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MOMENTS OF DISCOVERY Delving Deeper into Hercules BY CLAIRE MORLEY

12 DEVEREUX DREAM TEAM A Stellar Cast Brings Elizabethan Court to Life BY GIANMARCO SEGATO

24 MASTERING MASSENET Ferruccio Furlanetto Leads an Incomparable Cast BY CLAIRE MORLEY

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MOMENTS OF DISCOVERY DELVING DEEPER INTO HERCULES BYCLAIRE MORLEY

f opera is a profoundly collaborative art form, it could hardly ask for a better keeper than Peter Sellars. “I don’t think of myself as a director ever,” he explains. “You have amazing people in the room – brilliant singers, composer, and usually somebody Peter Sellars who wrote pretty amazing words. You have visual art and you have movement. Somebody has to invite all these elements to meet in interesting ways, to take risks and actually have a conversation about something that is difficult and not obvious. All of these complicated interactions need someone to help negotiate the exchange – my job is to be useful in those conditions.” Sellars’ collaborative approach is especially evident in Hercules, allowing all five singers in this production (Eric Owens, Alice Coote, David Daniels, Richard Croft, Lucy Crowe) to establish a powerful rapport and chemistry that is rare to witness on stage. This is the second time this cast and creative team have worked together on Hercules, the first occurring in 2011 when the production premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago and was called “psychologically penetrating and spellbinding” (LA Times). Having the chance to see them work together again is to Toronto’s advantage. 4

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Alice Coote as Dejanira and David Daniels as Hyllus. All production photos from the COC/Lyric Opera of Chicago (LOC) co-production of Hercules, 2011, LOC. Photos: Dan Rest

As Sellars points out, “We can go further. The first time you’re just trying to pull it together; the second time out you can say ‘Okay, we know what this is, now let’s go much deeper.’” Even before arriving in town for rehearsals, the cast began revisiting their roles as they prepared to work together as a team again. As Alice Coote (Dejanira) put it, “I can’t wait to see the cast of Hercules again. The profundity of the piece means we get kind of close!” And Lucy Crowe, who portrays prisoner of war Iole says, “Having lived with the role for the past three years, the character has developed further in my mind. I think about her – I will watch the news and see victims of war, unfortunately too often. This adds to the depth of the emotions with which I portray her.” In fact, Hercules conductor Harry Bicket, who was also part of the 2011 Chicago team, considers Iole’s first aria (“Daughter of Gods, Bright Liberty!”) to be a particularly moving moment. Iole has been captured and, in Sellars’ production, sings her aria about freedom while chained, wearing an orange jump suit and black hood. Bicket recalls, “We were worried people

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might be offended, but Peter’s take was actually that, for instance, when an American president or defense minister talks about freedom and what it means to go liberate another country, it has a very Hercules conductor Harry Bicket different resonance to somebody who is tied up and being tortured. I’m not someone who thinks that all opera should be directly political – this is more of a human issue, and I think that speaks to people of any political persuasion.” As Bicket points out, “One of the advantages of Handel is that the score is really just a sketch – you aren’t given exact instructions the way you would with a piece by Stravinsky or Strauss. With Handel, in many ways, it’s more open.” Sellars adds, “What’s so beautiful about Baroque music is you can sing it in an extremely personal way – it’s very improvisatory. Each performer creates something that is quite personal – you witness somebody searching their own heart and finding their own confession, moment of discovery, and moment of recognition.” Aiding in the search for these moments is, according to David Daniels (Lichas), what makes Sellars particularly strong at directing Handel operas. “Peter makes everything so relevant, the way Handel is also very relevant the way he writes his music and characters. People really connect with Handel emotionally.” Eric Owens (Hercules) echoes Daniels’ sentiments, and recalls that at the end of rehearsals in Chicago, “sometimes we would all just be crying. Peter does not direct to provide comfort to his audiences – he directs to make things relevant to them.”

Richard Croft as Hyllus and Lucy Crowe as Iole

Ultimately, these intense experiences translate into something that can be felt by artists and audience alike. And delving this deeply into the opera and each role requires profound levels of trust between everyone involved, allowing for the creation of that magical rapport we witness on stage. When it comes time to perform, Richard Croft (Hyllus) says that “Going out on stage is a lot like going into battle. It’s good to know that Harry will be there for us in the pit.” Says Bicket, “Anyone who has ever done a show with Peter thinks it’s the best thing they’ve ever done. He has a wonderful ability to make people feel what they are doing is really important.” n Claire Morley is Associate Manager, Editorial at the Canadian Opera Company.

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OPERA BACKGROUND George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) was born in Halle, Germany, but moved to England in his mid-20s. He enjoyed tremendous success in London as a composer of Italian-style opera seria, writing some 40 works in the genre. By the 1730s, however, he began to move away from Italian-sung opera to focus on English oratorio. In Handel’s time and place, oratorio meant a musical entertainment based on a Biblical subject; it was sung in English and performed as a concert, i.e. without scenery, costumes or stage action, and featured the chorus more prominently than Italian opera did. Hercules (1745) is something of an oratorio-opera hybrid. Drawn from ancient mythology rather than a sacred text, it’s formally outside an oratorio’s parameters. Handel himself labelled it a “musical drama” and commentators have wrestled with the work’s genre classification ever since, calling it “secular oratorio,” “choral opera,” “mythological oratorio,” and even “classical drama.” The libretto was written by Thomas Broughton, an English clergyman, who in addition to relying on Sophocles’ stage play also spliced in material from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and almost certainly Seneca’s Latin tragedy Hercules Oetaeus. Today, director Peter Sellars has compressed the libretto to bring its structure closer to the Greek play that inspired it, “putting Handel,” as Sellars says, “in direct collaboration with Sophocles.” Hercules was a failure at its premiere in 1745. The reasons for its cool reception are not entirely clear. Some historians posit a rivalry among London theatres – Handel might have upset some aristocratic impresarios a year earlier by refusing to write a pair of new operas for their establishment – which rippled out to affect sales for his latest work. Others have suggested that Hercules suffered because it was presented in a form (oratorio) unsuitable to its true, or more natural, genre (opera). It was not until the 20th century – in conjunction with a broader rediscovery of Handel’s work – that Hercules came to be recognized as one of the composer’s greatest achievements. Visit coc.ca/COCRadio to access listening guides for all our productions. 8

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el canto (literally, “beautiful singing”) is an elusive term. It is most often used as a convenient, catch-all phrase referring to the early 19th-century period in Italian opera dominated by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. But it also denotes a singing style, the hallmarks of which are beauty of tone, wide range, extreme flexibility and expressive utterance of text. For this spring’s Roberto Devereux, the COC has assembled an ace team of highly trained vocal athletes who are ready to meet bel canto’s extreme demands in Donizetti’s great historical drama about the last days of England’s “Virgin Queen,” Elizabeth I (Elisabetta). In that pivotal role, superstar soprano Sondra Radvanovsky makes her hotly anticipated return to the COC after bringing down the house as Aida in 2010. While her career has mainly been centred on core, late-Romantic Italian roles such as Leonora in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Radvanovsky’s exploration of earlier 19th-century bel canto heroines like Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda (who together with Elisabetta make up Donizetti’s “Tudor Trilogy”) is much more recent. The soprano’s account of the path that led her to bel canto is fascinating and frankly revealing. In 2002, a polyp (caused by a botched childhood intubation) was removed from her vocal chords. “I had to learn how to sing all over again. It opened up a whole new world for me, a world 12

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A scene from Roberto Devereux (Dallas Opera, 2009). All production photos: Karen Almond

I never thought or imagined musically I would be singing in.” Radvanovksy credits her voice coach Tony Manoli with steering her in this new direction. Despite her many Sondra Radvanovsky accomplishments as a Verdi singer, he was convinced she had the potential to be even greater in the bel canto repertoire. Together, they re-worked her technique post-surgery and in the process, she feels she became “a better singer. It was a godsend. No one else heard it; [Manoli] was the only one.” The ultimate affirmation of this vocal transformation was her recent fall 2013 Metropolitan Opera Norma (the summit of all bel canto roles) – “it was a huge success… HUGE!” Radvanovsky notes that elsewhere in his Tudor Trilogy “Donizetti chose to highlight earlier stages of the Queens’ lives whereas Elisabetta is at the end and she’s worn down; she’s a broken woman. She was a very strong Queen, as we know, but here she’s angry a lot and it shows in the vocal writing Donizetti gave her. If you look at the length of the role, Elisabetta is the shortest, especially compared to Anna Bolena which is a marathon. In fact, Elisabetta doesn’t appear

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in quite a bit of the opera but she has the opera to save him and do the right thing key moments and by far the hardest music. no matter what the consequences are for In terms of vocal range, hers is the widest her. This is beautifully laid out in Donizetti’s with a great amount of dramatic coloratura music: moments of torture, love, tenderness that is just unrelenting.” and desperation.” McHardy concurs with Roberto Devereux’s title role will be sung the generally held opinion that Roberto by debuting Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti. Devereux’s success is largely due to A regular at Europe’s leading Salvatore Cammarano’s superior opera houses, North American libretto with its strong command audiences will know him best of text and clear storyline. for his riveting portrayal of the “The characters are so real and Emperor Tito in the recent so complete. Their interactions Metropolitan Opera HD are intense, complex and so transmission of Mozart’s wonderfully nuanced. It takes La clemenza di Tito. “From English history and sets it on Giuseppe Filianoti the start, Roberto knows there fire!” is no escaping the jealousy of The fourth player in the the 63-year-old queen, wounded drama is Sara’s husband, the in her pride and in her love,” Duke of Nottingham. In says Filianoti. “[He] represents general, bel canto opera does the typical romantic hero: young, not bestow the same gifts attractive, ambitious, valorous and on baritones that it does on merciful in war but, unfortunately, sopranos and tenors, however, Allyson McHardy in love with the wrong woman. Nottingham is an exception to He hopes until the end to be able this rule, blessed as he is with to save himself from an unjust one of the opera’s great melodies, death sentence and to redeem “Forse in quel cor sensibile” the honour of his beloved Sara. (“Perhaps in that sensitive heart”). Although his execution inevitably This isn’t lost on Canadian star takes place, we at least get to baritone Russell Braun: “His hear his final appeal in one of the music is wonderful and the Russell Braun most beautiful arias Donizetti character is very mature actually. wrote for the tenor voice, “Come He’s very ordinary at the uno spirito angelico” (“Like an angelic spirit”). beginning but what happens to him as the The third member of this tragic love result of jealousy, and through the sense triangle is Sara, Duchess of Nottingham sung of a loss of power is what makes the drama. by COC favourite, Canadian mezzo-soprano Because he’s so human at the beginning Allyson McHardy. “Sara is an opera singer’s I feel his transformation is believable and dream,” enthuses McHardy. “She lives a really shows what actually can happen tortured life married to someone she doesn’t to each and every one of us in this really love [the Duke of Nottingham]. She situation.” n feels a certain allegiance to Elizabeth and therefore, must hide her feelings for Gianmarco Segato is Adult Programs Manager at the Canadian Opera Company. Devereux. She fights through the entire FOR FURTHER INSIGHT INTO THE COC’S PRODUCTION OF ROBERTO DEVEREUX, PLEASE READ THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH SONDRA RADVANOVSKY IN THE SPRING ISSUE OF PRELUDE, AVAILABLE ONLINE AT COC.CA/PUBLICATIONS.

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Hasmik Papian (centre) as Elisabetta and Andrew Oakden (upper right) as Sir Gualtiero Raleigh in Roberto Devereux (Dallas Opera, 2009). Photo: Karen Almond

ROBERTO DEVEREUX OPERA BACKGROUND Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (1835) and Roberto Devereux (1837) are known as Donizetti’s “Tudor Trilogy.” All three stories have a strong connection to Queen Elizabeth I, yet she is almost never given the starring role: Elizabeth doesn’t even appear in Anna Bolena (but the story deals with the events surrounding her birth); she is second fiddle to Mary Stuart in Maria Stuarda; and the third opera doesn’t even bear her name in the title. Few have managed to sing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor Queens and survive! Famously, American soprano Beverly Sills managed the feat at New York City Opera during the early 1970s but admitted it shortened her opera career. Sondra Radvanovsky will take on the Sills trifecta when she sings the “Tudor Trilogy” at Metropolitan Opera in 2015/2016. Set designer Benoit Durgardyn found inspiration in one of the most famous Elizabethan play houses, the Globe Theatre – Shakespeare’s home base in London. The Globe design offered a multi-level playing space with its ranks of balconies surrounding an open playing area. Elisabetta primarily appears centre stage while the balconies offer the chorus an ideal vantage point to observe and comment on the action. COC audiences will recognize the set from 2010’s Maria Stuarda but it was also used for Sondra Radvanovsky’s Anna Bolena at Washington National Opera in 2012. The soprano loves “the whole concept of it being in the round, of the Globe Theatre influence and it’s great for projecting the voice, too – I don’t have to work as hard because I have all this wood around me!” Visit coc.ca/COCRadio to access listening guides for all our productions. Catch up with blogs and enjoy COC Radio at coc.ca.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY PUCCINI The COC’s exquisitely beautiful production of Puccini’s heartbreaking masterpiece has achieved classic status as “one of the treasures of the COC’s collection” (Globe and Mail). Sharing the title role this fall with Kelly Kaduce is Patricia Racette, whose Butterfly touched millions in the recent Metropolitan Opera HD transmission. “Someone once said to me early on in my training that you do not choose your signature role, it chooses you. And certainly that is the case with Madama Butterfly. I’ve lost count now as to how many performances of the role I have done but it’s a part I am honoured to have. It’s a phenomenal exercise in stamina, both vocally and physically, and my voice really feels comfortable with that kind of demand and challenge. What I see [in Butterfly] is someone I admire. What I see are qualities that I find unique and interesting and so incredibly feminine, yet so incredibly strong. And I’m fascinated with how that is layered in this character.”

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ROBERTO DEVEREUX by Gaetano Donizetti Opera in Three Acts. libretto by Salvadore Cammarano after françoise Ancelot’s tragedy, Elisabeth d’Angleterre first Performance: Teatro San Carlo, naples, October 29, 1837 Production of Dallas Opera COC Premiere April 25, 29, May 3, 10, 15, 18, 21, 2014 Sung in Italian with english SUrTITleSTM

THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance)

Sara, Duchess of Nottingham Elisabetta, Queen of England Lord Cecil Sir Gualtiero Raleigh A Page Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex Duke of Nottingham A Servant of Nottingham Conductor Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Chorus Master Stage Manager SURTITLES™ Producer

Allyson McHardy^* Sondra Radvanovsky** Owen McCausland†*** Matt Boehler Gordon Bintner†**** Leonardo Capalbo (April 25, 29, May 3) Giuseppe Filianoti (May 10, 15, 18, 21) Russell Braun***** Neil Craighead^ Corrado Rovaris Stephen Lawless Benoît Dugardyn Ingeborg Bernerth Mark McCullough Sandra Horst^****** Jenifer Kowal Gunta Dreifelds

Performance time is approximately two hours and 45 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission.

**Sondra Radvanovsky’s performance is generously sponsored by an anonymous donor *****Russell Braun’s performance is generously sponsored by Earlaine Collins *Allyson McHardy’s performance is generously sponsored by J. Hans Kluge ***Owen McCausland’s performance is generously sponsored by Peter and Hélène Hunt ****Gordon Bintner’s performance is generously sponsored by Marcia Lewis Brown ******Sandra Horst and the Canadian Opera Company Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim and Frances Price

† Current member of the COC ensemble Studio ^Graduate of the COC ensemble Studio

Program information is correct at time of printing. All casting is subject to change.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTES

ow would Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) have viewed Queen Elizabeth the First of England (1533–1603)? We have, in the 21st century, become acclimatised to a specific view of “Good Queen Bess” through film (Bette Davis, Flora Robson and Cate Blanchett) and television (Glenda Jackson and Helen Mirren), not to mention countless biographies. The consensus is of a remarkable woman who advocated religious tolerance, yet, was able to guarantee the success of her Protestant faith as the official church in England. She was a woman who bravely survived the vagaries and dangers of her early life to become a major player on the world stage. Her career saw English Arts — namely theatre with Shakespeare, Marlowe, et al — blossom as never before. She was renowned and loved for putting her country before her personal happiness and died having presided over a Golden Age. This Anglocentric view would have been utterly incomprehensible to an Italian of Gaetano Donizetti’s time and background: Elizabeth would have been perceived, at best, as an equivocal character. She had kicked Catholicism out of England and was, therefore, a heretic. In the eyes

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of Catholics, she was illegitimate, as her father Henry VIII had never obtained an annulment from the Pope to end his first marriage in order to marry his second wife (Elizabeth’s mother), Anne Boleyn. This meant that others had more secure claims upon the throne of England. Even in her own day, Elizabeth was much mocked in England and across Europe for her virgin status. Sixteenth-century attitudes saw a woman who would not be guided by her husband as unnatural and highly suspect. In fact, there was something positively ungodly about a woman exercising power without a husband’s restraint, and the same could be said of early 19th-century attitudes towards women. Elizabeth’s flirtations with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his stepson Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (among others), opened her to the charge of wantonness. She became the almost comic stereotype of the aging woman: rouged, powdered and bewigged in an attempt to hold back the ravages of time; still slave to her passions, a figure of ridicule, as well as of tragedy. Her death was a cause for rejoicing throughout Catholic Europe. This would have been the orthodoxy that Donizetti inherited about Queen Elizabeth.

When I was asked to direct Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy — Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux — I was attracted by the possibility of creating a chronicle of the life of Elizabeth along the lines of Shakespeare’s history cycles. This may sound strange, given that Elizabeth doesn’t appear in the first part of the trilogy, is a secondary character in the middle section and is not even given the title role in the third! Yet, individually, the operas reveal many aspects and incidents in Elizabeth’s life and intriguing facets of her character. Collectively, they paint a much more complete — if historically inaccurate — portrait. Donizetti’s skill in creating a consistent character over the course of the second and third operas is considerable. The composer creates a character that is, by turns, witty and wilful, commanding and vulnerable, politically astute and personally unsure, a woman in charge of the destiny of her country but incapable of ruling her own heart. Intriguingly, by presenting her love in both operas as the two Roberts (Dudley, Earl of Leicester and his stepson Devereux, Earl of Essex) Donizetti creates the idea of a woman trying to recapture the earlier magic of her love for the first Robert with

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the much-less-worthy second. By depicting the collapse of the marriage of Elizabeth’s parents in Anna Bolena to such devastating effect, he also provides a possible motive for Elizabeth’s decision never to consent to marriage. We have set these operas in one performing space, namely the Globe Theatre. The operas mirror the Shakespearean idea of the monarch being like an actor on a stage. Theatre changed radically in Elizabethan England. By the end of the Elizabethan reign, theatre was performed indoors as well as outdoors, enabling spectacular (for the time) effects. Roberto Devereux takes place entirely indoors (unlike Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda) and that is what we have tried to effect in this opera, dealing with the last days of Elizabeth’s reign. The title of the last opera in the trilogy may be Roberto Devereux, but, its extended final scene for Elizabeth provides a suitable epitaph for the character who has dominated this trilogy — Elizabeth the First of England. Stephen Lawless

SYNOPSIS

ACT I The Royal Palace at Westminster. The ladies of the court ask Sara, Duchess of Nottingham and the Queen’s favourite, why she is weeping. She says it is because she is reading the sad story of Rosamunde, but privately fears her secret has been discovered that she is in love with Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. Queen Elizabeth enters. She tells Sara that Robert Devereux is due to arrive soon. He has been charged with treason for deserting his command in Ireland and plotting to seize the throne, but Elizabeth will pardon him if he tells her that he loves her. The Duke of Nottingham, Sara’s husband, has been pleading with the members of Parliament for his friend’s acquittal. Lord Cecil, Sir Walter Raleigh, and members of Parliament arrive and beg the Queen to press their charges against Devereux. Devereux arrives and denies any treason. The Queen reminds Devereux that he need only present the ring she gave him, and his safety will be guaranteed. She asks if Devereux is in love with another woman; he replies, “No,” but also refuses to say

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he is in love with Elizabeth. Nottingham joins them and assures Devereux that he will do everything to have the treason charge dismissed. Cecil and Raleigh call Nottingham to join the debate in Parliament. Nottingham’s residence. Sara anxiously awaits the arrival the Roberto Devereux. When he arrives, he calls her a traitor to their love for marrying Nottingham, but she says she had no choice when the Queen arranged the match after the death of Sara’s father. She accuses him of being in love with the Queen, but he denies it and gives her the Queen’s ring. They declare their undying love for each other, but realize they can never meet again. In parting, Sara gives Devereux a scarf she has embroidered in gold. INTERMISSION ACT II The Royal Palace.

The courtiers await word on the deliberations in Parliament. Cecil informs the Queen of the verdict: death. Cecil also reports that Devereux did not return until dawn, and,

when he was searched, a scarf was found next to his heart. The Queen looks at the scarf and declares it a love token. Nottingham brings the death warrant, but asks the Queen to be merciful. She replies that she has proof that Devereux is a traitor. Devereux is brought in. The Queen tells him that she has proof he lied to her when he denied being in love with another woman. When she shows Devereux the scarf, Nottingham recognizes it as the one Sara had been embroidering. The Queen offers to spare Devereux from execution if he will reveal the name of his lover. He refuses. The Queen gives Cecil the signed warrant and orders the guards to take Devereux to the Tower. ACT III Nottingham’s residence. A soldier brings Sara a letter from Devereux. The letter asks her to take the ring to the Queen, which will save his life. Before Sara can leave, Nottingham demands to see the letter. He takes it from her and reads it. He rages against his friend and his wife who

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have both deceived him. Sara begs to go to the Queen with the ring, promising to return and submit to Nottingham’s punishment. He refuses, saying that the death of Devereux will be her punishment. A cell in the Tower of London. Devereux is resigned to death. His only wish is to clear Sara’s name. He is confident that God will reunite their blameless souls. The Royal Palace. The Queen is in agony wondering why Devereux has not sent her the ring that would save him. Cecil reports that all is in order for the execution, and that Devereux has made no last request. Sara arrives and gives the ring to the Queen, admitting, “I am your rival.” The Queen orders the execution stopped, but before anyone can move, a cannon shot signals that Devereux has been executed. The Queen asks why Sara delayed so long in bringing the ring. Nottingham replies that he delayed its delivery because, “I wanted blood, and I got blood!” The Queen banishes Nottingham and Sara. Stricken by the loss of the people she loved most, the Queen sinks into depression, saying, “I no longer reign ... I no longer live.”

MUSIC STAFF

Rachel Andrist (Head Coach) Michael Shannon (Ensemble Studio Intern Coach) Steven Philcox ITALIAN LANGUAGE COACH

Manuela Scarci ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Eric Weimer ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Allison Grant ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS

Tiffany Fraser Kristin McCollum ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNERS

Wendy Greenwood (Lighting Co-ordinator) Davida Tkach Andrea Nelson UNDERSTUDIES

Sara Elisabetta Lord Cecil Sir Gualtiero Raleigh Roberto Devereux Duke of Nottingham

Charlotte Burrage Ambur Braid Andrew Haji Neil Craighead Edgar Ernesto Ramírez Cameron McPhail

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ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES GORDON BINTNER A Page

Regina, Saskatchewan native bass-baritone Gordon Bintner won first prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2012 COC Ensemble Studio Competition. He recently appeared at the COC as Don Alfonso in the Ensemble performance of Così fan tutte and the Customs Officer in La Bohème. Recent performances include Bill in Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (Ensemble Modern); Escamillo in Carmen (Saskatoon Opera), Nardo in La finta giardiniera (San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program) and Lescaut in Manon (Opéra de Montréal). Other credits include the title roles in Le nozze di Figaro (Opera NUOVA) and Don Giovanni (Opera McGill); Colline in La Bohème (Angers Nantes Opéra); Coronation Mass (Toronto Symphony Orchestra); and, as the OSM Standard Life Competition’s grand prize winner, he recently made his Montreal Symphony Orchestra debut. MATT BOEHLER Sir Gualtiero Raleigh

American bass Matt Boehler is making his COC debut. Recent appearances include the Policeman/Black Marketeer in The Nose (Metropolitan Opera); Hotel Manager in Powder Her Face (New York City Opera and Festival Opéra de Québec); Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Daland in Der fliegende Holländer, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Sparafucile in Rigoletto and Pfarrer/Dachs in The Cunning Little Vixen (Theater St. Gallen); and Handel’s Messiah (Jacksonville Symphony). Future engagements include Bertrand in Iolantha (Met); Rocco in Fidelio (Madison Opera); Please visit coc.ca for additional information

and debuts with the Dallas Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie and Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. In concert, he has been heard with the New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Oratorio Society of New York. RUSSELL BRAUN Duke of Nottingham

Canadian baritone Russell Braun last appeared with the COC as the Conte di Luna in Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Other COC roles include Jaufré Rudel in Love from Afar, Orestes in Iphigenia in Tauris, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace, Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and the title role in Billy Budd. Recent highlights feature debuts as Chou En-lai in Nixon in China and as Olivier in Capriccio, both at the Metropolitan Opera, and in Offenbach’s Fantasio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. A new CD release features a rare pairing of Wagner and Dietsch’s Le Vaisseau Fantöme (Naïve) with Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble. LEONARDO CAPALBO Roberto Devereux

Italian-American tenor Leonardo Capalbo is making his COC debut. He has appeared at numerous international opera companies including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Berlin Staatsoper, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Köln, Opéra national du Rhin, Oper Leipzig, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Oper Stuttgart, Opéra de Nice, Opéra de 7

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Montréal, New Israeli Opera, Greek National Opera, Miami Opera, New York City Opera, Opera North and at the Glyndebourne and Spoleto Festivals. He has won special praise for roles such as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, the Duke in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La Traviata, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette, the title roles in Roberto Devereux and Candide, Macduff in Macbeth and Quint in The Turn of the Screw. NEIL CRAIGHEAD Nottingham's Servant

An Ensemble Studio graduate, bass-baritone Neil Craighead recently appeared at the COC as Publio in La clemenza di Tito (Ensemble performance) and A Cappadocian in Salome. This season he made his debut with Pacific Opera Victoria as Truffaldino and the Wigmaker in Ariadne auf Naxos and will sing Sarastro in The Magic Flute with Saskatoon Opera. Other COC roles include Sciarrone in Tosca, the Usher in Rigoletto, the First Priest (mainstage) and the Speaker in The Magic Flute (Ensemble), a Youth and Russian Father in Death in Venice, the Oracle and a Trojan Man in Idomeneo, the Official Registrar in Madama Butterfly and, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Japanese Envoy 2 in the COC’s The Nightingale Other Short Fables. GIUSEPPE FILIANOTI Roberto Devereux

Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti is making his COC debut. One of the preeminent lyric tenors of his generation, he has won widespread critical and popular praise. Recent appearances include the title role in The Tales of Hoffmann (Opéra national de Paris, Metropolitan Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper); Nemorino 8

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in L’elisir d’amore (San Diego Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper); and Jacopo Foscari in I due Foscari (Hamburgische Staatsoper). The coming years find him venturing into bold new repertoire and embarking on a new phase of his career with performances of La Bohème, Simon Boccanegra, Pelléas et Mélisande, Mefistofele, Un ballo in maschera and Carmen. He has performed at numerous international opera houses including Teatro alla Scala, Bolshoi Theatre, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real Madrid and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, among others. OWEN McCAUSLAND Lord Cecil

New Brunswick native and COC Ensemble Studio tenor Owen McCausland recently appeared at the COC as the Servant in A Masked Ball, Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Ensemble performance), Parpignol in La Bohème and Reverend Horace Adams in Peter Grimes. Other COC credits include the Second Nazarene in Salome, the Messenger in Il Trovatore as well as singing the title role in La clemenza di Tito for the Ensemble performance, and stepping in to sing the role for several mainstage performances. Credits include Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Opera on the Avalon) and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Centre for Opera Studies in Italy). This season with the COC Mr. McCausland also appears as Juan in Don Quichotte. ALLYSON McHARDY Sara

Canadian mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy, a graduate of the COC Ensemble Studio, last appeared with the

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COC as Juno in Semele. Other COC engagements include Olga in Eugene Onegin, Flosshilde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, and Rossweisse in Die Walküre. Recent highlights include Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri (Calgary Opera); Phèdre in Hippolyte et Aricie (Opera in Concert); Sister Helen Préjean in Dead Man Walking (Opéra de Montréal); the title role in Carmen (Pacific Opera Victoria), Annio in La clemenza di Tito (Opéra national de Paris); and Arcabonne in Amadis de Gaule (Opéra Comique and Château de Versailles). Ms. McHardy’s recordings include the 2014 JUNOnominated Orlando (ATMA), JUNOand ADISQ-nominated La Conversione di Clodoveo (ATMA), Norma, Serinette and A Midwinter Night’s Dream (Centrediscs). SONDRA RADVANOVSKY Elisabetta

Canadian-American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky last appeared at the COC in the title role in Aida. A globally celebrated artist, Ms. Radvanovsky’s recent and upcoming appearances include the title role in Norma (Metropolitan Opera/Met); Amelia in Un ballo in maschera (Wiener Staatsoper); the title role in Tosca (Met, Gran Teatre del Liceu and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); and Strauss’s Four Last Songs (Toronto Symphony Orchestra). She has performed in every major opera house in the world, including Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera, among others. In concert, she has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her debut recording, Verdi Arias, was released in April 2010 on the Delos label.

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CORRADO ROVARIS Conductor

Italian conductor Corrado Rovaris is making his COC debut. He is Music Director at Opera Philadelphia and the Artosphere Festival and also serves as Principal Conductor of I Virtuosi Italiani. He has appeared as a regular guest in many major Italian houses including Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Internationally, he has led productions for Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne, Oper Köln, Oper Frankfurt, and Japan Opera Foundation. He has led productions at Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Glimmerglass Opera. In the 2013/2014 season, Mr. Rovaris conducts Don Pasquale (Santa Fe Opera); Nabucco and Dialogues des Carmélites (Opera Philadelphia); and Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar (Opera Philadelphia and Opera Oviedo). STEPHEN LAWLESS Director

British director Stephen Lawless was last at the COC for Maria Stuarda and Il Trovatore. Credits include Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera); Boris Godonov (Wiener Staatsoper); Il Trovatore, Vanessa, and L’elisir d’amore (Washington Opera); Un ballo in maschera, Il Trovatore, L’elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale and Falstaff (Los Angeles Opera); Capriccio and Boris Godunov (San Francisco Opera); Le nozze di Figaro and La bohème (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Le nozze di Figaro, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, La clemenza di Tito, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Boris Godonov (Dallas Opera); Falstaff and Die Fledermaus (Glyndebourne Festival); L’elisir d’amore and Faust (Santa Fe Opera); 9

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and Der Rosenkavelier (Bolshoi Theatre), among others. Future engagements include Carmen (Santa Fe Opera); William Tell (Graz Opera); Otello and Die Fledermaus (Korean National Opera); and The Flying Dutchman (Washington National Opera). BENOÎT DUGARDYN Set Designer

Belgian set designer Benoît Dugardyn’s previous COC credits include Maria Stuarda and Il Trovatore. Recent and future projects include Carmen and Faust (Santa Fe Opera); Der Rosenkavalier (Bolshoi Theatre); Il Trovatore (Houston Grand Opera); Anna Bolena (Washington National Opera); Otello (Korean National Opera); Salome (Portland Opera); Die Fledermaus (Grand Théâtre de Genève, Glyndebourne Festival and Oper Graz); and Iolanta, Francesca da Rimini and Orfeo ed Euridice (Theater an der Wien). Other credits include The Bartered Bride‚ Tsar’s Bride and L’isola disabitata (Oper Frankfurt); La clemenza di Tito (Dallas Opera‚ Minnesota Opera and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Don Chisciotte (Dutch National Opera and Innsbruck); Il trovatore (Los Angeles Opera‚ Washington National Opera‚ Gothenburg Opera, San Diego Opera‚ Israeli Opera); and Le nozze di Figaro (Glimmerglass Opera). INGEBORG BERNERTH Costume Designer

German costume designer Ingeborg Bernerth last worked with the COC on Maria Stuarda. Recent credits include L’elisir d’amore (Oscarsborg Opera Festival); Don Carlo (Korean National Opera); and Der Ring des Nibelungen (Oper Frankfurt). Other credits include The Tsar’s Bride (Oper Frankfurt); Tosca and Cavalleria rusticana 10

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and Pagliacci (Oscarsborg Opera Festival); Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux and Anna Bolena (Dallas Opera and Washington National Opera); Die Fledermaus (Glyndebourne Festival, Grand Théâtre de Genève and Oper Graz); Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Theater Erfurt); and another Die Fledermaus (China National Centre for the Performing Arts). Future plans include Rigoletto (Oscarsborg Opera Festival), Guillaume Tell (Opera Graz), Salome (Virginia Opera) and a revival of The Flying Dutchman (Washington National Opera). MARK McCULLOUGH Lighting Designer

American lighting designer Mark McCullough last worked with the COC on Maria Stuarda. Credits include La Traviata (Bolshoi Theatre); The Tales of Hoffmann (National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing); Le nozze di Figaro (Metropolitan Opera); Cyrano de Bergerac (Teatro alla Scala); Luisa Miller (Teatro Real); The Queen of Spades (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Der Besuch der Alten Dame (Ronacher Wien); as well as numerous productions with Boston Lyric Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera and San Francisco Opera. Theatre credits include Broadway productions of Outside Mullingar, Jesus Christ Superstar, After Ms. Julie and The American Plan. Mr. McCullough’s work has been seen at the Shakespeare Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; The Old Globe; Aldwych Theatre; Royal Shakespeare Company; and Gate Theatre, among others. SANDRA HORST Chorus Master

Sandra Horst’s most recent COC credits include A Masked Ball, Così fan tutte, La Bohème

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and Peter Grimes. Also at the COC she conducted Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. As director of musical studies at the University of Toronto’s Opera Division, she recently conducted Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. Ms. Horst has served as chorus master for Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Edmonton Opera; a judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions; and music staff of the Juilliard Opera Center, Chautauqua Institution, Boston Lyric Opera, and Banff Centre for the Arts. She was one of the 100 Alumni of Achievement honoured by Wilfrid Laurier University and is a graduate of the COC Ensemble Studio. This spring Ms. Horst is also chorus master for Hercules and Don Quichotte. ERIC WEIMER Assistant Conductor

American conductor Eric Weimer is internationally renowned for his experience as a conductor, pianist and coach. He works regularly with the COC, Metropolitan Opera (Met), Lyric Opera of Chicago (LOC), San Francisco Opera (SFO), and at the Bayreuth Festival. He has prepared some 200 productions, collaborating with most of the great opera conductors and singers of the past 30 years. Mr. Weimer also works frequently with the leading North American opera training programs, including the COC’s Ensemble Studio program, LOC’s Ryan Opera Center, Met’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Program and SFO’s Merola Program. Upcoming conducting engagements include L'elisir d’amore (University of Illinois) and Der fliegende Holländer (Washington National Opera).

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ALLISON GRANT Assistant Director

Allison Grant’s COC credits include choreographer for Die Fledermaus, The Queen of Spades, Dido and Aeneas, Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin. She was assistant director and directed the COC Ensemble for Semele. She recently directed and choreographed Roméo et Juliette (Vancouver Opera) and Die Fledermaus for Edmonton Opera. Last season she choreographed and performed in The Great Gatsby (Theatre London) and directed John Burge’s opera The Auction (world premiere). Other directing credits include Die Zauberflöte (Sarasota Opera); Così fan tutte (Vancouver Opera); L’Italiana in Algeri (Opéra de Montréal); Il matrimonio segreto and Don Giovanni (UofT); and A Meeting of Minds (Canadian Stage). As artistic director of Theatre Athena, she directed Master Class, Private Lives and Bach at Leipzig (Canadian premiere). JENIFER KOWAL Stage Manager

This is Jenifer Kowal’s 22nd season with the COC. Her numerous COC stage managing credits include Così fan tutte, Peter Grimes, Salome, La clemenza di Tito, Die Fledermaus, Semele, Tosca, Rigoletto, Aida, Carmen, The Flying Dutchman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fidelio, War and Peace, Eugene Onegin, Don Carlos, La Traviata, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the Ring Cycle and, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables. She was the production stage manager for Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s Miss Saigon, which also toured to Toronto and Schenectady. Ms Kowal studied theatre at Indiana University. 11

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CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA VIOLIN I Marie bérard, Concertmaster The Concertmaster’s chair has been endowed in perpetuity by Joey and Toby Tanenbaum benjamin bowman, Associate Concertmaster, on leave of absence Aaron Schwebel, Acting Associate Concertmaster bethany bergman, Acting Assistant Concertmaster Anne Armstrong Sandra baron Pamela hinman* nancy Kershaw dominique laplante Yakov lerner Jayne Maddison neria Mayer louise Tardif VIOLIN II Paul Zevenhuizen, Principal Csaba Koczó, Assistant Principal James Aylesworth elizabeth Johnston hiroko Kagawa* boris Kupesic* Aya Miyagawa Alexey Pankratov* Marianne Urke Joanna Zabrowarna VIOLA Keith hamm, Principal Joshua Greenlaw, Assistant Principal Jesse Morrison* nicholaos Padadakis* rhyll Peel Angela rudden* beverley Spotton Yosef Tamir

CELLO bryan epperson, Principal Alastair eng, Associate Principal Paul Widner, Assistant Principal Maurizio baccante, on leave of absence Peter Cosbey* Olga laktionova, on leave of absence Marianne Pack* elaine Thompson BASS Alan Molitz, Principal robert Speer, Assistant Principal Tom hazlitt Paul langley robert Wolanski* FLUTE douglas Stewart, Principal Christine little* Shelley brown PICCOLO Shelley brown OBOE Mark rogers, Principal lesley Young CLARINET James T. Shields, Principal Colleen Cook BASSOON eric hall, Principal William Cannaway elizabeth Gowen, on leave of absence

TRUMPET robert Grim, Principal robert Weymouth TROMBONE Charles benaroya, Principal Ian Cowie BASS TROMBONE herbert Poole TIMPANI Michael Perry, Principal PERCUSSION Trevor Tureski, Principal ryan Scott*

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HORN Joan Watson, Principal, on leave of absence Scott Wevers, Acting Principal* Janet Anderson bardhyl Gjevori Gary Pattison

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E. LOUISE MORGAN SOCIETY The e. louise Morgan Society was created to reflect the vision and commitment of its founder and the members who have created a legacy of leadership, passion and philanthropy in support of the goals of the Canadian Opera Company. each of these donors has contributed a cumulative total of more than one million dollars over the past 15 years. Their support is critical to the company’s success and we are forever indebted to their commitment and generosity. The estate of dr. larry M. Agranove ArIAS: Canadian Opera Student development fund The Gerard & earlaine Collins foundation The late John A. Cook The estate of horst dantz and don Quick Kolter Communities

The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen foundation roger d. Moore e. louise Morgan Tim & frances Price Colleen Sexsmith Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Anonymous (2)

MAJOR GIFTS & SPECIAL PROJECTS The COC offers its sincere thanks to the individuals listed below for their extraordinary support. PRODUCTION UNDERWRITERS Demonstrating their leadership and generosity, these donors have underwritten the COC’s mainstage productions. $500,000 + Jerry & Geraldine heffernan The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen foundation Colleen Sexsmith $100,000 – $499,999 Anne & Tony Arrell Paul bernards Philip deck & Kimberley bozak donald e. O’born david roffey & Karen Walsh $50,000 – $99,999 The Asper foundation

PERFORMANCE AND ARTIST SPONSORS The following donors extend their generous support to individual artists and performances. $100,000 + Jack Whiteside

$25,000 – $49,999 earlaine Collins Patrick & barbara Keenan J. hans Kluge françoise Sutton Judy & Wilmot Matthews Anonymous (1) Up to $25,000 robert Sherrin The Stratton Trust Carol Swallow dr. david Stanley-Porter & dr. Colin McGregor Mailer Ms Kristine Vikmanis & Mr. denton Creighton

ENSEMBLE STUDIO SUPPORTERS Encouraging the next generation of artists, these donors support the COC’s Ensemble Studio. $1,000,000 Peter M. deeb $500,000 – $999,999 The Slaight family foundation $25,000 – $499,999 Anne & Tony Arrell ethel harris & the late Milton e. harris roger d. Moore The Stratton Trust

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Up to $25,000 ArIAS: Canadian Opera Student development fund Marcia lewis brown Margaret harriett Cameron and the late Gary Smith Classical 96.3 fM ninalee Craig Catherine fauquier Patrick hodgson family foundation Peter & hélène hunt Alexandra Jonsson Marjorie & roy linden Jo lander Tom C. logan James nicol & Christine Milne Colleen Sexsmith OCC lasik brian Wilks Anonymous (1)

GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORTERS Providing general program support is critical to the COC’s artistic mission. $1,000,000+ Tim & frances Price $100,000+ Anonymous (2) $25,000 – $99,999 William & Phyllis Waters Up to $24,999 Anonymous (3) 19

A scene from the COC's The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, 2009. Photo: Michael Cooper

Make the most of your opera experience! The President’s Council and Golden Circle programs help make possible many of the company’s activities. New productions, the COC Ensemble Studio program, our education and outreach initiatives – these are just a few of the reasons why President’s Council and Golden Circle gifts are so crucial to our future. President’s Council and Golden Circle members share in the excitement of opera in new ways through events and activities, receive personalized service for ticket purchases and exchanges, and enjoy exclusive use of the Henry N. R. Jackman Lounge at all opera performances. For further information, contact us at presidentscouncil@coc.ca or call 416-363-5801.

*The COC recognizes donations from all individual giving programs with a charitable tax receipt for the maximum amount allowable under the Canada Revenue Agency guidelines.

MAJOR GIFTS & SPECIAL PROJECTS ENDOWMENT SUPPORT Making a gift to the Endowment ensures long-term stability for the COC and its artists. $100,000 + hon. henry n. r. Jackman Anonymous (1) $25,000 – $99,999 Michael W. & Wanda Plachta endowment fund Up to $25,000 Anonymous (1)

LEGACY AND BEQUEST GIFTS

MEMORIAL AND HONORARY DONATIONS

The COC honours the memory of the following patrons whose vision and generosity has provided lasting support.

The COC expresses its sincere appreciation to all donors who have made memorial and honorary donations.

estate of Mary b. Godfrey estate of Judith howard estate of John Gordon hunter estate of ethel berney Jackson‡ estate of borge John Kraglund estate of J.M. (doc) Savage‡ estate of Vivian Treacy‡ estate of hugh Victor Wallace

In Memory of Sam Ajzenstap Jean Coulton Mary roxalyn finch freddy Kremer lotfi Mansouri Aleksandar Petričic Magda riets norma louise rogers helen Sherman

‡ designates funds directed to the COC’s endowment

In Honour of After School Opera Program earlaine Collins Alice and david Court ninalee Craig natalia lobach ruth Manke Kevin Sean Pook Tim and frances Price Mike Scott Colleen Sexsmith letty Snethen diane Visentin Prudence Whiddington As of March 18, 2014

INDIVIDUAL GIVING ANNUAL SUPPORT GOLDEN CIRCLE GOLDEN CIRCLE COMMITTEE Mark Appel Stewart burton Stephen Marshall Judy Matthews frances Price (Chair) Colleen Sexsmith Michele Symons GOLD, $50,000 + Anne & Tony Arrell**** Cecily & robert bradshaw* david G. broadhurst* In memory of Gerard h. Collins**** Jerry & Geraldine heffernan**** The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen foundation**** roger d. Moore**** Arthur & Susan Scace**** Colleen Sexsmith***

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Ambur Braid as Vitellia and Rihab Chaieb (kneeling) as Sesto in the COC Ensemble Studio performance of La clemenza di Tito, 2013. Photo: Michael Cooper

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A scene from the COC's Gianni Schicchi, 2012. Photo: Michael Cooper

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. l’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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DON GIOVANNI MOZART

In this darkly witty COC production, Don Juan – the icon of seduction – is brought to blistering life, his almost supernatural, sexual magnetism undimmed as he faces his inevitable downfall. The star-studded cast features Canadian baritone and COC favourite Russell Braun in the title role. “The primary focus of this production is this idea of free love, which can be very fulfilling for one person as they plow through the lives of dozens of other people and leave carnage in their wake. And this is this last ideal that Don Giovanni clings to, this “Viva la libertà!”; freedom in every aspect, and especially when it comes to relationships. Don Giovanni actually goes where few operas dare to go in terms of relationships, and this production that’s coming to Toronto is very, very challenging for the audience in terms of creating an environment where they come with an open mind and are ready to accept what’s a parallel narrative to the traditional story of Don Giovanni.”

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AIRLINE ICARUS Music by Brian Current | Libretto by Anton Piatigorsky Directed by Tim Albery A modern opera about hubris and technology, the forced intimacy of strangers and flying too close to the sun.

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This is a legend of heroes and gods, forbidden love and revenge, and it sets the stage for the subsequent instalments of Wagner’s most magnificent artistic achievement, the Ring Cycle. Christine Goerke makes her much-anticipated role debut as Brünnhilde with the COC, after which she will sing this ultimate soprano challenge at the Met and Lyric Opera of Chicago. “I have hoped my entire career that I would have an opportunity to sing [Brünnhilde]. She is a strong, strong woman. And she is a righteous woman. And in the end, she is a very passionate woman. She’s the best that all of us have in us. It’s a gift to play a character like that. I couldn’t be more excited to have this be my first shot with this character, with this opera, and with a company that truly loves opera as much as the COC does.”

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MASTERING MASSENET FERRUCCIO FURLANETTO LEADS AN INCOMPARABLE CAST BY CLAIRE MORLEY

ver the past few years, the Canadian Opera Company has been increasingly attracting the world’s best artists to the stage of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, and this spring season may be one of the finest examples of the star-studded roster that choose to work with us. The 2013/2014 season closes with one of the most beautiful tributes to literature’s greatest dreamer in Massenet’s superb Don Quichotte, and making his long-awaited company debut in the title role is one of the greatest basses working today, Italian opera superstar Ferruccio Furlanetto. Alongside Furlanetto is Met favourite mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Dulcinée and Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey as Sancho Panza, who COC audiences will remember from 2011’s Rigoletto. Ferruccio Furlanetto is one of opera’s household names. His big break came in 1986 when he sang the role of King Philip II in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Salzburg Festival, under conductor Herbert von Karajan. His subsequent debuts at major opera houses came quickly, and he is now a regular at La Scala, the Met, and Vienna State Opera. Furlanetto is eager to come to Toronto and make his debut in an opera house about which he has “heard only beautiful remarks.” And we are fortunate since Furlanetto counts Don Quichotte among his all-time favourite roles to sing, not only because it is “vocally splendid and 24

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demanding, but also because of the acting required. The completeness of the role gives the interpreter a unique satisfaction.” When asked why he thinks Don Quichotte is such an iconic character, Furlanetto says “it is because he is what every man should be ideally, at least for a few moments in his life. He is a man full of humanity, love, tenderness and appreciation of life… and the bond between Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza is more profound and human than any other couple in theatre, and is based on those incredible human qualities.” Also making her COC debut is Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova in the role of Dulcinée, the object of Don Quichotte’s affection. Gubanova’s COC and role debut this spring will be followed by a repeat visit next year, when she sings the role of Judith opposite John Relyea in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. When it comes to learning a new role, Gubanova says, “I don’t want to be influenced by any other singer. I buy the score and start from scratch, without listening to a recording. I always pay a lot of attention to phrasing, first playing a line on the piano to find the right direction of the phrase. Only when I am satisfied with that result do I then sing it. I also write all the words down by hand in a notebook; this helps me learn more quickly. And the way that Massenet treats vocal line and the language in Don Quichotte creates a very special feeling of continuity –

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as if the lines are bending freely each time one sings them! Dulcinée is a welcome detour from my usual repertoire. She’s a light-minded, curious, even careless young woman who is enjoying life and discovering new horizons.” Rounding out the top-tier principal cast of Don Quichotte is baritone Quinn Kelsey who sings the role of Sancho Panza, Don Quichotte’s loyal sidekick. He was last here in 2011, when he sang the title role in Rigoletto, and eagerly anticipates his return: “I’m looking forward to coming back, seeing familiar faces, seeing Johannes Debus, and working with Ferruccio again – it’s never bad to work

with that guy on stage! I first met him two years ago in San Francisco when I sang Ezio to his Attila in Verdi’s Attila and then later that year I sang Paolo in Simon Boccanegra to his Fiesco. He’s a sweetheart, and a terribly wonderful colleague. He was so very complimentary when we worked together, and to hear compliments and positive criticism from someone like that was a huge honour. Ekaterina and I did a competition together, and then her career really took off in Europe, and we haven’t yet had the chance to work together, so I’m really looking forward to seeing her again. And I had such a great time in Toronto last time. It was my first time in Canada for work, and I felt very welcomed. Everyone was so hospitable so I really enjoyed myself. When you get to work on a big production like this with people you know, it lessens the anxiety and the stress. The COC is a very comfortable place, and I had a lot of fun. I can’t wait to come back!” n Claire Morley is Associate Manager, Editorial at the Canadian Opera Company.

John Relyea, Malgorzata Walewska and Alex Mansoori in Don Quichotte (Seattle Opera, 2011). All production photos: Rozarii Lynch

FOR FURTHER INSIGHT INTO THE COC’S PRODUCTION OF DON QUICHOTTE, PLEASE READ THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH FERRUCCIO FURLANETTO AND ANATOMY OF AN OPERA, IN THE SPRING ISSUE OF PRELUDE, AVAILABLE ONLINE AT COC.CA/PUBLICATIONS.

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A scene from Don Quichotte (Seattle Opera, 2011).

DON QUICHOTTE OPERA BACKGROUND Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes’ (1547-1616) canonical and influential novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha was published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It recounts the adventures of an elderly Spanish gentleman suffering from madness who declares himself a “knight-errant” and begins travelling throughout Spain with his sidekick, Sancho Panza, in order to right all wrongs and seek fame and honour. Jules Massenet’s opera is based on a greatly simplified theatrical adaptation of Cervantes’ novel, Le chevalier de la longue figure (The knight of the long face, early 1900s), by poet Jacques le Lorrain who died shortly after its first run at the Théatre Victor Hugo in Paris in 1904. Raoul Gunsbourg, intendant of Opéra de Monte Carlo, attended this first showing and was so impressed that he commissioned Massenet to turn it into an opera which subsequently premiered at Monte Carlo in 1910. During his lifetime Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was France’s most celebrated opera composer. Today however, with the exception of Manon (1884) and Werther (1892), his operas are rarely staged. The question remains as to why audiences have been reluctant to draw his operas to their collective bosom. The answer might lie with the fact that despite his reputation as a musical conservative, Massenet’s subject matter can be a touch subversive. Dulcinée for example – the nominal “love interest” in Don Quichotte – enjoys a rather fluid social status. She is unattached, independent and enjoys the attentions of several admirers, exemplifying Massenet’s penchant for female characters who don’t always follow the long-laid-down “rules” – and are thus less likely to become beloved, sentimental audience favourites. Musically, Don Quichotte shows Massenet composing in his more chamber music-like mode. Although he could write operas requiring huge orchestral and choral forces such as 1889’s Esclarmonde with its Wagnerian, Tristan und Isolde-inspired story, he was able to downsize all of this in the interest of telling Don Quichotte’s more intimate, personal story. Many of its numbers are lightly orchestrated, accompanied by solo instruments such as the guitar; or, by solo instrumental sections such as the cellos that dominate Don Quichotte’s final death scene. Visit coc.ca/COCRadio to access listening guides for all our productions. 28

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THE BARBER OF SEVILLE ROSSINI Rossini’s score is a veritable hit parade, with showstoppers and sparkling tunes aplenty, while the creative magic on stage reminds us how much sheer fun can be had at the opera – a confection the entire family can enjoy. The “dynamite” (Opera News) baritone Joshua Hopkins leads a remarkable cast of young and brilliant voices in a colourful and riotous production. “I love the role of Figaro because he has such a quick wit. Whether it’s taking a love note to a suitor or being an actual barber, he does it all, and he does it with aplomb. But he also has a slight dark side to him… he’s like an intelligent chess player, always thinking two moves ahead of anybody else. There’s a lot of great music, a lot of hits – “Largo al factotum” is probably one of the best-known baritone arias in the world – and the overture itself is worth the price of admission.”

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Robert Lepage’s ground-breaking production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung astounded Toronto audiences at its 1993 premiere, establishing the COC as one of the world’s most visionary and compelling opera companies. Superstar Canadian bass John Relyea (The Tales of Hoffmann, 2012) sings the strangely alluring Duke Bluebeard who inhabits a dark, mysterious castle whose secrets he does not want revealed. “Singing Bluebeard at the Four Seasons Centre is going to be big, loud, and beautiful. It’s one of my favourite pieces in that it really is a perfect integration of music and theatre. There’s such a duality to the piece: there’s so much beauty, there’s so much terror. You really feel like you’re discovering a whole style unto itself when you sing Bartók. Erwartung and Bluebeard’s Castle are great companion pieces. They both have a very raw, visceral feeling of expressionism. And they are both penetrating looks into the chaotic nature of the human soul.”

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PATRON INFORMATION AND POLICIES Etiquette Patrons are reminded that R. Fraser Elliott Hall is an extremely lively auditorium and that all audience noise will be accentuated and audible to other patrons. Turn off all electronic devices, avoid talking, coughing, humming, moving loose seats, kicking the backs of seats, rustling programs, and unwrapping candies or cough drops. In consideration of patrons with allergies please avoid wearing strongly perfumed beauty products and fragrances. Please remain in your seat until the performance has completely ended and the house lights have been turned on. Electronic Devices The use of mobile and smartphones and all other electronic devices is extremely disruptive and is strictly prohibited during performances. Cameras/Recording Devices The use of cameras, video cameras or sound-recording devices of any kind is prohibited in R. Fraser Elliott Hall during performances. Any person using an unauthorized recording device while the performance is in progress will be required to surrender or erase any recordings, photographic or digital images and may be asked to leave. No refunds will be issued. Latecomers In the interest of safety and for the comfort of all patrons and performers, latecomers may not enter the auditorium or be seated unless there is a suitable break in the performance (usually intermission). Patrons leaving the auditorium during the performance or returning late after intermission may not be readmitted or may be accommodated in an alternate viewing location. Children and Babes-in-Arms All patrons, including children, must have a ticket for the performance. All children must be seated next to an accompanying adult. Young children should be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. If unable to do so, children and their accompanying adult will be asked to leave the auditorium. Babes-in-arms will not be admitted. Patron Services Located in the Lower Lobby, the following services are available: coat and parcel check, booster seats, back supports, infrared hearing-assistive devices and rental of binoculars, on a first-come, first-served basis. Medical Emergencies and First Aid A house doctor is present at all performances. Please contact an usher if medical services are required. Lost and Found During performances please speak with an usher or visit Patron Services at the Coat Check in the Lower Lobby. Following performances, all lost and found items will be stored at the security desk at Stage Door. Please call 416-363-6671 for information.

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Ticket Services Canadian Opera Company subscriptions and individual tickets are available through COC Ticket Services ONLINE: coc.ca BY PHONE: 416-363-8231 or long distance 1-800-250-4653 Monday to Friday – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. IN PERSON: Four Seasons Centre Box Office 145 Queen St. W. Monday to Saturday – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. or through first intermission Sunday (performance days only) – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or through first intermission The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box Office also services ticketing needs for The National Ballet of Canada and all other Four Seasons Centre events. Group Sales Groups of 10 or more enjoy savings on regular individual ticket prices. For more information or to reserve seats call 416-306-2356. Parking There is parking on a first-come, first-served basis for about 200 vehicles underneath the Four Seasons Centre. The entrance is located on the west side of York Street, south of Queen Street. Additional parking is conveniently located just steps away in the Green P lot underneath Nathan Phillips Square. For directions visit greenp.com. Four Seasons Centre Facility Tours Tours of the Four Seasons Centre now include backstage access! For more information, visit fourseasonscentre.ca. BMO Financial Group Pre-Performance Opera Chats The Canadian Opera Company Volunteer Speakers Bureau offers free, insightful chats about the stories, music and background of all COC performances, 45 minutes prior to each performance in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Food and Beverage Service A pre-order system for intermission refreshments is available at all bars throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room. Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Special Events and Catering The Four Seasons Centre is available for rental for all of your presentation, meeting or special events needs, with spaces accommodating from 20 to 2,000 people and full catering services. For further details visit fourseasonscentre.ca or call 416-363-6671. The Opera Shop Located on the orchestra level of the Isadore and Rosalie Sharpe City Room, the COC's Opera Shop offers a fine selection of opera recordings on CD and DVD, as well as opera-related books, giftware and COC souvenirs.

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