Chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher President Leon Botstein Director Tambra Dillon
Presents
Genoveva Music by Robert Schumann Libretto by Robert Schumann, after L. Tieck and F. Hebbel An opera in four acts with The American Symphony Orchestra Conductor Leon Botstein, Music Director Director Kasper Bech Holten Set Designer Christian Lemmerz Costume Designer Maria Gyllenhoff Lighting Designer Jesper Kongshaug Chorus Master Sharon Bjorndal Music Preparation and Coach Curt Pajer Sung in German with English supertitles
sosnoff theater July 28 at 8 pm July 30 at 3 pm August 2, 4, and 5 at 8 pm Special support for this program is provided by Ms. Emily H. Fisher, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, The Danish Consulate General of New York, Georg Jensen, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, and The American Scandinavian Foundation
BARDSUMMERSCAPE2006
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
Director’s note
Genoveva, Schumann’s only opera, is high-strung German romanticism at its worst—or best. Within its two-hour duration there is a murder, magic mirrors, a ghost, holy visions, numerous intrigues, and more. It is full of fabulous music, and the whole thing feels like a mix of The Magic Flute, Freischütz, and Lohengrin. Today, the story may be difficult to take seriously. But that is only until you give up your modern-day defenses and start loving the fact that this opera is as packed with emotions as a true fairy tale. The main character of Genoveva is not really Genoveva, but Golo, the man who is desperately in love with her. He loves her, and she loves him, without really knowing it. When he declares his love for her, she is so surprised and frightened by her own emotions that she refutes him violently. And he becomes so obsessed with his dream of her that he has to destroy her—and himself. Genoveva is a story about a dream of love that turns into an unending nightmare. It is a story about how difficult it can be to handle the big emotions in life when you are young and confused, and how you can mistake your dream of love for the real thing when you have never experienced love before. And it is a story about obsession, about what happens when you lost touch with reality when the most wonderful emotions in life take hold of you in a way that can ultimately destroy you. For me, that is why we do opera at all. We do it because we need to learn how to handle the big emotions of life. Opera shows us that life is not always rational and logical. It allows us to rehearse our love muscles and hate muscles so that we can be in better shape to cope with the most important and defining moments of our lives when they come along. Opera should be like an emotional fitness center, a place where you can use all your emotional muscles intensely in a short time to get them in shape. But just like it is not enough to go to a fitness center and simply look at all the machines, in our fitness center of Genoveva you have to get onto the machine and work it yourself. You have to invest all your own emotions in trying to imagine what it would be like to go through the extreme situations that happen on stage. You have to engage yourself in order to get anything out of it. Enjoy the pain of other people—go to the opera. I hope you enjoy the workout! Kasper Bech Holten
Scenes
Act I The main courtyard in Siegfried’s castle.
Act II Genoveva’s bedchamber.
Intermission
Act lll A modest room at an inn in Strasbourg.
Act IV I. A desolate, rocky place. II. The main courtyard in Siegfried’s castle.
The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance is strictly prohibited. Running time is approximately two and a half hours with one intermission. Robert Schumann. Genoveva. An opera in four acts. Libretto by the composer. Used by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., sole U.S. agent for Breitkopf & Härtel Weisbaden, publisher.
Cast Hidulfus
Arthur Woodley
Siegfried
Johannes Mannov
Genoveva
Ylva Kihlberg
Golo
Philippe Castagner
Margaretha
Michaela Martens
Drago
Joshua Winograde
Balthasar
Andrew Martens
Caspar
John Wentz
Angelo
Chorus
Conrad
Chorus
Chorus Soprano Charlotte Detrick, Jenna Hall, Jessica Howard, Julie Anne Miller, Christine Nass, Leighanne Saltsman, Alison L. Vidal, Rebecca Whitlow Mezzo Julie De Vaere, Yonah Gershator, Nicole Cherniak Hyde, Brittany Mayer, Elizabeth Moulton, Rachel Nelson, Elizabeth Przybylski ’06, Maila Traczyk Tenor Philip Alongi, Mario Arevalo, Reuven Aristiqta, Heun Chun, Patrick Cook, Robert Dalton Cunningham, Timothy DeWitt, Alex Guerrero, Jeffrey Hoos, Christopher Newcomer Bass Gregory Cantwell, Nicholas Connolly, Albert Donze, Kevin Gardner, Nick Hay, Jonathan B. Keeley, Robert Phillips, Barry Robinson, Daniel Spratlan, John Wentz, Eric Werner, Joshua Wrigley ’08 Stage Manager
Lynn Krynicki
Assistant Stage Manager
Tom Mehan
Assistant Stage Manager
Stephanie Jordan
Supertitle Creator
Cori Ellison
Supertitle Operator
Isabel Martin
Assistant Coach
Nino Sanikidze
Assistant Director
Mette Fogh Hedegaard
Assistant Set Designer
AnneSofie Norn
Assistant Lighting Designer Melissa Mizell Body Special Effects
Christal Schanes
Assistant Costume Designer Elizabeth Pangburn Scenic elements provided by Adirondack Studios. Costumes executed by John Kristiansen New York, Inc. Flying effects provided by ZFX, Inc. Angel wings constructed by Den Design Studio
American Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Leon Botstein, Music Director Assistant Conductors Teresa Cheung Timothy Myers
Violin I Laura Hamilton, Concertmaster Brian Krinke Patricia Davis Wende Namkung John Connelly Ming Yang Lucy Morganstern Mara Milkis David Steinberg Joanna Jenner Violin II Robert Zubrycki, Principal Heidi Stubner Sebu Sirinian Alvin Rogers Ann Gillette Alexander Vselensky Lisa Steinberg Dorothy Han Viola Sarah Adams, Principal Shelley Holland-Moritz Adria Benjamin Martha Brody Sally Shumway Louis Day
Cello Jonathan Spitz, Principal Lanny Paykin Roger Shell Dorothy Lawson David Calhoun Tatyana Margulis
Tuba Andy Bove, Principal
Bass Jordan Frazier, Principal Peter Donovan Jack Wenger Lou Bruno Louise Koby
Offstage:
Flute Diva Goodfriend-Koven, Principal Sato Moughalian Karla Moe Oboe Laura Ahlbeck, Principal Erin Gustafson Clarinet Laura Flax, Principal Marina Sturm Bassoon Charles McCracken, Principal Gilbert Dejean Horn Zohar Schondorf, Principal Will DeVos Bradley Gemeinhardt Kyle Hoyt Trumpet John Dent, Principal Alex Holton Trombone Lisa Albrecht, Principal Keith Green Jeffrey Caswell
Timpani Peter Wilson, Principal
Piccolo Katherine Fink Anne Briggs Clarinet Amy Zoloto Miriam Lockhart Horn Theodore Primis Chad Yarbrough Ronald Sell Molly Sell Trumpet Lorraine Cohen Charles Porter Bass Trombone Dean Plank
Personnel Manager Ronald Sell Librarian Jack Parton
Who’s Who
Leon Botstein Conductor Leon Botstein is music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the radio orchestra of Israel. Radio broadcasts of some of his concerts with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra may be heard in syndication throughout the United States. He is also the founder and co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival. Highlights for the upcoming season include guest engagements with NDR–Hamburg and the BBC Symphony, as well as planned recordings of Bruno Walter’s Symphony No. 1 and Paul Dukas’ opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, which Botstein conducted last season at New York City Opera. He will also make guest appearances in Puerto Rico and Capetown, South Africa. Last season he conducted Die ägyptische Helena, with Deborah Voigt, in Madrid, and made appearances with the Düsseldorf Symphony. He also led a monthlong North American tour with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. His recording with the London Symphony Orchestra of Gavriil Popov’s epic Symphony No. 1 and Shostakovich’s Theme and Variations, Op. 3, received a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Orchestral Performance. Another recording, Chausson’s opera Le roi Arthus with the BBC Symphony for Telarc, has been released to rave reviews. Leon Botstein is the editor of The Musical Quarterly and the author of numerous articles and books. In 2004 he addressed the United Nations on “Why Music Matters” as part of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s lecture series. For his contributions to music he has received the award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Harvard University’s prestigious Centennial Award, as well as the Cross of Honor, First Class, from the government of Austria. Since 1975 he has been president of Bard College in New York. Kasper Bech Holten Director Since 2000 Kasper Bech Holten has been artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera, where, from 2003–06, he directed an acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Ring. In 2005 he presided at the opening of Copenhagen’s new opera house. He has directed more than 45 operas, dramas, musicals, and operettas in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia, Austria, France, and the United States, including
productions of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, La clemenza di Tito, Der Rosenkavalier, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, Pique Dame, Le Grand Macabre, Goya (featuring Plácido Domingo), Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, the Scandinavian premiere of the musical Rent, and the plays A Clockwork Orange and Ivanhoe. He has future productions planned in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Vienna, Moscow, Helsinki, and Oslo. Christian Lemmerz Set Designer Christian Lemmerz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Italy, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been shown in recent solo and group exhibitions in Copenhagen, Aalborg, New York, Antwerp, Toronto, and São Paulo. Lemmerz has also performed, often with the Danish theater group Vaerst, at festivals and theaters, and he has made several films, including The Wake and Voodoo-Europa, both in cooperation with Michael Kvium. Maria Gyllenhoff Costume Designer Born in Sweden and raised in Denmark, Maria Gyllenhoff studied fashion and costume design at the Danish School of Design. Since 2002, she has worked with the Royal Danish Theatre on several productions, including Uncle Vanya, Don Juan, and Details, the latter directed by Bille August and premiering in New York in 2003. In addition to her theater work, which often focuses on plays by Nicky Silver, Howard Barker, and other contemporary playwrights, she has designed costumes for short and feature-length films. Her first work with Kasper Bech Holten was in 1998, on L’elisir d’Amore with Islenska Operan in Reykjavik. In 2003 they worked together on Ivanhoe, produced as a large outdoor event for the Royal Danish Theatre. Jesper Kongshaug Lighting Designer Jesper Kongshaug has designed lighting for theater, opera, ballet, television, public institutions, private firms, and art exhibitions; the latter category includes the 13kilometer work Vinterlys (Winter Light) he created in 1996 for Copenhagen’s year as European Cultural Capital. He has also designed architectural lighting, most recently at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport. His recent work includes Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. His other stage work includes Operation Orfeo (Hotel Pro Forma), The Magic Flute (Boston Lyric Opera), Der Rosenkavalier (Opera de Lyon), Le Grand Macabre (San Francisco Opera), L’Ecole des femmes (Dramaten, Stockholm), and a production of Hair (Theatre Mogador, Paris). Kongshaug teaches at the Danish School of Design and the Danish National School of Theatre.
Sharon Bjorndal Chorus Master Sharon Bjorndal is an assistant chorus master at New York City Opera, where she has assisted on more than 25 productions since 2001, including Carmen, Dead Man Walking, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth, Rigoletto, and Turandot. In January 2004 she served as guest chorus master at the Opera Company of Philadelphia for its production of Don Carlo, and she was also the chorus master for The Nose (2004) and Regina (2005) at Bard SummerScape. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music, she returned to the latter in 2003 to serve as chorus master for a production of Béatrice et Bénédict. She is organist/choirmaster at the Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, and maintains an active career as a collaborative pianist. Curt Pajer Music Preparation, Coach Curt Pajer divides his time between his private vocal coaching studio in New York City and his work with regional opera companies and summer opera festivals. Since 2004 he has been the head of the music staff of Opera Theatre of St. Louis. He has also served as assistant conductor, coach, and rehearsal pianist for the Santa Fe, Dallas, Boston Lyric, Houston Grand, San Diego, Baltimore, Toledo, Colorado, and Shreveport opera companies. Last summer he was assistant music director of the Astoria Music Festival in Astoria, Oregon. Pajer was responsible for the musical preparation of the world premieres of Minoru Miki’s The Tale of Genji at Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin at Dallas Opera; he was the featured solo pianist on the Chandos recording of the latter work. He has also worked as a vocal coach for the Actors Studio of New York’s New School for Social Research and Oberlin College’s Institute of Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, a summer program under the direction of Richard Miller. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and native of Cleveland, Ohio, he received his master and doctor of music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Mette Fogh Hedegaard Assistant Director While earning her degree in theater research from the University of Copenhagen, Mette Hedegaard worked with several children’s theater productions. In 2003 she became assistant director at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. She previously worked with Kasper Bech Holten on Wagner’s Ring cycle in Copenhagen. Philippe Castagner Golo Last season the Canadian-American tenor Philippe Castagner joined Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra for his Lincoln Center debut in Chabrier’s
comic opera Le roi malgre lui. He also made his New York City Opera debut in the title role in Handel’s Acis and Galatea. While maintaining his affiliation with the Lindemann Young Artist Program and singing Beppe in I Pagliacci with the Metropolitan Opera, he won first prize at the 2004–2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Last summer he sang recitals at the Spoleto Festival USA and the Bard Music Festival. Young Concert Artists presented him in recitals of Die Schöne Müllerin in New York, Washington, and Boston with pianist Ken Noda. This season he makes his New York Philharmonic debut in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges with Lorin Maazel conducting. He also appears with the Pittsburgh Symphony and in Vancouver Opera’s production of The Magic Flute. Ylva Kihlberg Genoveva Born and trained in Stockholm, the soprano Ylva Kihlberg was engaged by the Swedish Royal Opera in 1997–98. Since 2000 she has been a member of the Danish Royal Opera in Copenhagen, where she made her debut as Mimi in La Bohème, and where she has subsequently sung the roles of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Lena in Bent Sørensen’s Under the Sky, Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, and a Rhinemaiden and a Walkyrie in Wagner’s Ring. Most recently she has sung the role of Gutrune in Götterdämmerung. Outside the Royal Opera she has appeared in productions of Heise’s King and Marshall and Verdi’s Falstaff at the Danish National Opera in Århus. Johannes Mannov Siegfried Johannes Mannov, a native of Copenhagen, has performed with many conductors, including Mstislav Rostropovich, Yehudi Menuhin, Herbert Blomstedt, Christopher Hogwood, and René Jacobs. The baritone’s repertoire includes the roles of Don Giovanni, Leporello, Guglielmo, Figaro, Count Almaviva, Eugene Onegin, Papageno, Danilo, Marcello, Malatesta, Nick Shadow, and Billy Budd. He has performed at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berliner Philharmonie, Barbican Centre, Tonhalle Zürich, and Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, and at festivals in Perth, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Innsbruck, Milan, and Munich. Mannov has been a guest professor at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and he currently teaches voice at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Andrew Martens Balthasar The bass Andrew Martens recently made debuts at Carnegie Hall and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. He has worked with such notable artists as Seiji Ozawa, Patrick
Summers, Francesca Zambello, and David Kneuss. Martens received a bachelor of arts degree in music and German from Duke University and a master’s degree and graduate diploma in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory. He has been an apprentice artist at the Central City Opera, and he pursued an artist diploma in opera from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. A member of the San Francisco Opera Center’s Young Artist Program, Merola, and the Western Opera Theatre, he has toured the United States and Japan. Michaela Martens Margaretha Fisher Center audiences heard Michaela Martens sing the role of Anna Ahkmatova in the world premiere of Mel Marvin’s Guest from the Future at the 2004 Bard Music Festival. Known for her work in 20th-century opera, Martens has sung in Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, Weisgall’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, all with the Opera Festival of New Jersey, as well as Philip Hagemann’s Roman Fever at Lincoln Center. Her recent engagements include the role of Queen in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco at both the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and New York’s Lincoln Center Festival. Martens is a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; she made her New York City concert debut in the Metropolitan Opera Winners’ Concert under the baton of Sir Charles Mackerras. The Seattle native has also received awards from the George London, Puccini, and DeRosa foundations. Next season she will make her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Contessa in Andrea Chenier and in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The Last Emperor. John Wentz Caspar John Wentz sang the role of John Bagtry in Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, a centerpiece of SummerScape 2005 at the Fisher Center. His recent performances include the role of Colline in La Bohème, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Balthasar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Basilio in The Barber of Seville, and Sam in Un ballo in maschera. He has performed in festivals in Italy, Spain, Germany, and Israel. A frequent soloist in oratorio, Wentz has performed Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, and John Harbison’s Flight into Egypt. He is a featured performer on the nationally syndicated educational television series The Magical Theater of Music. His recordings include Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Richard Hickox.
Joshua Winograde Drago Bass Joshua Winograde is from Los Angeles. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School and was a member of the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio for three years. Since leaving Houston, Winograde has sung as a guest artist with companies such as New York City Opera (Alcina, La Bohème, The Little Prince); Houston Grand Opera (The Magic Flute, Lysistrata, The Little Prince, Falstaff, Romeo and Juliet); Opera Theatre of St. Louis (The Barber of Seville); Austin Lyric Opera (Il trovatore); Los Angeles Philharmonic (Mozart’s Requiem); Phoenix Symphony (Mozart’s Requiem); Kansas City Symphony (Handel’s Messiah); Wolf Trap Opera (Volpone); Virginia Opera (Le nozze di Figaro); Santa Barbara Opera (Faust); and Chautauqua Opera (Don Giovanni). His upcoming engagements include Boris Godunov at Amsterdam’s Reisopera, Rigoletto at Santa Barbara, and Billy Budd at Houston Grand Opera. Arthur Woodley Hidulfus The American bass Arthur Woodley has been acclaimed for his performances in both opera and concert. He frequently appears with the Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Dallas Opera, and Cincinnati Opera. His roles have ranged from Banquo in Macbeth to Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress. He has a distinguished history singing the role of Porgy in Porgy and Bess, both in staged productions and in concert versions in Santa Cecilia, Rome, and the Bregenz and Savonlinna summer festivals. In concert, he has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, and American Composers Orchestra, as well as with the San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, and Baltimore symphony orchestras and on tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. This season, he made his debut at the San Francisco Opera as Rocco in Fidelio. Next season he returns to the Seattle Opera as Achillas in Guilio Cesare; to Kentucky Opera as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermor; and to Pittsburgh Opera in the role of Dansker in Billy Budd. American Symphony Orchestra The American Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1962 by Leopold Stokowski. As part of Lincoln Center Presents Great Performers, the American Symphony performs thematically organized concerts at Avery Fisher Hall, linking music to the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, often in collaboration with museums and other cultural institutions. With its bold programming, innovative presentation, and commitment to music education, the American Symphony Orchestra seeks to make great music a relevant, accessible, and enjoyable experience for all kinds of listeners.
In addition to its main subscription series at Lincoln Center, the American Symphony Orchestra performs in a lecture/concert series with audience interaction at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre called Classics Declassified. It is also the resident orchestra of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it performs to capacity audiences in a winter concert series as well as in the summer for the SummerScape Festival and Bard Music Festival. Its music education programs extend through New York, New Jersey, and Long Island. The American Symphony Orchestra has toured extensively and made numerous recordings and broadcasts. Its most recent recording, of music by Copland, Sessions, Perle, and Rands in a special tribute album to legendary American music patron Francis Goelet, is issued by New World Records. The Orchestra also recently recorded music of Ernst von Dohnányi for Bridge Records. Its recording of Richard Strauss’s opera Die ägyptische Helena with Deborah Voigt was released in 2003 by Telarc to outstanding acclaim. This recording joins the American Symphony’s recording of Strauss’s Die liebe der Danae, also from Telarc. Other recordings with Leon Botstein include Franz Schubert: Orchestrated on the Koch International label, with works by Joachim, Mottl, and Webern, and, on the Vanguard Classics label, Johannes Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (1860). The American Symphony inaugurated São Paulo’s new concert hall and has made several tours of Asia and Europe. It also has a long history of appearing in charitable and public benefits for such organizations as Sha’are Zedek Hospital, the Jerusalem Foundation, and PBS. Next season the Orchestra will perform in an outdoor production of Peer Gynt in Central Park with the cast of the Peer Gynt Festival of Norway.
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Clark Ferguson and Suzy Wolberg David and Tracy Finn Martha J. Fleischman Luisa E. Flynn John P. Foreman Allan Freedman Emily Fuller Samantha Free Susan Howe Gillespie Anne Gillis Gilberte Vansintejan Glaser and Willilam A. Glaser Mims and Burton Gold Maxwell H. and Victoria Goodwin Thurston Greene Dorothy and Leo Hellerman David O. Herman Juliet Heyer Elizabeth D. and Robert Hottensen Neil Isabelle Susan Jonas Rev. Canon Clinton R. Jones ’38 John Kander Richard P. Kelisky
Donna Kermeen David and Janet E. Kettler Diana Niles King Thea Kliros Alfred J. Law and Glenda A. Fowler Law Beth Ledy E. Deane and Judith S. Leonard Charles S. Maier Harvey Marek Ellen McGrath PhD Margaret M. and Raymond E. Meagher Jr. Sumner Milender Deborah D. Montgomery Arvia Morris Ann Lawrance Morse Polly Murphy Harold J. and Helen C. Noah Marilyn and Peter Oswald Francine Pascal Gary S. Patrik Ellen and Eric Petersen Dr. Alice R. Pisciotto
Miles Price Robert B. Recknagel George Reeke and Gail Hunt Reeke John and Claire Reid Sheila Sanders Jay Marc Schwamm Frederick W. Schwerin Jr. Anne Selinger Reginald W. Smith Joel Stein Dr. Sanford Sternlieb Nadine Bertin Stearns Jessica and Peter Tcherepnine Robert G. Thomas Janeth Lloyd Thoron Mark Trujillo Dorsey Waxter Joanna G. and Jonathan M. Whitcup Amy K. White Marietta W. Whittlesey John H. Whitworth Jr. Betsy Zimring
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Advisory Board Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair Leon Botstein+ Carolyn Marks Blackwood Stefano Ferrari
Harvey Lichtenstein Peter J. Linden, M.D. Robert Martin+ James H. Ottaway, Jr. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+
David E. Schwab II ’52 Martin T. Sosnoff Toni Sosnoff +ex officio
Bard Music Festival Board of Directors Robert C. Edmonds ’68, Chair Kenneth R. Blackburn Leon Botstein+ Schuyler G. Chapin John A. Dierdorff Jeanne Donovan Fisher Ines Elskop Christopher H. Gibbs+ Jonathan K. Greenburg Paula K. Hawkins
Anne E. Impellizzeri Mimi Levitt Peter Kenner ’66 Thomas O. Maggs Robert Martin+ Joanna M. Migdal Lucy Miller Kenneth L. Miron Christina A. Mohr James H. Ottaway Jr.
David E. Schwab II ’52 H. Peter Stern Felicitas S. Thorne Tucker Taylor Anthony Viscusi Siri von Reis Rosalind C. Whitehead E. Lisk Wyckoff + ex officio
Fisher Center Staff (as of May 17, 2006) Administration Tambra Dillon, Director Nancy Cook, Managing Director Susana Meyer, Associate Director Debra Pemstein, Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs
Mark Primoff, Director of Communications Stephen Millikin, Development Manager Kimberly Keeley-Henschel, Budget Director Jeannie Schneider, Administrative Assistant
Production Robert Airhart, Production Manager Abigail Trarbach, Associate Production Manager— Spiegeltent Paul LaBarbera, Sound and Video Engineer
Andrew Cappelli, Technical Director—Sosnoff Theater John Starmer, Technical Director—Theater Two Aaron Sporer, Lighting Director Stephen Dean, Stage Operations Supervisor Bonnie Anthony, Production Manager Assistant Evan Pritts ’08, Sound and Video Engineer Assistant Carpenters Larry I. Hall, Scene Shop Manager Michael Pizzi, Head Flyman—Sosnoff Theater Jamie Del Pino, Master Carpenter—Sosnoff Theater Kent Cyr, Master Carpenter—Theater Two Jeremiah Brown Todd Renadette Joseph Puglisi Dan Gibbons Christian Crum Joshua Foreman Kelly O’Donohugh Terrence Ring J. Michael Zally Sean Maloney ’07 Owen Conlow ’06 Props Scott Brodsky, Property Director Susan Barras, Property Master—Theater Two Rick Berger, Assistant Property Master— Sosnoff Theater Electrics Jeremy Wahlers, Master Electrician—Sosnoff Theater Justin McClintock, Master Electrician—Theater Two Brandon Koenig, Assistant Master Electrician—Sosnoff Theater Todd Giordano, Assistant Master Electrician— Theater Two Brenda Lijewski, Light Board Programmer— Sosnoff Theater Anup Aurora, Light Board Programmer— Theater Two
Jodi Clemente Kuuipo Curry Julia Guarino ’07 Kate Conover ’06 Sound and Video David Cook, Live Sound Engineer Kelly Duncan, Sound and Video Supervisor— Sosnoff Theater Amy Altadonna, Sound and Video Supervisor— Theater Two Matt Cameron Ted Hudson Sebastian Schinkel ’06 Zach Dunham ’08 Jonathan Sargent ’08 Costumes Maureen Schell, Costume Shop Manager Elizabeth Pangburn, Assistant Costume Shop Manager Claudia Diaz, Draper Molly Farley, Stitcher Mary Grusak, Wardrobe Supervisor—Genoveva Jill Sunderland, Wardrobe Supervisor—Theater Two Courtney Baskin Charles Peden Rob Mihalko ’07 Hair and Makeup Melanie Steele, Hair and Makeup Director Maryanne Davis Heather Bickham Shirin Khosravi ’06 SpiegelMaestri Nik Quaife, SpiegelMaestro, Venue Manager Maedhbh Ni Chonuladh, SpiegelMistress, Assistant Manager Josh Abrahams, Music Director Company Management Kate Pfeffer, Company Manager Daniel Bieber ’07, Assistant Company Manager Jacob Nabel ’07, Assistant Company Manager Markus Paminger ’07, Assistant Company Manager
Mark Perloff ’07, Assistant Company Manager Ashleigh McCord ’08, Assistant Company Manager Bill Szigethy, Driver Front of House Derrick Mead ’03, Box Office Manager Austin Miller ’06, House Manager Elena Batt, Assistant Box Office Manager Manon Hutton-Dewys ’06, Box Office Assistant Grace Leavitt ’07, Box Office Assistant Nathan Madsen ’06, Box Office Assistant Rafi Nulman ’09, Box Office Assistant Tom Shepherd ’07, Box Office Assistant Alex Weinstein ’07, Box Office Assistant Christina Reitemeyer ’07, Assistant House Manager Sarah Elia ’06, Assistant House Manager Joshua Tyler ’06, Assistant House Manager Christopher Hazenbush, Assistant House Manager Facilities Mark Crittenden, Facilities Manager Ray Stegner, Assistant to the Managing Director Doug Pitcher, Building Operations Coordinator Sean Smith ’07, Security Mike Rich ’07, Security Johanna Klotz ’06, Security Jody Cerasano, Housekeeping Janet Arsenault, Housekeeping Stana Kvrgic, Housekeeping Piano Technician Mark Moriarty
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York