goldstein Mrs. Helen Kedo Steven Montner and Scott Brown

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Wheeler Mark Ouweleen and Sarah Harding Megan Roudebush Mr. Tom Startek Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Wick Gerald L. Padbury Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Rubash Carol D. Stein and James Sterling F. C. Winters Luis A. Pagan-Carlo, M.D. Susan B. Rubnitz Oscar Tatosian, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Witkowski Kevin Patti Robert Russell Gilbert Terlicher Mr. and Mrs. Brien Wloch Laurie and Michael Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sarnoff Mrs. Vernon B. Thomas, Jr. Chip and Jean Wood Karen Petitte Robert and Mary Ann Savard Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Priscilla T. Yu Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schaeffer The Trillium Foundation Susan Zick FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999 Anonymous (12) Ms. Sheila Burke Elizabeth W. Fischer James Heger Melvin R. Loeb A & T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund Susan Burkhardt Roy Fisher and Charles Chris Shaw Sheila Ann Hegy Candace B. Broecker Ms. Katherine A. Abelson George J. Burrows James and Jane Fitzgerald Dr. Allen W. Heinemann and Knox and Gabrielle Long Louise Abrahams Joseph A. Caprini, M.D. William A. Fleig Dr. William Borden Sherry and Mel Lopata Richard Abram and Paul Chandler Irma Caprioli Nona C. Flores Joseph Heiney Craig and Jane Love Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. Abrams Fairbank and Lynne Carpenter Margaret Byrne, Attorney Robert and Janet Helman Carlotta and Ronald Lucchesi Ann Acker Stephen H. and Virginia McM. Carr Paul Fong Dr. and Mrs. Leo M. Henikoff Wayne R. Lueders Duffie A. Adelson Patrick V. Casali Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Carrie and Harry Hightman Kurtice Luther Susan S. Adler Drs. James and Stephanie Cavanaugh Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forsythe Nora Jaskowiak and Matthew Hinerfeld Ms. Bonghee Ma Judith A. Akers Barry and Marcia Cesafsky Adrian Foster Mrs. J. Dillon Hoey Charlene and Gary MacDougal Dr. and Mrs. Todd D. Alexander Robert Cieslak Eloise C. Foster Bill and Louanne Holland Daniel Carroll Madden and Ms. Joanne B. Alter Heinke K. Clark Anne and Willard Fraumann Cynthia and Ron Holmberg Tuny Mokrauer Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. 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Beck Claretta Meier Seth Beckman Gary Crosby Gay L. Girolami Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Helen Melchior Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Karen and John Crotty Cai Glushak and Martin DiCrisci Christine Kassa-Skaredoff Merlin and Gladys Rostad Arts Fund John C. Benitez Robert Curley Barbara and Norman Gold Dr. and Mrs. Robert Katz Rachel and Jason Mersey Roy C. Bergstrom Barbara Flynn Currie Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Goldin Larry M. Keer, M.D. Jim and Ginger Meyer Jacquie Berlin Timothy and Cheryl Dahlstrand Robert and Marcia Goltermann Sarah and Kip Kelley II Dominion and Company, Inc. Lois M. Berman James and Marie Damion Jerry Goodman Anne and John Kern Michuda Construction, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Turney Berry Rathin Datta Jaimy Gordon and Peter Blickle Marian Kinney Ms. Barbara Mikolajczyk Jerry and Kathy Biederman Patty Litton Delony Ms. Jill Gordon Linda Kinzelberg Rev. Dr. Mary L. Milano Margaret C. Bisberg and Ms. Sarah Demet Alan Salpeter and Shelley Gorson Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Barry and Sharon Millman Richard VanMetre Dorothy Deppen Motoko Goto Mr. Stephen Kitchen Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Mills Cynthia L. Bixel Rosanne Diamond David Gould Esther G. Klatz Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Milnarik M. J. Black and Mr. Clancy Dr. Elton Dixon Dr. Steven A. Gould Frank and Alice Kleinman Bette Mitchell Judy Stanley Bland Jill S. Dodds Dr. Ruth Grant and Janice Klich Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mize Elaine and Harold Blatt Michael L. Dollard Dr. Howard Schwartz Mary Klyasheff Dr. Virginia Mond Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Dr. and Mrs. Peter E. Doris Anthony Green Emily and Christopher Knight William Mondi Ann Blickensderfer Catherine and Patrick Dowd Nancy and Jonathan Green Lionel and Jackie Knight Charles Moore Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and David and Deborah Dranove Rochelle and Michael Greenfield Richard and Carol Knop Lloyd and Donna Morgan Berle Blitstein Tom Draski Tim and Joyce Greening Edward and Adrienne Kolb Ms. Helen H. Morrison E. M. Bluhm Ms. Susan A. 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Needles Nicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirr Ms. Jan Elfline Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr. Carol and Jerome Lamet David and Lynne Nellemann Carline Bronk Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ellis Mary E. Hallman Elisabeth M. Landes Jeffrey Nichols Jerry and Gisela Brosnan Peter Emery Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock Mrs. Harold E. Leichenko Nancy A. Nichols Ms. Kathryn Y. Brown Dr. and Mrs. James O. Ertle Michael G. Hansen and Bonnie and Ed Leracz John Nigh Giovanna and Joseph Breu Dr. Thelma M. Evans Nancy E. Randa Mrs. Nancy Levi Carol M. Nigro Alice C. Brunner Farley Family Charles Hanusin Laurence and Mary Levine Patricia A. Noska Angelo Buscaglia, Jr. Mr. Michael Farmer Joan W. Harris Anne and Craig Linn Daniel S. Novak and Dean Ricker Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Penny Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hartigan Caroline P. Lippert Dr. W. E. Null Howard and Moira Buhse Howard and Charlotte Fink Betty Ann Hauser William and Diane Lloyd Penny J. Obenshain Dr. Mary Louise H. 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Siegel Mr. Theodore Tetzlaff Manfred Wendt Marilyn Pearson Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Nancy Silberman Linda and Ronald Thisted Patricia and William H. Wheeler Mrs. Mona L. Penner Mrs. Dolores E. Ruetz Linda Simon Dr. Andrew J. Thomas James L. Wilson Viktoras Petroliunas Louise M. Ryssmann Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Sims Karen J. Tjarksen Mrs. John White Mrs. Marlene Phillips Eugene W. Rzym Paul and Ann Singer Diane Tkach and James Freundt Dr. Wendall W. Wilson Ruth A. Phillips David Sachs Margles Singleton and Clay Young Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Rabbi Larry and JoAnne Winer Mr. and Mrs. Les Pinsof Dr. and Mrs. Hans Sachse Thomas Sinkovic Joanne Tremulis Kathryn B. Winter John Podjasek Carol S. Sadow Dr. Ross Slotten Mr. James W. Tucker Charles B. Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Robert Polenzani Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Safford Barbara Smith and Timothy Burroughs Vicky Tusken Ann S. Wolff William V. Porter John Sagos Suzanne L. Hoffman and Dale Smith Judith Tuszynski Ted and Peggy Wolff Charlene Posner Sharon Salveter and Stephan Meyer Louise K. Smith Professor Harald and Christopher and Julie Wood Dorothy M. Press Mr. Edward Sanderson Melissa and Chuck Smith Mrs. Christine Uhlig D.P. Wood and R.L. Sufit Jennifer N. Pritzker Patricia Schaefer Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith Manuel S. Valderrama Marsha and David Woodhouse Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker Mary T. Schafer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Smith Dr. Thuong Van Ha Mark Woodworth and Randi Marcia Purze Robert P. Schaible Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smolen Frances and Peter Vandervoort Ravitts Woodworth Mr. David Quell Marie-Claude Schauer Robert A. Sniegowski Rosalba Villanueva Mark Zajackowski William H. Redfield David Schiffman Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Snopko Dr. Annabelle Volgman Michael and Judy Zeddies Roseanne Rega Edgar Schiller Dr. and Mrs. R. John Solaro John and Kathleen Vondran Barbara Zeleny Sandra and Ken Reid Nancy Schmitt The Sondheimer Family Charitable Mr. Malcolm V. Vye Marianne and Ted Zelewsky Alicia and Myron Resnick Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Schuler Foundation Suzanne Wagner David and Suzanne Zesmer Joan L. Richards Jim and Joan Sears Ms. Julie Staley Walter and Caroline Sueske Richard E. Ziegler Evelyn Richer Segal Family Foundation Joyce L. Steffel Charitable Trust Jerry and Carole Ringer Paul R. Seidlitz Carol Stein and Doris Ashkin April Ware and Jess Forrest William and Cheryl Roberts Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Semerad Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stein Dr. Richard Warnecke Jared C. Robins John and Floria Serpico Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoll Metro Pedix SC SUSTAINER · $500 to $999 Anonymous (27) Mrs. Keki Bhote Ms. Anne M. Chien Adrienne Eckerling Dale and David Ginsburg Mr. and Mrs. Richard Aaron Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bible Ms. Angela Cici James W. Edmondson Dr. Howard P. Girard Julia and Charlotte Abarbanell Donald H. 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Evans Dr. Robert Golub Judith L. Allen D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Dr. Joseph P. Cousins Janet Eyler and Edwin Walker Mary C. Goodman Mrs. Ronald L. Allen Fran Bly and Charles Hample James Cox Ms. Patti Eylar Amy and Michael Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Allie Ms. Virginia Boehme Anatole Crane Ms. Elizabeth M. Fadell Mr. Andrew Gore Peri M. Altan Erminio Bonacci Nancy Crawford Marion and Burt Fainman Drs. Margaret and Richard Gore Evelyn Alter Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Robert C. Cronin Dr. Robert A. Fajardo Anne H. Gorham Mr. Zakwan Alzein Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond, Sr. Pamela Crutchfield Marilyn Faklis Ruiz Phillip and Suzanne Gossett Ms. Emilyjane Andaya Mr. Donald W. Bonneau Anna Beth Culver Mrs. Fran Faller Birgit Gottelt Ken and Mary Andersen Sarah J. Gottermeyer Carol L. Anderson “We love being backstage and on stage among all the singers -- Mr. and Mrs. Delmon Grapes Judith C. Anderson Mr. W. L. Griffith Ms. Louise E. Anderson music is our passion; opera and singing in particular.” Robert Grist Nancy E. Anderson -Miriam S. Charles R. Grode Elizabeth Newkirk and Dan Groteke and Pat Taplick Christa Andrepont Laurence and Patricia Booth Czarkowski Family Mr. David Fannin D. Grynspan and S. Stupp Dr. Michael Angell Jordan Bouchard Greg Davis John and Joann Faulhaber Mrs. Kathleen Grzybek William Ankenbrandt Aldridge and Marie Bousfield Paul B. Dekker Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Feldman, M.D. John Gustaitis Stephen M. and Barbara J. Arnold Sandra Box Tania Del Rio Steven E. Feldman Beth Hadley Drs. Andrew and Iris Aronson Mary and Carl Boyer Pablo Denes Mr. Austin Feller Mr. Allen Hager Ms. Ardell Arthur Dr. and Mrs. Boone Brackett Patricia K. Denman Dr. Eva D. Ferguson Dr. and Mrs. Norm A. Hagman Susan and Bob Arthur Michael Bradie Mr. and Mrs. John Deppong, Jr. Susan Fisher-Yellen Mr. and Mrs. Cameel Halim Mr. Derek Ashbaugh Robert Bradner Mrs. Marcia Devlin Marilyn E. Fites Janice H. Halpern Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Ms. Vivian Brandt Dr. Lawrence Devoe Ms. Joanne H. Fitzgerald Barbara MacDowall and Margaret Atherton Joan and Tom Broderick William Diaz and Theresa Gross-Diaz Ms. Karen E. Flanagan Robert Hanlon Ms. Shirley M. Ballak Mr. Gordon Brodfuehrer Ms. Wendy DiBendedetto Mrs. Harold M. Flanzer Mr. Randall Hanssen Mr. Stan Balog Leona and Daniel Bronstein Mr. John D. DiBuono Archibald E. Fletcher John and Sharon Hanusin H. Barefield Dr. Annie Brown Robert and Anne Diffendal Marvin Fletcher Mr. Gregory J. Harms Marilyn R. Barmash Steven Borkan and Lauren Brown Dr. Gary Dillehay Lafayette J. Ford Dr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Harris Barbara J. Barnes Todd Brueshoff Mr. and Mrs. William S. Dillon Richard W. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Harris David Baron and Susan Kay Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. 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Morris Thomas and Barbara Rosenwein Anne Taft Bernard H. and Edith A. Holst Susan Laing Steven W. Morris Jason Rosnick Bradley L. and Simone Himbeault Joel Horowitz John T. Lansing John A. Morrison Mrs. Donald I. Roth Taylor William Hosken Mr. Max Lanz Larry Morrison Heidi Stevenson Rothenberg, M.D. Susan C Taylor Larry and Ann Hossack Mrs. Frederick Larsen Beverly Mortensen Zhaosong Ruan Ms. Michele M. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larsen Mr. and Mrs. Karlos Moser Andrew Ruggles Sheila J. Thuesdee William and Sarah Hufford Bonnie B. and Robert M. Larsen Dr. Arthur Moswin Alex Ruiz Myron and Karen Hletko Tiersky Ms. Michelle Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Harold Laughlin Helga E. Muench Drs. Cynthia and Gary Ruoff Eleanor W. Tippens G. Todd Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Lawrence Zane F. Muhl Melanie and Joseph Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tittle Anita A. Hutchinson Marsha Lazar Mary Anne Lynskey Mary Ann Sadilek F. 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Stern Dr. Antoinette Zell and Amy Kontrick and Mark Mycyk Mary C. Meyer John Reppy Scott Stoeffler and Jill Krieg Kenneth R. Walter Mr. Ernest Kosciuk Barb and Bob Meyer Edward Rhyne Jr. Mrs. James H. Stoner Robert Zentner Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kracum Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Richert Joanne Storm Dorene Zerfas Stephen Kraft David E. Miller Ashley Richter Timothy J.S. Larisa Zhizhin Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Kretchmer Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Miller Dr. Patricia C. Rieger Mr. John Strasswimmer Dr. and Mrs. Eric Zickgraf Harold Kroeger Gerry M. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Rinkenberger Gary L. Strawn Camille J. Zientek Lyric is very grateful to the thousands of donors who give gifts of less than $500 to our annual campaign. Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the names of these donors, but their generosity is sincerely appreciated.

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 69 LYRIC’S NEW CHAMPAGNE BAR

Champagne and an evening at Lyric make the perfect pairing! Now you can choose from a variety of delicious champagnes before any Lyric show or at intermission. Enjoy a glass or split of your favorite bubbly, or treat yourself to a delicious mimosa or Bellini. Located across from the grand staircase in the Rice Grand Foyer on the Main Floor. LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO Facilities and Services

Patrons with Disabilities: from the lobby and other parts of the The Lyric Opera House is public, non-performance spaces in the accessible to persons with house, as well as the house itself, but not physical disabilities, with during the performance. elevator service to all floors except the Opera Club. The Ardis Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right Krainik Theatre contains seating to inspect any large bags or packages that is accessible to persons in and insist that all large backpacks, bags, wheelchairs, as well as seats with luggage, etc. be stored at coat check. removable armrests. The Lyric Welcome to the Lyric Opera House! Here Opera House has automatic door-openers are a few guidelines designed to ensure all on exterior doors, and accessible drinking of our audience members have the best fountains and public telephones. A TTY experience possible. phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only. • Please remain silent during the performance. Restroom facilities for female patrons with • As a gesture of respect for other disabilities are located on all levels except audience members and the the Opera Club. For male patrons, these performing artists, please remain facilities are located on all levels except the seated until intermission or the end Opera Club and the sixth floor. of the show. If you need to leave the auditorium, you may not be Assistive listening devices for persons Outside food and beverages may not be readmitted while the performance is desiring amplification are available at no brought into the Lyric Opera House. in progress. cost at the Main Floor coat check. A valid Refreshments may be purchased onsite and • Program and artists are subject to driver’s license or state identification is limited items may be brought in with you change without notice. required as a security deposit. to the performance. • Please turn off or silence all electronic and personal devices and refrain Large print and Braille programs may be Thank you again for joining us at Lyric from using any device with a glowing available at the Main Floor coat check. Opera of Chicago! screen at any time during the performance. Audio description, touch tours, and American Sign Language interpretation is Your understanding and cooperation available for select performances; please see are appreciated. Please let a member of www.lyricopera.org/accessibilty for dates Lyric’s house staff know if you have any and details. questions. Lost and Found: Please call 312.827.5768 for lost items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days.

Other important policies: Photography and/or audio and video recording of any kind are prohibited during the performance. You are encouraged to take photographs and share your experience on social media All photos by Jaclyn Simpson.

Front of House Managers: Sheila Matthews, Chuck Tucker Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John Thor Sandquist and Joseph Dunn Food & Beverage Manager: Geri LaGiglio Restaurant Manager: David Adelsperger Box Office Manager: Gregg Brody Usher Supervisors: Lena Reynolds-Sneed, Nate Tuttle

February 17 - March 16, 2018 | 71 LEAD SPONSOR: PRODUCTION SPONSORS Tom Deering CONDUCTOR APRIL 27 –MAY 20 COMING WINNING PRODUCTION OLIVIER AWARD- PREMIERE OFTHE NORTH AMERICAN FOUNDATION THE NEGAUNEE Timothy Sheader DIRECTOR DONOR ANONYMOUS

MR. J. CHRISTOPHER REYES AND Drew McOnie CHOREOGRAPHER MRS.

Music byAndrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics byTim Rice ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER&TIMRICE LYRICOPERA.ORG/JCS In Association withTheReally Useful Group Limited JESUS CHRISTSUPERSTAR Production byTheRegent's Park Theatre London ON SALE NOW! | 312827 5600

Photo: David Jensen/Regent's Park Open Air Theatre What would you give for eternal youth?

FAUST GOUNOD  MARCH  Faust sells his soul to the devil in this innovative new production from renowned visual artist John Frame.

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Benjamin Bernheim Ailyn Pérez Ana María Martínez Christian Van Horn FAUST MARGUERITE MARGUERITE MÉPHISTOPHÉLÈS     

Performed in French with projected English translations  Faust is a coproduction of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Portland Opera.

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LIZ HENRY M. AND GILDA R. STEFAN EDLIS AND ETHEL AND HARRIS FAMILY STIFFEL BUCHBINDER GAEL NEESON WILLIAM GOFEN FOUNDATION