FROM THE GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends, Welcome to the grand opening of our 2012/13 Season. We continue the tradition of presenting an artistically varied program with Puccini, Mozart and Wagner, and the U.S. premiere of our co-commissioned opera by James MacMillan, Clemency. We welcome back some old friends, singers, directors and designers to our stage and offer many exciting artistic debuts. BLO is one of the very few professional opera companies in the U.S. offering a season of entirely new productions, thanks to our extraordinary artistic team. By not importing shows, or renting sets and scenery from elsewhere, we offer countless additional employment opportunities in our community. We are proud to showcase many gifted BLO Emerging Artists again this season, as well as the enormously talented professional musicians and singers in our orchestra and chorus. Our dedicated team also includes the many professionals behind the stage and front of house. We enter the fall with one of Puccini’s greatest tragedies, Madama Butterfly. The fate of the young geisha girl never fails to move us to tears, no matter how often we have seen it, even for us producers who have worked with the opera more times then we can remember. Our stage director Lillian Groag, designer John Conklin, Music Director David Angus and the creative team have spent months dissecting the story and analyzing and framing the two colliding worlds and cultures. Our orchestra and chorus will be under the able baton of Maestro Andrew Bisantz. I look forward to hearing your feedback during the intermissions. BLO is your company! Some of you may know that your ticket covers a little less than a third of our annual budget and your support is crucial. BLO’s activities extend far beyond what you see on stage. In addition to our operas, we produce many community events such as our annual free outdoor summer concert with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, lectures and events at the Boston Public Library, our Open House at the Shubert Theatre with competitions, other performances and events free to the public. We produce lectures and preview events at the MFA, and offer school and vacation programs, including several partnerships with Wheelock Family Theatre, and many other programs that benefit the community, colleges, families and patrons of all ages. The demand for opera is high and, with your continued help, we are pleased to be the foremost provider of opera in the Boston community. I hope that you find much to enjoy this season!
Esther Nelson General & Artistic Director
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BOSTON LYRIC OPERA BOARD Welcome to Boston Lyric Opera’s 2012/2013 Season, opening with Madama Butterfly. We have an amazing season in store celebrating opera favorites and U.S. premieres, soaring voices and fresh, stimulating new productions. From this all-new Butterfly we move to a new production of Così Fan Tutte, directed by Sir Thomas Allen, who will also sing the role of Don Alfonso, and followed by the first Wagner staged by BLO in 20 years: The Flying Dutchman. I also extend an invitation to join us at Artists for Humanity in February for BLO’s Opera Annex: the American premiere of James MacMillan’s Clemency, a BLO co-commission with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Scottish Opera and the Britten Sinfonia. Finally, please help me welcome the 2012/2013 Emerging Artists: baritone David McFerrin, mezzo soprano Nicole Rodin, tenor Alan Schneider, and soprano Michelle Trainor. Thank you for joining us today and for your support of BLO. Our audience truly does make opera happen. Steven P. Akin Chairman, Board of Directors CHAIR
Steven P. Akin VICE-CHAIR
Frank Wisneski TREASURER
CLERK
Frank Wisneski
GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
TBA
Esther Nelson
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steven P. Akin Jane Akin David B. Arnold, Jr. Linda Cabot Black Miguel de Bragança Wayne Davis JoAnne Walton Dickinson, Esq. Alan Roy Dynner Susan D. Eastman Kenneth L. Freed Thomas D. Gill, Jr. Barbara Winter Glauber
Anneliese M. Henderson Mimi Hewlett Horace H. Irvine II Susan W. Jacobs Maria J. Krokidas Stephen T. Kunian Lois A. Lampson Abigail B. Mason Richard Olney III A. Neil Pappalardo E. Lee Perry William Pounds
BOARD OF OVERSEERS
CHAIR
VICE-CHAIR
Willa Bodman
Lawrence St. Clair
Kyla Akin de Asla Ann M. Beha Willa Bodman Richard M. Burnes, Jr. Ellen Cabot Lynn Dale Carol Deane Jessica Donohue Christian Draz Catherine E. Grein
Lila Berman Gross Amy Hunter Louise Johnson Ellen Kaplan Amelia Welt Katzen William T. Kennedy L. Joseph LoDato M. Lynne Markus Jeffrey Marshall Shari Noe
J.P. Barger
Sherif A. Nada
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Michael J. Puzo Alicia Cooney Quigley David W. Scudder Michael Shanahan Susan R. Shapiro David Shukis Ray Stata Christopher Tadgell Wat Tyler Frank Wisneski Christopher R. Yens Tania Zouikin
EMERITI
Jane Pisciottoli Papa Irving H. Plotkin Susanne Potts Malcolm Rogers Wendy Shattuck Lawrence St. Clair Deborah Swenson Sandra A. Urie Peter J. Wender Bertram Zarins
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BOSTON LYRIC OPERA presents
Music by Giacomo Puccini; Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Sung in Italian with projected English translation
Performances: November 2, 4m, 7, 9, 11m, 2012 The Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston
This production is made possible through the support of Paul and Sandra Montrone Jane and Steven Akin Sponsors of the new BLO production Conductor Andrew Bisantz Set Designer John Conklin
Stage Director Lillian Groag Costume Designer Marie Anne Chiment
Wigs and Makeup Designer Jason Allen
Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel
Projected English Titles Kelley Rourke
with Yunah Lee Sponsored by Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski Dinyar Vania Sponsored by Ms. Tania Zouikin Institutional Partners
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THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Lt. Pinkerton
Dinyar Vania * sponsored by Ms. Tania Zouikin
Goro Suzuki Sharpless
Michael Colvin * Kelley O’Connor * Weston Hurt *
Cio-Cio-San, Madama Butterfly
Yunah Lee *
The Imperial Commissioner
David Lara *
sponsored by Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski
The Official Registrar The Bonze Prince Yamadori Sorrow (Cio-Cio-San's child) Kate Pinkerton
Thomas Oesterling * David Cushing David McFerrin † TBA Nicole Rodin † sponsored by Susan A. Babson Fund for Emerging Artists
Rehearsal Coach/Accompanist
James Myers
Assistant Director
Crystal Manich
Production Stage Manager
Karen Oberthal
Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra Concert Mistress: Sandra Kott Boston Lyric Opera Chorus Chorus Master: Michelle Alexander
* signifies Boston Lyric Opera debut † signifies Boston Lyric Opera Emerging Artist
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BOSTON LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA Concert Mistress: Sandra Kott
BASS Robert Lynam* Barry Boettger Kevin Green
VIOLIN I Sandra Kott* Colin Davis Sue Rabut Natalie Favaloro Gerald Mordis Pattison Story Cynthia Cummings Stacey Alden Peter Hanly Lena Wong
FLUTE Linda Toote* Ann Bobo Iva Milch PICCOLO Iva Milch
VIOLIN II Jodi Hagen ** Robert Curtis Rohan Gregory Tera Gorsett Sasha Callahan Melanie Auclair-Fortier Maynard Goldman Sue Carrai
OBOE Nancy Dimock** Lynda Jacquin ENGLISH HORN Andrew Price CLARINET Jan Halloran* Steven Jackson
VIOLA Kenneth Stalberg* David Feltner Donna Jerome Abigail Cross Don Krishnaswami Jean Haig
BASS CLARINET Karen Heninger BASSOON Donald Bravo* Ronald Haroutunian
CELLO Melanie Dyball** Mark Simcox Jan Pfeiffer-Rios Steven Laven
FRENCH HORN Kevin Owen* Dirk Hillyer Carolyn Cantrell Iris Rosenstein TRUMPET Bruce Hall* Jesse Levine Greg Whitaker TROMBONE Robert Couture* Hans Bohn Mark Cantrell TUBA Donald Rankin* TIMPANI Jeffrey Fischer* PERCUSSION Richard Flanagan* John Tanzer HARP Ina Zdorovetchi* CELESTE James J. Myers
* Principal ** Acting Principal
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA CHORUS Chorus Master: Michelle Alexander
SOPRANO Marilyn Bulli Alisa E. Cassola Molly Paige Crookedacre Katrina Holden Valerie Kraft Simonsen Reina Marielena Powell Dana Schnitzer
MEZZO-SOPRANO Heather Gallagher Courtney Miller Stephanie Scarcella Vanessa Schukis Julia Snowden Lee G. Sullivan Samantha Weppelmann
TENOR Robert J. Cinnante Kevin Courtemanche Craig W. Hanson Frank Levar Christopher Maher Roland Mills Thomas Oesterling Fred C. VanNess, Jr
SUPERNUMERARIES Ellis Gage Jesse Martin 6
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Eunhee Kang
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PROGRAM NOTES NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR by Lillian Groag
BUTTERFLY Tragedy ensues from character. Butterfly is an interesting girl. Daughter of a Samurai, she is brought up within the strictest of honor codes which produce non-negotiable requirements regarding what we now call “the quality of life.” All the more demanding in her case since she is female and her father committed Seppuku, the epitome of an honorable death to safeguard his selfrespect and that of his family. When she meets Pinkerton she is an early 1900s geisha in a country where social classes were tightly locked in castes with no crossable boundaries. That she knows this and that it has troubled her is clearly stated in her aria to her son, in Sharpless’ presence, “Che tua madre,” where she describes the indignities of the occupation she thought she was escaping when she married Pinkerton. Like all her friends in her business pursuing similar “marriages” she would have seen it as a way out of a dubious situation which, given her background, would have been intolerable. She is not like the others though; Butterfly doesn’t “play by the rules” and falls in love where love is not required. “FLOWER QUARTERS” It has become standard, given our contemporary cultural climate, to view Puccini’s lovely—and sad—opera, as representative of yet another instance of the West’s “rape” of the East in its expansionist imperialist progress through the modern world. In fact, Japan was never “colonized” in the present sense of the word. A hermetically
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closed and severely regimented Imperial culture, it only reluctantly opened its ports (of which Nagasaki is prime) to Portuguese missionaries and adventurers in 1567. Having to spend long periods of time in Japan, these European merchants often hired Japanese girls from the “Flower Quarters” of Nagasaki to serve as wife–servants for periods extending to many months and sometimes years, a habit happily accepted by both cultures, and also financially beneficial to all. From time immemorial impecunious families had been selling their very young daughters to the “tea houses” of Nagasaki for geisha training and the girls—price and success depending on degrees of individual beauty—would come to look on this as an opportunity to help their families which otherwise would have suffered crippling poverty. MATTERS OF THE HEART One does not have to be a clueless young geisha from the turn of the century to misunderstand an impulsive expression of feeling between two people. One believes what one wants to believe and much heartbreak has come from this very misapprehension of the other’s heart. Love remains a mysterious, indefinable experience no matter what the culture, with vague and varying boundaries and “shelf-life” and the human heart remains a locked room with a lost key. PINKERTON What about Pinkerton? I find him oddly moving. Very young, no doubt abroad for the first time, unknowing, sensual, ram-
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bunctious and clueless he does as thousands of foreign men in Japan for centuries: he gets himself a pretty geisha with whom to cohabit for as long as he stays in the country until it’s time to go. Writing to Sharpless later, he naively imagines she would forget him as soon as his back was turned and that would have been just fine. The depth of distress in the music that brings him back, his soul in turmoil at the end, shows that he has finally—albeit too late—understood the enormity of the situation. SEPPUKU Madama Butterfly takes place in the shadow of the Hara-Kiri or, as the Japanese prefer to call the awe inspiring, terrible ceremony: Seppuku. The knife enters the stage with her, nestled in one of her sleeves, and it can be said that the whole opera is a relentless progress towards it…. Always a public act intricately tied to feudal mores, Seppuku represented a way to an honorable death worthy of and severely restricted to the aristocratic warrior class of the Samurai. In and out of favor, revered and derided through the centuries, it was practiced as lately as 1970, when the reactionary writer Yukio Mishima spectacularly (and ineptly, as it turns out) disemboweled himself. It’s essential to the act of Seppuku that there be witnesses to ensure and protect the dignity and seriousness of the occasion, however unwilling. This is why Butterfly asks that Pinkerton come himself in ½ hour to pick up the child. Presumably devoid of hysteria of any kind, and oddly non-melodramatic in con-
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ception, ideally, the deed is performed in high ceremony in the presence of as many officials as possible, and designed to have Form completely control vulgar Emotion. When a woman felt the need to commit the act, it was called Jigai and the action was to sever the carotid artery at the neck, which ensured a faster death by exsanguination. It was considered that a woman could not possibly withstand, or was unworthy of, the extreme pain which a disembowelment entailed which was the test of the courage and pride of the Samurai. This is Butterfly’s case, and it is important to understand that her act is not commensurate to an act of impulsive reaction as a bullet in the head, an overdose of drugs, or a dagger in the heart (Butterfly is most definitely not Juliet), but a clear-headed decision to end a life that cannot be lived with honor.
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ACT I The U.S. Navy Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton has contracted a match with the geisha Cio-CioSan (Madama Butterfly) arranged by the marriage broker Goro. The American consul, Sharpless, warns of the danger in this arrangement: the girl may not regard her vows with the same carefree and casual spirit that Pinkerton expresses. After the brief wedding ceremony, the guests toast the couple but are interrupted by Butterfly’s uncle (a Buddhist priest—the Bonze), who curses her for renouncing her ancestral religion. Pinkerton sends the guests away and comforts his frightened and shaken bride. He assures her of his love which she ecstatically returns. ACT II Three years have passed and Cio-Cio-San steadfastly awaits her husband’s return and rejects any doubts expressed by her faithful servant Suzuki. Goro tries to interest her in another suitor, the wealthy Prince Yamadori, but Butterfly refuses. Sharpless arrives with a letter from Lt. Pinkerton which tells of his marriage to an American girl, but moved by Butterfly’s passionate devotion (and by a devastating revelation) cannot, in the end, break the news. A ship is seen in the harbor—it is Pinkerton’s. Butterfly and Suzuki fill the house with flowers and begin their vigil. Dawn breaks… there is no sign of Pinkerton. Finally he arrives accompanied by Sharpless and Pinkerton’s new wife, Kate. Butterfly eventually sees the desperation of her unbearable situation and accepts the agonizing choice she must make.
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ARTISTS MICHAEL COLVIN GORO TENOR (BALLYMENA, NORTHERN IRELAND) BLO Debut Recent Highlights: Bob Boles, Peter Grimes, Opera de Oviedo; Goro, Madama Butterfly, English National Opera; Red Whiskers, Billy Budd, English National Opera Upcoming: Soloist, Britten’s Serenade, Louisville Orchestra; Mayor, Albert Herring, Pacific Opera Victoria; Priest, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Canadian Opera Company DAVID CUSHING THE BONZE BASS-BARITONE (MILFORD, MA) Recent Highlights: Doctor, Macbeth, Arthur, The Lighthouse, Don Basilio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Boston Lyric Opera; Dr. Dulcamara, Elisir d’Amore, Opera North Upcoming: Tom, Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera Tampa; Moses, Moses in Egypt, New York City Opera, George Wilson, The Great Gatsby, Emmanuel Music WESTON HURT SHARPLESS BARITONE (SPRING, TX) BLO Debut Recent Highlights: Sharpless, Madama Butterfly, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor, Austin Lyric Opera; Father, Hansel and Gretel, Portland Opera; Cecil, Maria Stuarda, Canadian Opera Company Upcoming: Rigoletto, Rigoletto, Boston Youth Symphony; Germont, La Traviata, Atlanta Opera; Ford, Falstaff, Portland Opera DAVID LARA THE IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER BARITONE (BUHLER, KS) BLO Debut Recent Highlights: Silvio, Pagliacci, Symphony Pro Musica; Soloist, Waterfire Concert, Opera Providence; Ali, L’Italiana in Algieri, Boston Midsummer Opera; Soloist, Sun Valley Opera YUNAH LEE CIO-CIO-SAN, MADAMA BUTTERFLY SOPRANO (ORADELL, NJ) BLO Debut
DAVID McFERRIN PRINCE YAMADORI BARITONE (BOSTON, MA) Recent Highlights: Pallante, Agrippina, BLO; Soloist, Fauré Requiem, New Hampshire Music Festival; Claudio, Beatrice and Benedict, Opera Boston Upcoming: Traveler, Clemency, BLO; Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas, Seraphic Fire; Elder Son, Britten’s The Prodigal Son, Intermezzo Opera KELLEY O’CONNOR SUZUKI MEZZO-SOPRANO (CLOVIS, CA) BLO Debut Recent Highlights: Lorca, Ainadamar, Santa Fe Opera and Opera Boston; Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Ursula, Beatrice & Benedict, Opera Boston; Soloist, John Adams’ El Niño, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Upcoming: John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, LA Phiharmonic; Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, National Symphony Orchestra; Debussy’s La Damoiselle Élue, Atlanta Symphony THOMAS OESTERLING THE OFFICIAL REGISTRAR TENOR (PRINCETON, NJ) Recent Highlights: Courtier #1, The Rocket’s Red Blare, Intermezzo Opera; Hermosa, L’Ille de Tulipitan, New England Light Opera; Tom Kintner, Coriander, Warebrook Contemporary Music Restival Upcoming: Faculty Recital, New England Conservatory, Spring 2013 NICOLE RODIN KATE PINKERTON MEZZO-SOPRANO (GLENCOE, IL) Recent Highlights: Giovanna, Rigoletto, Pittsburgh Opera; Apprentice Artist, Santa Fe Opera; Bobachino, The Inspector, BLO; Dargelos/Agathe, Les Énfants Terribles, North Carolina Opera; Mercedes, Carmen, Central City Opera Upcoming: Solo Recital, Pittsburgh Opera; Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Pittsburgh Opera; Angelina (Family Performance), La Cenerentola, Pittsburgh Opera
Recent Highlights: Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro, Kentucky Opera; Cio-Cio-San, Madama Butterfly, Opera Carolina; Cio-Cio-San, Madama Butterfly, Minnesota Opera
DINYAR VANIA LT. PINKERTON TENOR (NEW JERSEY) BLO Debut
Upcoming: Pamina, The Magic Flute, Opera Carolina; Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro, Virginia Opera
Recent Highlights: Lt. Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Ettore,
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ARTISTS Kimmo Hakola’s La Fenice (world premiere), Savolinna Festival; Lt. Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Pensacola Opera; Rodolfo, La Bohème, Dayton Opera Upcoming: Cavaradossi, Tosca, Opera Naples and Pensacola Opera; Cassio, Otello, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra LILLIAN GROAG STAGE DIRECTOR (LOS ANGELES, CA) BLO: Agrippina, Idomeneo, Lucie de Lammermoor Recent Highlights: Orfeo ed Euridice, Arizona Opera; Carmen, Lyric Opera of Virginia; Aida, Virginia Opera; Le Nozze di Figaro, Kentucky Opera Upcoming: Director—Le Nozze di Figaro, Virginia Opera, 2013; War Music at the Getty; Playwright—A Nervous Splendour, Aimee and Jaguar at A.R.T.; Mother and Son ANDREW BISANTZ CONDUCTOR BLO: The Turn of the Screw, Tosca Recent Highlights: Don Giovanni, Wolf Trap Opera; Carmen, Eugene Opera; Nixon in China, Eugene Opera
ROBERT WIERZEL LIGHTING DESIGNER (NEW YORK, NY) BLO: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Agrippina, Idomeneo, Don Giovanni, Rusalka, Werther Recent Highlights: Lost in the Stars and Aida, Glimmerglass Opera; Story/Time, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; La Traviata, New York City Opera; L’étoile, Den Nye Opera, Norway; Candide, Portland Opera Upcoming: La Boheme, Seattle Opera; The Scarlet Letter, Opera Colorado; A Rite, Bill T. Jones and Siti Company/Anne Bogart; Carmen, Opera Sør, Kristiansand, Norway; King for a Day and Camelot, Glimmerglass Opera JASON ALLEN WIG AND MAKE-UP DESIGNER (BOSTON, MA) BLO: Agrippina, Idomeneo Recent Highlights: Nabucco, The Minnesota Opera; Good People, The Huntington Theatre Company; I Pagliacci, Mill City Summer Opera Upcoming: Anna Bolena, Doubt, The Minnesota Opera; Betrayal, The Huntington Theatre Company; The Nutcracker, Boston Ballet
Upcoming: Pirates of Penzance, Eugene Opera; Die Zauberföte, Florida Grand Opera; Dead Man Walking, Eugene Opera JOHN CONKLIN SET DESIGNER (BOSTON, MA) BLO: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Agrippina, Idomeneo Recent Highlights: 2011 NEA Opera Honors recipient Upcoming: Ongoing BLO Signature Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; academic partnership with Boston University’s Opera Institute MARIE ANNE CHIMENT COSTUME DESIGNER (NEW YORK CITY, NY) BLO Debut Recent Highlights: La Soiree Rameau, New York Baroque Dance Company, Les Malins-Plaisir; Pygmalion and His Statue, New York Baroque Dance Company, Musicfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci; Much Ado About Nothing, Mauckingbird Theatre Company; Rigoletto, Cincinnati Opera Upcoming: Liverpudlian Sleeve (world premiere) by Davey White, Tomlinson Theater; The Importance of Being Earnest, Mauckingbird Theatre Company
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INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF OPERA Boris Goldovsky was a visionary teacher, stage director, conductor and impresario. His pioneering work profoundly influenced generations of artists and shaped the performance and popularity of opera in America. Many opera enthusiasts remember his informative and entertaining Saturday Metropolitan Opera intermission talks, books, lectures, training workshops and performances. Locally, he began the New England Opera Theater under the sponsorship of New England Conservatory and was director of opera development at the Tanglewood Music Center. His students included Sarah Caldwell, Phyllis Curtin, and Sherrill Milnes among many others. Planned gifts enable BLO to continue to produce high-quality opera for the community and to educate and attract the next generation of audience, supporters and opera professionals. Membership in The Boris Goldovsky Society is given in recognition of those who have made a provision in a will, living trust, deferred gift plan, or retirement plan that will benefit BLO. BLO thanks the members of The Boris Goldovsky Society for Planned Giving. Anonymous (2) Ms. Diana Abrashkin Dorothy and David Arnold* Linda Cabot Black* Nonnie and Rick Burnes* Mr. Tim Daughters Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Del Sesto Tamara P. and Charles H. Davis II Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport Robert and Susan Eastman* Mr. and Mrs. Dean W. Freed Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Grein, Jr. * Gillian Stuart Hamer Mimi and Roger Hewlett* Amy Hunter and Steven Maguire* Horace H. Irvine II*
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For information on The Boris Goldovsky Society or Planned Gifts, please contact Sarah Blume at 617.542.4912 x228.
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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Boston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their support. Their generous in-kind and monetary donations provide invaluable support for BLO’s productions and programs. This list includes contributions and pledges made through September 24, 2012.
CRESCENDO MEMBERS ($100,000 and above) Anonymous (2) Seyfarth Shaw LLP
VIVACE MEMBERS ($33,333 to $66,666) Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Massachusetts Cultural Council
PRESTO MEMBERS ($25,000 to $33,332) National Endowment for the Arts The Klarman Family Foundation
ALLEGRO MEMBERS ($10,000 to $24,999)
Bank of America Boston Private Bank & Trust Cabot Family Charitable Trust Harold Alfond Foundation
ADAGIO MEMBERS ($5,000 to $9,999)
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
The Calderwood Charitable Foundation
Mattina R. Proctor Foundation
Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation
Medical Information Technology Inc. OPERA America Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists part of the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation
Sovereign Bank
GRAZIOSO MEMBERS ($3,000 to $4,999)
Anchor Capital Advisors
BRAVISSIMO MEMBERS ($1,500 to $2,999)
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Esther Nelson, General & Artistic Director David Angus, Music Director John Conklin, Artistic Advisor Dan Duro, Managing Director
ARTISTIC
Nicholas G. Russell Erik Johnson Jordan King
PRODUCTION
Dan Duro Dana Ciccotello Islanda Khau Scott Levine Kalina Schloneger
Director of Artistic Operations Company Manager Artistic Associate
Managing Director Production Administrator Design Manager Technical Production Manager Manager, Director’s Office
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Mimi de Quesada Joyce Linehan Joanna Stenning Amanda Villegas
Julie-Anne Whitney
PRODUCTION STAFF
Karen Oberthal Teri Jo Fuson Stacey Salotto Rickelle Williams B. Alix Lopes Jenny Ciaffone Mike Condon Patrick Glynn Jeremy Smith Justin Colantuoni James R. McCartney Dianna Reardon Ed Hartigan Michelle Caron Molly Tiede Kathryn Kawecki Daniel McGaha Jason Allen Rachel Padua-Shufelt Kirk Cambridge-Del Pesche Kate Ellingson
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Eileen Nugent Williston Ceceilia Allwein Sarah Blume Heather Coulter Renee M. Dunn
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Elizabeth Seitz
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Manager of Community Engagement Principal Guest Lecturer
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Kathleen Creegan Damaskos Chris Beaudry David J. Cullen Reingard Heller
VOLUNTEER CORPS
Clementine Brown Jane Cammack Jose Alberto Colon Stephen Chan Ashley Chang Barbara Compton Ann D’Angelo Jeannie Curhan Mary DePoto Frances Driscoll Marian Ead Susan Eastman Hugh Fitzgerald Audley Fuller Ralph Gioncardi Linda Granitto Jennifer Harris Bruce Houston Molly Johnson Eva Karger Milling Kinard Jo Anna Klein Esther Lable Melissa Lanouette
Chief Administrative Officer Office Associate Accounting Manager Finance Manager
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Advanced Lighting and
Mandarin Oriental, Boston
Production Services
• Mark Schwindenhammer
Grill 23 Millennium Place Garage
Jim Deveer
Rustic Kitchen Bistro & Bar
Post 390
American Repertory Theatre
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Tantric India Bistro
• Steve Setterlun
• James Peters
Chocolate Therapy
• Cindy Lee Sullivan
Scott Berry
Red Cup Designs
Costume Works, Inc.
• Alison Flippin
• Liz Perlman
Denka Trucking Dick Butler
Vapiano Alexander Aronson Finning Anchor Capital Advisors LLC Artists for Humanity
PALS Children’s Chorus
Boston Landmarks Orchestra
Grossman Marketing
Boston Public Library
• Julie O’Gorman
Citi Performing Arts Center
VDA Productions
IATSE Local #11 JACET United Staging & Rigging
• Susan DiDonato Prue
• Josiah A. Spaulding, Jr.
Elderhostel, Inc./
Joyce Kulhawik
• Eric Frishman
Road Scholar
Taylar Development
Sherrill Milnes
Fidelity Investments
Boston Color Graphics
Iggy’s Breads of the World
mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.
Genovese Vanderhoof & Associates
• Nikola Ivanovic
Erika Santucci
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Pro Print Boston
Chryssi Yip
Winston Flowers
Kimberly Curhan
Sovereign Bank
Be Our Guest, Inc.
Avila
Peter D. Sykes
Sovereign Bank
Bistro du Midi
Samantha Gambaccini
• Michael Holt
Da Vinci Ristorante
Wheelock Family Theatre
• Khaled Khalil
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse &
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• Andrew L. Eisenberg, Esq.
• John Bay
Wine Bar
ARTISTIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Susan Bennett, M.D., Company Physician Consultant Associate Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital Miho Sato—Japanese Style Consultant
PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Scenery constructed by American Repertory Theatre Scenic Studio Costumes owned and provided by Opera Theatre of St. Louis Additional costumes designed by Gail Astrid Buckley, and constructed by Costume Works, Inc., Somerville, MA Lighting Equipment provided by Advanced Lighting & Production Services, Inc. Masks provided by Eric Bornstein—Behind the Mask Studio (www.behindthemask.org) The Artists and Stage Managers employed on this production are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists. All musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. The scenic, costume, and lighting designers are members of United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. Stagehands are represented by Local #11 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Boston Lyric Opera is a member of OPERA America, the national service organization for opera in the U.S. and Canada.
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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION • At the request of our patrons, Boston Lyric Opera observes the national opera standard of a No Late Seating Policy. While we understand that traffic conditions, public transportation, or weather can have unexpected effects on your arrival, we wish to minimize disruptions for our seated patrons and for our artists onstage. Latecomers will be asked to wait in the lobby until the earliest possible break in the performance, which in some cases may not be until the intermission. Should you arrive late, the Company provides a video monitor in the lobby where you may watch the performance until you are seated. • Patrons who leave the theatre during the performance may not be seated again until intermission. • The use of cameras and recording devices in this theatre is strictly prohibited. • Please turn off the electronic signal on your watch, pager or cellular phone during the performance.
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• In consideration of Boston Lyric Opera patrons, children under six will not be admitted. • The Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible. For patrons with disabilities, wheelchair accessible and companion seating, as well as removable arm chairs in a variety of prices and locations on the Orchestra level are available. There is no elevator in the Shubert Theatre. There are steps to the Mezzanine and Balcony level. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom and concession stand are located just off the main lobby. A wheelchair-accessible telephone is located in the box office lobby. The Shubert Theatre is equipped with an FM assistive listening device for use by patrons who are hard of hearing. Headsets are available free of charge at the Head Usher’s desk. A pay-TTY device for use by deaf patrons is located in the box office lobby. • Patrons requiring assistance should contact the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM in advance of their visit. Please call 617.482.9393 or 617.482.5757 (TTY). Patrons who are deaf are encouraged to use the Massachusetts Relay Service at 800.439.2370 for purchasing tickets to BLO productions. Please direct inquiries and requests for ADA guidelines to: Access Services Administrator, The Citi Performing Arts Center, 270 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116.
TICKET INFORMATION Single tickets for Madama Butterfly are available exclusively through blo.org, at 866.348.9738 (TTY 888.889.8587), and at the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Box Office, Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6 pm. For information, visit blo.org.
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