BITTER SWEET August 4–14, 2011 the richard b. fisher center for the performing arts at bard college
About The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, an environment for world-class artistic presentation in the Hudson Valley, was designed by Frank Gehry and opened in 2003. Risk-taking performances and provocative programs take place in the 800-seat Sosnoff Theater, a proscenium-arch space; and in the 220-seat Theater Two, which features a flexible seating configuration. The Center is home to Bard College’s Theater and Dance Programs, and host to two annual summer festivals: SummerScape, which offers opera, dance, theater, operetta, film, and cabaret; and the Bard Music Festival, which celebrates its 22nd year in August, with “Sibelius and His World.” The Center bears the name of the late Richard B. Fisher, the former chair of Bard College’s Board of Trustees. This magnificent building is a tribute to his vision and leadership. The outstanding arts events that take place here would not be possible without the contributions made by the Friends of the Fisher Center. We are grateful for their support and welcome all donations.
©2011 Bard College. All rights reserved. Cover Cover of the score published in London, 1929. Lebrecht Music & Arts Inside Back Cover ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher President Leon Botstein Honorary Patron Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Finland
Bitter Sweet An operetta by Noël Coward Directed by Michael Gieleta Conducted by James Bagwell
Theater Two August 4, 6, and 11 at 8 pm August 7 at 7 pm August 5, 10, and 12–14 at 3 pm
Running time for this performance is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission. Bitter Sweet ©1929. This version of Bitter Sweet has been prepared by Michael Gieleta with permission of the Noël Coward Estate. ©N.C. Aventales 2011 as successor in title to The Noël Coward Estate. Copyright Agent Alan Brodie Representation Ltd. www.alanbrodie.com Bitter Sweet is produced by arrangement with tams-witmark music library, inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022. The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance is strictly prohibited.
Bitter Sweet Cast (in order of appearance) Lady Shayne
Siân Phillips
Dolly
Marianne Rendon
Vincent
Joel Johnstone
Henry
Brian Maxsween
Sarah/Sari
Sarah Miller
Carl
William Ferguson
Lord Shayne
Ryan Speakman
Hugh/Tranisch
Justin Randolph
Sir Arthur/Captain Lutte
Joshua Jeremiah
Mrs. Millick
Claire Simard
Manon
Amanda Squittieri
Herr Schlick
David Schnell
London Girls
Faylotte Crayton, Elana Gleason, Meredith Hudak, Claire Simard
London Boys
Grant Clarke, David Schnell, Eric Stephenson
Vienna Girls
Jennifer Feinstein, Amanda Yachechak, Amanda Joy Loth
Four Footmen
Alex Kasser, James Lombardino, Mike Longo, Brian Maxsween
Music Arranger and Preparer
Jack Parton
Choreographer
Christopher Caines
Set Designer
Adrian W. Jones
Costume Designer
Gregory Gale
Lighting Designer
Christopher Akerlind
Hair and Makeup Designer
Ashley Ryan
Fight Director
Ron Piretti
Assistant Director
Jack Furness
Music Codirector
James Bassi
Dialect Coach
Elizabeth Smith
Stage Manager
Jason Kaiser
Assistant Stage Manager
Kevin Robert Fitzpatrick
Pianist
Ming Aldrich-Gan ’10
Student Production Assistants Thomas Cunningham, Eva Steinmetz ’11 Casting Director Makeup provided by MAC 4
Holly Buczek
Orchestra Flute/Piccolo
Sato Moughalian
Reed One
Kenneth Dybisz
Reed Two
Julie Ferrara
Reed Three
Jay Hassler
Trumpet/Fleugelhorn
Dominic Derasse
French Horn
Sara Della Posta
Trombone
Bruce Eidem
Violin
Roy Lewis
Cello
Andrew Kim
Bass/Personnel Manager/ Contractor
Jeffrey Levine
Drums/Percussion
Glenn Rhian
Piano
James Bassi
The 2011 SummerScape season is made possible in part through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Consulate General of Finland in New York and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Additional support has been provided by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, and The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. This season is also presented thanks to the generous support of the Boards of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center. The producers wish to thank the NoĂŤl Coward Estate and Barry Day, Tom Carroll Scenery, 4Wall Entertainment, GoodSpeed Muscials Costume Collection, Western Costume Co., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and tdf Costume Collection for their assistance with this production. Special thanks to Will Pomerantz.
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Scenes Act I, Scene 1 London, 1969: an evening reception at Lady Shayne’s house in Grosvenor Square Entangled in a love triangle and soon to be married, Dolly discovers a role model in the defiant Lady Shayne, who relates the story of her unorthodox adventures in love and music. Act I, Scene 2 London, 1920: afternoon at the Millick family home in Belgrave Square A youthful Sarah Millick—the future Lady Shayne—has to learn rapidly that love and marriage are two distinct phenomena. Her secret love for music (and her music teacher, Carl) cannot be reconciled with the fate preordained for her by her family. Act I, Scene 3 London, 1920: evening at the Millick family home Sarah, increasingly resentful of her present life, takes charge of her future and abandons London for Vienna to pursue a singing career and the man she loves. Act II, Scene 1 Vienna, 1923: a morning rehearsal at Herr Schlick’s Café Cabaret Sarah and Carl, now married, confront the daunting reality of a bohemian existence: working for a down-at-heels cabaret, their ongoing concerns about money force them to compromise both their music and their ethics.
INTERMISSION
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Act II, Scene 2 Vienna, 1923: an evening of entertainment at Herr Schlick’s Café Cabaret Sarah and Carl’s last evening at Schlick’s before their longed-for move to Budapest. Act III, Scene 1 London, 1938: an afternoon gathering at Lord Shayne’s house in Grosvenor Square Sarah’s triumphant return to London and her first encounter with her native milieu in nearly 20 years. Lord Shayne’s warm affection shields Sarah from the flood of questions and speculation about her past. Act III, Scene 2 London, 1969: the continuation of the evening reception at Lady Shayne’s house in Grosvenor Square As Lady Shayne concludes the story of her insubordinate life, Dolly and her friends are left to make their own decisions concerning life, love, and music.
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Notes on the Program Noël Coward: Bitter Sweet by Richard Aldous No doubt many in the audience today will at some time or another have endured the tedium of a New York City traffic jam. Few of us, however, will have put the experience to such good use as Noël Coward did in 1929. Trapped in a taxi during rush hour after a matinee performance, Coward had the melody to “I’ll See You Again”—the hit song of Bitter Sweet—pop straight into his head. “How can a theme come to me complete like that?” he asked years later. “How can it be accounted for? Where does it come from?” The song turned out to be one of the smash hits of his career. “Brass bands have blared it, string orchestras have swooned it, Palm Court quartets have murdered it, barrel organs have ground it out in London squares and swing bands have tortured it beyond recognition,” he wrote. “And I am still very fond of it and very proud of it.” Coward was in New York performing in the Broadway production of his hugely successful revue, This Year of Grace! The idea for Bitter Sweet had come to him the previous summer while staying with friends in Surrey, England. Listening to a new gramophone recording of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, he had been captivated by the sounds of old Vienna. Driving back to London after his weekend in the country, he stopped off with his costume designer, Gladys Calthrop, at Wimbledon Common, where the two sat under a tree to sketch out the entire plot of what would become Bitter Sweet. The romantic operetta opened on July 12, 1929, at His Majesty’s Theatre, London (after a preview in Manchester), and ran for 697 performances. It subsequently opened on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 5, 1929, and ran for 159 performances. “Success, huge success,” wrote Coward’s producer, C. B. Cochran, after the London opening. “I will make money at last.” Among the many admirers of the London production of Bitter Sweet was the British matinee idol Ivor Novello, who found it a “sheer joy from beginning to end.” The artist Max Beerbohm enjoyed the show so much that he made a series of drawings of the principal characters, which he sent to Coward with annotations. With a triumph secured in London, Coward returned to New York in the late summer of 1929 to prepare the Broadway production. There he found the famous impresario Florenz Ziegfeld waiting with concerns and, worse, ideas of his own. The show was too ”low-key” for Broadway. How about adding some Ziegfeld Girls from the Follies revue to brighten
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things up a bit? Coward, exhibiting his steelier side, refused point-blank—leading to a huge row and threats of withdrawal. Bitter Sweet ultimately opened to rave reviews and full houses. “THE THEATRE CANNOT DIE AS LONG AS IT HAS A GENIUS LIKE YOU,” cabled Ziegfeld. “They wanted me to alter every-
thing and I wouldn’t,” Coward reflected wearily. ”Now of course they’re delighted and say they knew it was a success all along.” Coward would be less fortunate in preventing others from ruining his ideas when it came to the 1940 MGM film version of Bitter Sweet, which he thought, “on all counts, far and away the worst picture I have ever seen.” The lead actors “sing relentlessly from beginning to end looking like a rawhide suit case and a rocking horse respectively.” The result was something that “no human tongue could ever describe.” Part of the Broadway success of Bitter Sweet lay in its timing. The show’s irreverent cynicism, mixed with emotional if guarded sentimentality, seemed as good a response as any to the Wall Street Crash, which had taken place just weeks before the opening night. “I’ve caused more of a sensation in America this time than ever before,” Coward wrote to his mother. “Bittersweet [sic] is the only show playing to capacity during this appalling Stock Market crash.” In fact, Bitter Sweet would mark a new direction in Coward’s work— more sentimental and escapist for an age when most people had more than enough to worry about in their real lives to want any unpleasantness in the theater. The apparent effortlessness surrounding the creation of Bitter Sweet seems quintessentially Noël Coward. Of course beautiful tunes and witty lyrics were conjured without much in the way of perspiration. Anything else would have been inelegant. It was all of a piece with the immaculate image he cultivated, illustrated by the jib of his Savile Row suits, the cigarette in its holder held at a jaunty angle, and a poised, amused demeanor that always gave the appearance of another witticism about to be delivered. It should hardly be surprising that Coward’s relaxed charm masked the prodigious effort that went into his success. Born in the last weeks of the 19th century, Coward was the latest of late Victorians, and he inherited the characteristic work ethic of that age. Moreover, for all his upper-class mannerisms, he was a lower-middle-class boy from suburban Teddington, in the outer boroughs of West London. Escape came not through connections but from talent married to discipline. Over the course of his long career, Coward would write more than 50 plays and shows, and hundreds of songs. The fact that his industry manifested itself as breezy and effortless made the achievement all the more remarkable. Bitter Sweet gave that nonchalant demeanor its best line. In the song “If Love Were All,” the café singer Manon observes: “But I believe that since my life began, / The most I’ve had is just, / A talent to amuse.” This assessment soon became something of a signature 9
line for Coward himself. In 1972, “If Love Were All” would be the last song he ever performed in public. The line “A talent to amuse” was later engraved on his memorial stone in the Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey. Even in death, there was no need to take life too seriously. Yet in Bitter Sweet itself, as for Coward, “If Love Were All” was only half the story. Manon’s world-weariness is perfectly balanced by the sentimental romanticism of the heroine, Sarah/Sari. She asks the show’s key question, in the song “What Is Love?” Manon provides one answer: “The more you give your trust, / The more you’re bound to lose.” Whatever love may or may not be, it is not enough. However, in the end it is Sari who provides the answer to her own question, that love always endures. Moreover, in “I’ll See You Again,” she has the song to prove it. Sari is a classic romantic heroine, but there is also another love—that which dare not speak its name—surreptitiously on display in Bitter Sweet. Three years earlier, in 1926, Coward had written a play, Semi-Monde, that included characters who were explicitly homosexual. The play was too controversial to stage in either London or New York (it was finally produced in Glasgow in 1977), but Coward returned to the theme more carefully in Bitter Sweet. The song “Green Carnation” paraded the “Pretty boys, witty boys . . . Haughty boys, naughty boys . . . Faded boys, jaded boys” who so perplexed the “bulldog nation.” It was daring of Coward in the context of Britain in the 1920s, when homosexuality was still an imprisonable offense, to hint at his own sexuality by putting such overt “camp” on stage. (“I thought men like that shot themselves,” King George V once observed.) He got away with it because the song was an obvious parody of Oscar Wilde, who had worn the flower in question. “So that was alright, then,” remarks Barry Day, the leading Coward scholar. It was another example of how the talent to amuse allowed Coward to hide in plain sight. Such deft lightness of touch exhibited over half a century of writing and performing resulted in a body of work that, in addition to its critical and commercial success, was remarkable for its breadth and ambition. Lord Mountbatten—the last Viceroy of India and the naval hero on whom Coward based his patriotic film In Which We Serve—elegantly made this point at Coward’s 70th birthday party, in 1969. “There are probably greater painters than Noël, greater novelists than Noël,” he said, “greater librettists, greater composers of music, greater singers, greater dancers, greater comedians, greater tragedians, greater stage producers, greater film directors, greater cabaret artists, greater TV stars. . . . If there are, they are 14 different people. Only one man combined all these different talents—The Master. Noël Coward.” Richard Aldous, the author of The Lion and the Unicorn, is Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature at Bard College.
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Who’s Who Michael Gieleta Director Michael Gieleta is the artistic director of the Cherub Company London. Most recently, he directed the premiere of Peter Nichols’s Lingua Franca in New York and London, as well as the acclaimed production of Bed˘rich Smetana’s The Kiss at Wexford Festival Opera. His London theater productions include works by Tom Stoppard, Stephen Sondheim, Nilo Cruz, Glyn Maxwell, and Peter Quilter, among others. As an assistant, he has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Francesca Zambello, David McVicar, and Michael Boyd (the West End, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, respectively). Gieleta’s opera credits include productions at the State Theatre (Pretoria), Cape Town Opera, Opera Integra, Opera Brava, and the Royal College of Music. He also directs at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His production of Roman Statkowski’s Maria will open at Wexford this fall, and he looks forward to the American premiere of The Kiss at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2012. Gieleta trained at the University of Oxford and the National Theatre Studio. www.michaelgieleta.com
James Bagwell Conductor James Bagwell maintains an active schedule as a conductor of orchestral, choral, musical theater, and operatic repertoire. He has been director of choruses for the Bard Music Festival since 2003, conducting and preparing a wide variety of choral works. In addition to his work as conductor for Bitter Sweet, he is chorus master of the SummerScape production Die Liebe der Danae. In 2009, he was appointed music director of The Collegiate Chorale and principal guest conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. He has prepared The Concert Chorale of New York for a number of appearances, most notably, the Mostly Mozart Festival. In addition to his work in New York, he is music director of the May Festival Youth Chorus in Cincinnati, and was for 10 seasons music director of Light Opera Oklahoma, where he conducted some 25 productions. He has taught at Bard College since 2000, where he is director of the Music Program and codirector of its Graduate Conducting Program.
William Ferguson Carl William Ferguson made his debut with the Santa Fe Opera in 2006, as Caliban in the North American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest. He is a regular artist at the New York City Opera, where his performances have included the title role in Candide, NankiPoo in The Mikado, and the Funeral Director in A Quiet Place, among many others. For The Metropolitan Opera, he has performed Beppe in I pagliacci as well as roles in Le nozze di Figaro and The Magic Flute (under the baton of James Levine). Other selected credits include Andres in Wozzeck (Opera Festival of New Jersey), Ferrando in Così fan tutte (The
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Aspen Music Festival), Pang in Turandot (Opera Company of Philadelphia), the Sailor in Dido and Aeneas (Gotham Chamber Opera), and the title role in Albert Herring (Music Academy of the West). He has also performed at Carnegie Hall with The Opera Orchestra of New York, as Nick in La fanciulla del West and as Laërte in Mignon. A compelling interpreter of new music, Ferguson sang Bentley Drummle in Dominick Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Fire at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and performed in the world premieres of Anthony Davis’s Wakonda’s Dream (Opera Omaha) and Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry (Peak Performances at Montclair). While in St. Louis, he performed the role of Hippolyte in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie as a last-minute replacement, singing “with grace, and striking self-possession” (Opera News). Ferguson is a passionate concert and recital performer, with a repertoire that ranges from the baroque masters to Schubert, Schumann, and Rorem. He has appeared with (among others) The American Symphony Orchestra, BBC Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (England), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Musica Sacra New York, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands). He has performed extensively with The Marilyn Horne Foundation and The New York Festival of Song, and has been showcased in chamber programs and recitals across the United States—including, in 2007, at the Bard Music Festival. Among the numerous grants and awards Ferguson has received was the 2003 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital Award granting him a New York recital debut in Alice Tully Hall. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he holds both B.M. and M.M. degrees from The Juilliard School.
Joshua Jeremiah Sir Arthur/Captain Lutte Baritone Joshua Jeremiah was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His career highlights include Billy Bigelow in Carousel (Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center), Junior (cover) in A Quiet Place (New York City Opera; VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab), Young Man in The Last Romance (Old Globe Theater), Alidoro in La cenerentola (Glimmerglass Opera), Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, La Rocca in Un giorno di regno and the title role in the world premiere of John Musto’s Valpone (Wolf Trap Opera Company), Silvio in I Pagliacci (Spokane Opera), and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra). Jeremiah has performed in concert with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Little Orchestra Society of New York, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Baroque Music Ensemble. He trained at the Shenandoah Conservatory and received an M.M. in vocal studies and an Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. The Wolf Trap Opera Company recording of Valpone, with Jeremiah in the title role, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010.
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Joel Johnstone Vincent Joel Johnstone is proud to be making his debut at the Fisher Center. His theater credits include Garry Marshall’s Everybody Say Cheese (Falcon Theatre, Los Angeles), Rules of the Universe (Outstanding Play of the Year, New York Innovative Theatre Awards), Lanford Wilson’s A Sense of Place (New York premiere), Fall Forward (Rising Phoenix Rep), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Twelfth Night (London). Johnstone graduated with a degree in theater from Fordham University at Lincoln Center and spent the better part of a year studying abroad at the British American Drama Academy, in both Oxford and London. He resides and works on both coasts. Recent television and film credits include Spinning into Butter, Criminal Minds, Urban Gothic (UK/Bravo), and Magritte Moment. He also just completed writing, directing, and starring in his own short film, The Pilgrim & The Private Eye, out late this year. www.joeljohnstone.com
Sarah Miller Sarah/Sari Sarah Miller recently appeared as Verena in the Center for Contemporary Opera’s world premiere of The Secret Agent, conducted by Sara Jobin and directed by Sam Helfrich; as Olga in Eugene Onegin; and in the title role in Carmen, under the baton of Richard Barrett. Other roles include Xenia in the Florida Grand Opera production of Boris Godunov opposite James Morris, Tisbe in La cenerentola, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte, Charlotte in A Little Night Music, and, with the New York Chamber Opera, Serafina in Il campanello and the 2nd Woman / Attendant in Dido and Aeneas, both conducted by Lucy Arner. Additional conductors with whom she has performed leading and featured roles include Julius Rudel, Richard Bonynge, Stewart Robertson, and Glen Cortese. Miller has received two Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Encouragement Awards. She holds a B.A. in art history from Columbia College, Columbia University, and in 2011 will complete her M.M. at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.
Siân Phillips Lady Shayne Siân Phillips trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was awarded the Bankcroft Gold Medal. On stage, she has appeared in A Little Night Music (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis), Juliet and Her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic), Calendar Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre, tour, and the West End), Les liaison dangereuses (American Airlines Theater), Paul Rudnick’s Regrets Only (Manhattan Theatre Club), Rockaby (Gate Theatre, Dublin; Barbican Centre), Great Expectations (Royal Shakespeare Company), “Divas at the Donmar” (cabaret), Pam Gems’s Marlene (Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk Award nominations), House of America, A Little Night Music (Olivier Award nomination), and Gems’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts (Artist of the Year Award nomination). She has appeared on Broadway in An Inspector Calls, Marlene, and My Old Lady. Her West End
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credits include Maxibules, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Hedda Gabler, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Man and Superman and The Night of the Iguana (Evening Standard Award nominations), Pal Joey (SWET Award nomination), Major Barbara, The Manchurian Candidate, The Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square, Gigi, and Painting Churches. Phillips has won many awards for her work on television—including, of course, her BAFTA-winning performance as Livia in I, Claudius. She has appeared in Lewis, Missing, Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Aristocrats, The Murder Room, Ivanhoe, The Scold’s Bride, Ballykissangel, and the International Emmy Award–winning The Magician’s House, among others. Her films include House of America, Alice Through the Looking Glass, My Old Lady, The Borrowers, Becket, Under Milk Wood, Dune, Valmont, The Age of Innocence, and Murphy’s Law. Phillips is a graduate of the University of Wales and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.). Her acclaimed autobiography, Public Places, has been published in the United States by Faber & Faber.
Justin Randolph Hugh/Tranisch Justin Randolph is a New York City–based actor and singer who recently appeared in Sondheim’s Assassins with Fifth Floor Productions. Favorite NYC credits include Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Prince; The Wolf), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Invader? I Hardly Know Her (Botsworth) with the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, and Off-Broadway in A Christmas Carol (Topper). Favorite regional credits include Equus (Alan), Camelot (Mordred), and Closer (Dan). Randolph was a member of the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble Choral Chameleon for three years. He has an M.M. in voice performance from Bowling Green State University, and his training includes opera performances with the Oberlin Conservatory at the Centro Studi Italiani Opera Festival and a one-year Meisner acting intensive with TGA Studios. www.justinrandolph.com
Marianne Rendon Dolly Marianne Rendon is currently studying theater at Bard College and will graduate in the spring of 2012. She has appeared in the student productions Fefu and Her Friends (Fefu), directed by Jean Wagner; Heart’s Desire (Alice), directed by JoAnne Akalaitis; and Blue Kettle (Enid), directed by Daniel Fish. As an actress, dancer, and musician, she has also appeared in many student-run collaborations. Rendon attended The British American Drama Academy in the fall of 2010, where she played Regan in King Lear, directed by Ian Wooldridge.
Ryan Speakman Lord Shayne Ryan Speakman recently graduated from New York University’s Steinhardt School with a degree in vocal performance (music theater). He currently resides in New York City, where his credits include Pinkalicious, The Musical (Vineyard Theatre); Alive at Ten (currently Mrs.
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Sharp), Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, NYU; With Glee (winner, Best Ensemble Performance, 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival); Violet; and The Boys from Syracuse. Regional favorites include Camelot (Olney Theatre Center), Oklahoma! (TriArts), and The Sound of Music (Nantucket Dreamland). His opera credits include Trouble in Tahiti and The Corps of Discovery (Opera Memphis). Speakman can also be seen as Carter in the upcoming webseries Girlhattan, on Karmaloop TV. www.ryanspeakman.net
Amanda Squittieri Manon For the 2010–11 season, Amanda Squitieri returned to LA Opera as Beatrice Russo in the world premiere of Daniel Catan’s Il postino with Plácido Domingo. She also premiered Il postino in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien and in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet; debuted at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Catherine in William Bolcolm’s A View from the Bridge; and covered the role of Alice in Le Comte Ory in the new Metropolitan Opera production directed by Bartlett Sher. Other recent engagements include Esmeralda in The Bartered Bride (Opéra National de Paris), Anne in the Isaac Mizrahi production of A Little Night Music (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis), Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (LA Opera), Lisette in La rondine (LA Opera), and Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Washington National Opera). Next season, Squittieri will premiere Il postino in Mexico and make her debut at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago.
Jack Parton Music Arranger and Preparer Jack Parton studied composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, with additional studies in voice and tuba and particular concentrations in preclassical and avant-garde music. After working for more than a decade in the New York City music world—as performer, editor, copyist, music preparation specialist, orchestra librarian, and composer—he has recently moved to Chicago to find more studio space and creative time. Parton’s previous involvement with SummerScape has included assisting with the reduction of the orchestration for Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing in 2008 and producing an entirely new orchestration for last year’s operetta, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier.
Christopher Caines Choreographer Christopher Caines was born in Canada, earned an A.B. in literature from Harvard University, and founded Christopher Caines Dance in 2000. He has been called “the most musically sophisticated choreographer under 45 in the United States” (Dance View Times) and “one of the most musically erudite and articulate dance-makers around” (The New Yorker). Caines’s commissions include works created as a visiting artist at Harvard and as a visiting faculty member at Princeton University and Swarthmore College; The Human Countdown, commissioned by Oxfam and a global coalition of NGOs, performed by 1,200 volunteers in New York City’s Central Park in 2009; and a ballet for the closing 15
ceremonies of the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2010. He has made dances for the Actors Shakespeare Company of New Jersey annually since 2005. Caines has received grants from Meet the Composer, The Field, the Ernst Toch Society, and the Astral, Puffin, and Putnam Foundations. He was a 2006 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in Choreography.
Adrian W. Jones Set Designer Adrian W. Jones is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Occidental College. His recent work includes the set designs for Cutman, a new Goodspeed Musicals production; Sufjan Stevens’s U.S. and European concert tours; and Vision Disturbance, directed by Richard Maxwell (Under the Radar Festival). In 2010, he was set designer on the Broadway production of Looped with Valerie Harper. Jones has worked with Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, New York Stage and Film, LAByrinth Theater Company, New York City Players, The New Group, People’s Light & Theater, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Barrington Stage Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, and Capital Repertory Theater. He has designed nine productions for the Obie Award–winning Synapse Productions in New York and 11 shows for Theaterworks in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the recipient of a Carbonell Award (Miami), a Connecticut Critics Circle Award (Hartford), and a Kevin Kline Award (St. Louis), and his work has been published in Surface and Dwell Magazines. www.adrianwjones.com
Gregory Gale Costume Designer Gregory Gale has designed the costumes for numerous Broadway productions, including Cyrano de Bergerac (Tony and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations), Rock of Ages (Tony and Hewes Award nominations) Arcadia, The Wedding Singer (Drama Desk Award nomination), Urinetown (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), and Band in Berlin. His OffBroadway credits include The Voysey Inheritance, Atlantic Theater Company (Lucille Lortel Award; Hewes Award nomination); The Milliner, Classic Stage Company (Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Rock of Ages, New World Stages; The Third Story, Manhattan Theatre Club (Hewes Award nomination); Pig Farm and The Dazzle, Roundabout Theatre; Rope, The Zipper Factory; Country Club (Drama Desk nomination), The Torch-Bearers, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and As Thousands Cheer, Drama Dept.; and Mary Stuart, The Infernal Machine, and Night of the Tribades, Jean Cocteau Repertory. Gale was costume designer for the U.S. tours of Rock of Ages (plus Toronto, London, and Australia), Urinetown (plus Toronto), and the National Theatre of the Deaf’s production of Oh, Figaro! His regional theater credits include The Man Who Came to Dinner (Alley Theatre), Rich and Famous (A.C.T.), A Flea in Her Ear (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Bombshells (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, High Button
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Shoes, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and The Pajama Game (Goodspeed Opera House). He is the recipient of an Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. www.gregorygale.com
Christopher Akerlind Lighting Designer Christopher Akerlind is a lighting and sometime set designer who has designed more than 600 productions at theater, opera, and dance companies across the country and around the world. Recent work includes Franco Dragone’s KDO! (Forest Nationale, Brussels), Orpheus X (Theatre for a New Audience; Hong Kong and Edinburgh Festivals), Tamerlano (LA Opera), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Alley Theatre), Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Appomattox (San Francisco Opera), Superior Donuts and Top Girls (Broadway), Twelfth Night (McCarter Theatre), Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights (Minetta Lane Theatre), and Kafeneion (Athens & Epidaurus Festival). He is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence; the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration; and the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Henry Hewes Design Awards for the Broadway production of The Light in the Piazza, as well as numerous nominations for the Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, NAACP, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony Awards.
Jack Furness Assistant Director Jack Furness graduated with a double first in music from Cambridge University last summer. While at Cambridge, Furness founded Shadwell Opera, for which he has directed Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Johnathan Dove’s Siren Song. In May, he directed Jasper Rees and Jonathan Guy Lewis’s I Found My Horn at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge. His production of Albert Herring for Shadwell Opera is currently touring the UK, including a performance at Opera Holland Park. Furness has assisted Michael Gieleta on Bed˘rich Smetana’s The Kiss at Wexford Festival Opera and John Ramster on the Royal Academy of Music’s Opera Scenes program. Future plans include assisting Gieleta on Roman Statkowski’s Maria at Wexford and an observership at the Royal Opera House in November and December for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Other plans include a staging of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw for Shadwell Opera in 2012.
James Bassi Music Codirector James Bassi’s previous SummerScape productions include Of Thee I Sing and The Chocolate Soldier. New York City music direction credits include James Lapine’s Twelve Dreams (Lincoln Center Theater), The Pirates of Penzance (AMD, South Street Seaport), and I and Albert and The Grand Tour (The York Theatre Company). His regional theater credits include Side by Side, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, and As Thousands Cheer (New Harmony Theatre); Edwin Drood (River Rep); and A Little Night Music, Ragtime, Camelot, and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (White Plains Performing Arts Center). As pianist, Bassi has accompanied Deborah Voigt, Ute Lemper, 17
Judy Kaye, and Jessye Norman in concert. He is a versatile composer, with works performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. His Petrarch Dances was commissioned and premiered by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Bassi has received composition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His music publisher is Oxford University Press.
Elizabeth Smith Dialect Coach Elizabeth Smith’s extensive Broadway credits include Arcadia, The Importance of Being Earnest, Top Girls, The Homecoming, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, The Coast of Utopia, The Rivals, Henry IV, The Invention of Love, Twelfth Night, Ivanov, Racing Demon, Sight Unseen, The Retreat from Moscow, Tartuffe, Uncle Vanya, Night Must Fall, London Assurance, Tommy, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast, Me and My Girl, Piaf, Rose, and Dracula. Her Off-Broadway credits include Humble Boy, House and Garden, One Flea Spare, The Skriker, Hamlet, Fen, Moonlight, The Entertainer, The Importance of Being Earnest, No Man’s Land, The Road to Mecca, and Cloud Nine. Regionally, she has worked with Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, the Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Holly Buczek Casting Director Holly Buczek is resident casting director for the Vital Theatre Company, where she has cast Pinkalicious, The Musical; Uncle Pirate; Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly; Angelina Ballerina: The Musical; Awesome Allie: First Kid Astronaut; and other shows. Other favorite projects include Caroline, or Change (in the role of Caroline) for Cyrano’s Theatre Company, Perfect Wedding for Vital SummerStage, R U Nobody 2? (staged reading) at the Dramatists Guild, and New Shoe’s reading of The Ballad of Rom and Julz. At Vital, Buczek also facilitates the development process for new works. In addition, she assists the casting for Theatre 167 in Jackson Heights. She is an honor graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. For more information, visit www.hdbcasting.com.
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We honor the late Richard B. Fisher for his generosity and leadership in building and supporting this superb center that bears his name by offering outstanding arts experiences. We recognize and thank the following individuals, corporations, and foundations that share Dick’s and our belief in presenting and creating art for the enrichment of society. Help us sustain the Fisher Center and ensure that the performing arts are a part of our lives. We encourage and need you to join our growing list of donors.
Donors to the Fisher Center Leadership Support Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander Jeanne Donovan Fisher Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation Richard B. Fisher Endowment Fund Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff Robert W. Wilson Golden Circle Anonymous The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Falconwood Foundation, Inc. FMH Foundation Linda Hirshman and David Forkosh Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation Millbrook Tribute Garden, Inc. Thendara Foundation Felicitas S. Thorne True Love Productions
Friends of the Fisher Center Producer Fiona Angelini and Jamie Welch Artek Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation Association of Performing Arts Presenters Bioseutica USA, Inc. Carolyn Marks Blackwood Chartwells School and University Dining Services Consulate General of Finland in New York Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby The Ettinger Foundation, Inc. Stefano Ferrari and Lilo Zinglersen Alexander Fisher MFA ’96 Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy R. Britton and Melina Fisher Key Bank Foundation Harvey and Phyllis Lichtenstein Chris Lipscomb and Monique Segarra Mansakenning LLC The Marks Family Foundation
The Maurer Family Foundation, Inc. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Millbrook Vineyards and Winery Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr. Drs. M. Susan and Irwin Richman Ingrid Rockefeller David E. Schwab II ’52 and Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52 Bethany B. Winham Patron Helen and Roger Alcaly American-Scandinavian Foundation Kathleen and Roland Augustine Mary I. Backlund and Virginia Corsi Sandra and A. John Blair III Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar Stuart Breslow and Anne Miller Anne and Harvey Brown Barbara and Richard Debs Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las Heras Elizabeth de Lima Tambra Dillon Dirt Road Realty, LLC Ines Elskop and Christopher Scholz Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and Jonathan K. Greenburg Finlandia Foundation Alan and Judith Fishman Susan Fowler-Gallagher GE Foundation Gideon and Sarah Gartner Foundation of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Bryanne and Thomas Hamill The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Inc. HSBC Philanthropic Programs John Cage Trust Dr. Harriette Kaley ’06 Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner Dr. Barbara Kenner Ruth Ketay and Rene Schnetzler Laura Kuhn
Jane and Daniel Lindau Low Road Foundation Stephen Mazoh and Martin Kline Elizabeth I. McCann W. Patrick McMullan and Rachel McPherson Alexandra Ottaway Pleasant Valley Animal Hospital Quality Printing Company David A. Schulz Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha Andrew Solomon and John Habich Sarah and Howard Solomon Darcy Stephens Allan and Ronnie Streichler Barbara and Donald Tober Illiana van Meeteren and Terence C. Boylan ’70 Margo and Anthony Viscusi Aida and Albert Wilder Sponsor Sarah Botstein and Bryan Doerries Caplan Family Foundation Richard D. Cohen The Eve Propp Family Foundation Carlos Gonzalez and Katherine Stewart Eliot D. and Paula K. Hawkins Rachel and Dr. Shalom Kalnicki Geraldine and Lawrence Laybourne Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Barbara L. and Arthur Michaels Andrea and Kenneth L. Miron Samuel and Ellen Phelan Catherine M. and Jonathan B. Smith Ted Snowdon John Tancock Beverley D. Zabriskie Supporter Harriet Bloch and Evan Sakellarios Kay Brover and Arthur Bennett Alfred M. Buff and Lenore Nemeth Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Cuttler Leslie and Doug Dienel Amy K. and David Dubin Patricia Falk Martha Jane Fleischman Frances A. and Rao Gaddipati
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Helena and Christopher Gibbs Gilberte Vansintejan Glaser and William A. Glaser Miriam and Burton Gold Nan and David Greenwood Alexander Grey and David Cabrera Dr. Eva B. Griepp Rosemary and Graham Hanson David S. Hart Janet and William Hart Lars Hedstrom and Barry Judd Hedstrom and Judd, Inc. Mel and Phyllis Heiko Darren Henault Dr. Joan Hoffman and Syd Silverman Susan and Roger Kennedy Harold Klein Seymour and Harriet Koenig Rose and Josh Koplovitz Danielle Korwin and Anthony DiGuiseppe James Kraft Elissa Kramer and Jay H. Newman Ramone Lascano Helena Lee Mimi Levitt Mr. and Mrs. David Londoner Susan Lorence Charles S. Maier Margrit and Albrecht Pichler Ted Ruthizer and Jane Denkensohn William Siegfried Elisabeth F. Turnauer Seymour Weingarten Friend Anonymous Joshua J. Aronson John J. Austrian ’91 and Laura M. Austrian Sybil Baldwin Alvin and Arlene Becker Howard and Mary Bell Frederick Berliner Jeanne and Homer Byington MaryAnn and Thomas Case Daniel Chu and Lenore Schiff Mr. and Mrs. John Cioffi Jean T. Cook Abby H. and John B. Dux David Ebony and Bruce Mundt Arthur Fenaroli Dr. Marta P. Flaum Edward Forlie Allan Freedman Mary and Harvey Freeman Joseph W. and Joyce Gelb Marvin and Maxine Gilbert Nigel Gillah Laurie Gilmore Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Glinert G. Carson Glover and Stephen Millikin Judy R. and Arthur Gold 20
Fayal Greene and David J. Sharpe Sheryl Griffith David A. Harris Elise and Carl Hartman Sue Hartshorn James Hayden Dorothy and Leo Hellerman Delmar D. Hendricks Sky Pape and Alan Houghton David Hurvitz Neil Isabelle Mark R. Joelson Eleanor C. Kane Linda L. Kaumeyer Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kelly Martha Klein and David Hurvitz Robert J. Kurilla James Lack Robert la Porte Gerald F. Lewis Sara F. Luther and John J. Neumaier John P. Mackenzie Herbert Mayo Dr. Naomi Mendelsohn Edie Michelson and Sumner Milender Janet C. Mills David T. Mintz Roy Moses Joanne and Richard Mrstik Martha Nickels Douglas Okerson and William Williams Elizabeth J. and Sevgin Oktay Robert M. Osborne David Pozorski and Anna Romanski Susan Price George and Gail Hunt Reeke Susan Regis Rhinebeck Department Store Peter and Linda Rubenstein Heinz and Klara Sauer Barbara and Dick Schreiber Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Scott James E. Scott Dr. Alan M. Silbert Peter Sipperley Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb Francis E. Storer Jr. Mark Sutton Taconic Foundation, Inc. Janeth L. Thoron Tiffany & Co. Dr. Siri von Reis Joan E. Weberman Robert Weiss Wendy and Michael Westerman Williams Lumber and Home Centers Albert L. Yarashus Mike and Kathy Zdeb Rena Zurofsky Current as of June 20, 2011
Donors to the Bard Music Festival Events in this year’s Bard Music Festival were underwritten in part by special gifts from Helen and Roger Alcaly Bettina Baruch Foundation Michelle R. Clayman Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mimi Levitt James H. Ottaway Jr. Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha Allan and Ronnie Streichler Felicitas S. Thorne Festival Underwriters James H. Ottaway Jr. Opening Concert Mimi Levitt Preconcert Talks Guest Artists Films Homeland Foundation Bard Music Festival Preview at Wethersfield Helen and Roger Alcaly Festival Book Festival Program Margo and Anthony Viscusi Preconcert Talks Joanna M. Migdal Panel Discussions Paula and Eliot Hawkins Christina A. Mohr and Matthew Guerreiro Between the Concerts Supper National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Leadership Support Mimi Levitt The Mortimer Levitt Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr. Golden Circle Bettina Baruch Foundation Jeanne Donovan Fisher The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha Felicitas S. Thorne Millie and Robert Wise
Friends of the Bard Music Festival Benefactor American-Scandinavian Foundation The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Banco Santander S. A. Barclays Bank Leonie F. Batkin Joan K. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las Heras John A. Dierdorff Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and Jonathan K. Greenburg FMH Foundation Furthermore: A Program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund Eliot D. and Paula K. Hawkins Linda Hirshman and David Forkosh Homeland Foundation, Inc. HSBC Philanthropic Programs Anne E. Impellizzeri The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. Susan and Roger Kennedy Barbara Kenner Amy and Thomas O. Maggs Marstrand Foundation The Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Dimitri B. and Rania Papadimitriou Peter Kenner Family Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc. Dr. Gabrielle Reem** and Dr. Herbert J. Kayden Drs. M. Susan and Irwin Richman David E. Schwab II ’52 and Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52 H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English Dr. Siri von Reis Merida Welles and William Holman The Wise Family Charitable Foundation Elaine and James Wolfensohn Betsey and E. Lisk Wyckoff Jr. Patron ABC Foundation Constance Abrams and Ann Verber Edwin L. Artzt and Marieluise Hessel Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Atkins Kathleen and Roland Augustine Gale and Sheldon Baim Elizabeth Phillips Bellin ’00 and Marco M. S. Bellin
Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 Helen ’48 and Robert Bernstein Helen and Robert Bernstein Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar Sarah Botstein and Bryan Doerries Lydia Chapin Constance and David C. Clapp J. T. Compton Jane Cottrell and Richard Kortright Arnold J. ’44 and Seena Davis** Barbara and Richard Debs Michael Del Giudice and Jaynne Keyes Rt. Rev. Herbert A. and Mary Donovan Amy Knoblauch Dubin and David Dubin Robert C. Edmonds ’68 Ines Elskop and Christopher Scholz John Geller Helena and Christopher Gibbs Kim Z. Golden Carlos Gonzalez and Katherine Stewart Barbara K. Hogan Jane and Robert Hottensen Frederic K. and Elena Howard Joan and Julius Jacobson Jasper Johns Drs. Harriette and Gabor Kaley Rachel and Dr. Shalom Kalnicki Helene and Mark N. Kaplan Belinda and Stephen Kaye Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee III Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner Klavierhaus, Inc. Seymour and Harriet Koenig Edna and Gary Lachmund Alison and John Lankenau Glenda Fowler Law and Alfred Law Barbara and S Jay Levy Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Patti and Murray Liebowitz Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation Stephen Mazoh and Martin Kline W. Patrick McMullan and Rachel McPherson Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Menken Metropolitan Life Foundation Matching Gift Program Andrea and Kenneth L. Miron Christina A. Mohr and Matthew Guerreiro Ken Mortenson Martin L. Murray and Lucy Miller Murray Alexandra Ottaway Eve Propp Drs. Morton and Shirley Rosenberg Blanche and Bruce Rubin
Andrew Solomon and John Habich Solomon Sarah and Howard Solomon Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff Edwin A. Steinberg Dr. S. B. Sternlieb Stewart’s Shops Elizabeth Farran Tozer and W. James Tozer Jr. Tozer Family Fund of the New York Community Trust Illiana van Meeteren Aida and Albert Wilder Irene Zedlacher William C. Zifchak and Margaret Evans Sponsor Anonymous Ana Azevedo Margaret and Alec Bancroft Everett and Karen Cook Phillip S. Cooke Blythe Danner ’65 Dasein Foundation Willem F. De Vogel and Marion Davidson Cornelia Z. and Timothy Eland Timothy and Cornelia Eland Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Shepard and Jane Ellenberg Ellenberg Asset Management Corp. Field-Bay Foundation Francis Finlay and Olivia J. Fussell Laura Flax Martha Jane Fleischman Deborah and Thomas Flexner Donald C. Fresne Laura Genero Samuel L. Gordon Jr. and Marylou Tapalla Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Gwynne Marjorie Hart Nancy and David Hathaway Martin Holub and Karen Kidder Lucas Hoogduin and Adriana Onstwedder Pamela Howard John R. and Joyce Hupper I.B.M. Matching Grants Program Susan Jonas Edith Hamilton Kean Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henckels Clara F. and David J. Londoner James and Purcell Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Payton Ellen and Eric Petersen John and Claire Reid Alfred J. and Deirdre Ross Dr. Paul H. Schwartz and Lisa Barne-Schwartz James and Sara Sheldon 21
David and Sarah Stack Richard C. Strain and Eva Van Rijn Barbara and Donald Tober Arete and William** Warren Jack and Jill Wertheim Rosalind Whitehead Serena H. Whitridge Julia and Nigel Widdowson Peter and Maria Wirth Supporter Munir and Susan Abu-Haidar Barbara J. Agren James Akerberg and Larry Simmons Leora and Peter Armstrong Irene and Jack Banning Didi and David Barrett Karen H. Bechtel Dr. Susan Krysiewicz and Thomas Bell Carole and Gary Beller Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bellin Beth and Jerry Bierbaum Mr. and Mrs. David Bova Mr. and Mrs. William B. Brannan Kay Brover and Arthur Bennett Dan F. and Nancy Brown Kate Buckley and Tony Pell Phyllis Busell and James Kostell Peter Caldwell and Jane Waters Miriam and Philip Carroll Frederick and Jan Cohen Seth Dubin and Barbara Field Joan and Wolcott Dunham Ruth Eng Ingrid and Gerald Fields Emily Rutgers Fuller Donald Gellert and Elaine Koss Mims and Burton Gold Victoria and Max Goodwin Janine M. Gordon Mary and Kingdon Gould Jr. Nan and David Greenwood Mortimer and Penelope C. Hall Sally S. Hamilton Juliet Heyer Susan Hoehn and Allan Bahrs William Holman Dalya Inhaber Jay Jolly Karen Bechtel Foundation of the Advisor Charitable Gift Fund Robert E. Kaus Erica Kiesewetter Charles and Katharine King Karen Klopp Dr. and Mrs. Vincent Koh Lowell H. and Sandra A. Lamb Debra I. and Jonathan Lanman E. Deane and Judith S. Leonard Walter Lippincott Lynn Favrot Nolan Family Fund
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Jeanette MacDonald and Charles Morgan Philip and Tracey Mactaggart Charles S. Maier Claire and Chris Mann Marilyn Marinaccio Elizabeth B. Mavroleon Charles Melcher Arthur and Barbara L. Michaels Samuel C. Miller John E. Morrison IV Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mudge Bernadette Murray and Randy Fertel Kamilla and Donald Najdek Jay H. Newman and Elissa Kramer Mr. and Mrs. William T. Nolan Marta E. Nottebohm Elizabeth J. and Sergin Oktay Dr. Bernhard Fabricius and Sylvia Owen David B. and Jane L. Parshall Susan Heath and Rodney Paterson John and Claire Reid Barbara Reis Susan F. Rogers Rosalie Rossi, Ph.D. John Royall Dagni and Martin Senzel Denise and Lawrence Shapiro Nadine Bertin Stearns Mim and Leonard Stein Carole Tindall John Tuke and Leslie Farhangi Dr. Elisabeth F. Turnauer Monica Wambold Taki and Donald Wise John and Mary Young Friend Rev. Albert R. Ahlstrom Lorraine D. Alexander Arthur A. Anderson Anonymous Zelda Aronstein and Norman Eisner Artscope, Inc. John K. Ayling Phebe and George Banta James M. Barton Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Barton Saida Baxt Regina and David Beckman Dr. Howard Bellin Richard L. Benson Dr. Marge and Edward Blaine Eric and Irene Brocks David and Jeannette T. Brown Mr. and Mrs. John C. D. Bruno Alfred M. Buff and Lenore Nemeth Isobel and Robert Clark Donald Cooney Millicent O. McKinley Cox Linda and Richard Daines Dana and Brian Dunn
Abby and John Dux Peter Edelman Peter Elebash and Jane Robinson Jim and Laurie Niles Erwin Patricia Falk Harold Farberman Arthur L. Fenaroli David and Tracy Finn Luisa E. Flynn Patricia and John Forelle Mary Ann Free Samantha Free Stephen and Jane Garmey Anne C. Gillis Mr. and Mrs. Harrison J. Goldin Dr. Joel and Ellen Goldin Stanley L. Gordon Thurston Greene Ben-Ali and Mimi Haggin David A. Harris Sy Helderman Sharon and David Hendler Carol Henken Nancy H. Henze Gary Herman David Hurvitz and Martha Klein Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Imber Patricia H. Keesee Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kelly Joan Kend Diana Niles King Thea Kliros Sharon Daniel Kroeger Robert J. Kurilla Jeffrey Lang Prof. Edward C. Laufer Wayne Lawson Beth Ledy Laurence and Michael Levin Longy School of Music Ruthie and Lincoln Lyman M Group, LLC John P. MacKenzie Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney Annette S. and Paul N. Marcus Harvey Marek The McGraw-Hill Companies Matching Gift Program Marcus Mello ’04 Dr. Naomi Mendelsohn Philip Messing Millbrook Real Estate, LLC Deborah D. Montgomery Kelly Morgan Debbie Ann and Christopher Morley Susan and Robert Murphy Anna Neverova ’07 Nancy R. Newhouse Hugh and Marilyn Nissenson Harold J. and Helen C. Noah James Olander Marilyn and Peter Oswald Gary S. Patrik
Sarah Payden ’09 Peter and Sally V. Pettus Lucas Pipes ’08 Dr. Alice R. Pisciotto David Pozorski and Anna Romanski D. Miles Price Stanley A. Reichel ’65 and Elaine Reichel Dr. Naomi F. Rothfield ’50 and Lawrence Rothfield Harriet and Bernard Sadow Antonia Salvato Sheila Sanders Dr. Thomas B. Sanders Heinz and Klara Sauer Molly Schaefer Frederick W. Schwerin Jr. Mary Scott Danny P. Shanahan and Janet E. Stetson ’81 J. Kevin Smith Polly and LeRoy Swindell Jessica and Peter Tcherepnine Gladys R. Thomas Janeth L. Thoron Cynthia M. Tripp ’01 Laurie Tuzo Olivia van Melle Kamp Ronald VanVoorhies Andrea A. Walton Jacqueline E. Warren Peter Warwick Renee K. Weiss ’51 Barbara Jean Weyant Anne Whitehead Victoria and Conrad Wicher Mr. and Mrs. John Winkler Amy Woods Robert and Lynda Youmans Current as of June 20, 2011
Major support for the Fisher Center’s programs has been provided by: Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation Helen and Roger Alcaly American-Scandinavian Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fiona Angelini and Jamie Welch The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Anonymous Artek The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Barclays Bank Leonie F. Batkin Bettina Baruch Foundation Bioseutica USA, Inc.
Carolyn Marks Blackwood and Gregory Quinn Chartwells School and University Dining Services Michelle R. Clayman Consulate General of Finland in New York Joan K. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las Heras John A. Dierdorff Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and Jonathan K. Greenburg Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby The Ettinger Foundation, Inc. Stefano Ferrari and Lilo Zinglersen Finlandia Foundation Alexander D. Fisher MFA ’96 Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander Jeanne Donovan Fisher R. Britton and Melina Fisher FMH Foundation Eliot D. and Paula K. Hawkins Linda Hirshman and David Forkosh Homeland Foundation, Inc. HSBC Philanthropic Programs Anne E. Impellizzeri Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation Jane’s Ice Cream Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. Belinda and Stephen Kaye Susan and Roger Kennedy Barbara Kenner Mimi Levitt Chris Lipscomb and Monique Segarra Amy and Thomas O. Maggs Mansakenning LLC The Marks Family Foundation Marstrand Foundation Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation The Maurer Family Foundation, Inc. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Joanna M. Migdal The Millbrook Tribute Garden Millbrook Vineyards & Winery Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Finland The Mortimer Levitt Foundation Inc. Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Dance National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA)
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr. Dimitri B. and Rania Papadimitriou Peter Kenner Family Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Dr. Gabrielle H. Reem** and Dr. Herbert J. Kayden Richard B. Fisher Endowment Fund Drs. M. Susan and Irwin Richman Ingrid Rockefeller David E. Schwab II ’52 and Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52 The Schwab Charitable Fund Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English Allan and Ronnie Streichler Thendara Foundation Felicitas S. Thorne True Love Productions Margo and Anthony Viscusi Dr. Siri von Reis Bethany B. Winham Millie and Robert Wise The Wise Family Charitable Foundation Wolfensohn Family Foundation Elizabeth and E. Lisk Wyckoff Jr. ** deceased Current as of June 20, 2011
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Boards and Administration Bard College
Norton Batkin Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies
Board of Trustees David E. Schwab II ’52, Chair Emeritus Charles P. Stevenson Jr., Chair Emily H. Fisher, Vice Chair Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer
Jonathan Becker Vice President and Dean for International Affairs and Civic Engagement
Fiona Angelini Roland J. Augustine Leon Botstein, President of the College+ David C. Clapp Marcelle Clements ’69* Asher B. Edelman ’61 Robert S. Epstein ’63 Barbara S. Grossman ’73* Sally Hambrecht George F. Hamel Jr. Ernest F. Henderson III, Life Trustee Marieluise Hessel Charles S. Johnson III ’70 Mark N. Kaplan George A. Kellner Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Murray Liebowitz Marc S. Lipschultz Peter H. Maguire ’88 James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee Martin Peretz Stewart Resnick Roger N. Scotland ’93* The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, Honorary Trustee Martin T. Sosnoff Susan Weber Patricia Ross Weis ’52
Max Kenner ’01 Vice President for Institutional Initiatives
Susan H. Gillespie Vice President for Special Global Initiatives
Erin Cannan Dean of Student Affairs Peter Gadsby Associate Vice President for Enrollment; Registrar Mary Smith Director of Publications Ginger Shore Consultant to Publications Mark Primoff Director of Communications Kevin Parker Controller Jeffrey Katz Dean of Information Services; Director of Libraries
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Executive Vice President
Advisory Board Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair Leon Botstein+ Stefano Ferrari Harvey Lichtenstein Robert Martin+ James H. Ottaway Jr. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+ Martin T. Sosnoff Toni Sosnoff Felicitas S. Thorne
Michèle D. Dominy Vice President and Dean of the College
Administration Susana Meyer Associate Director
Robert Martin Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, The Bard College Conservatory of Music
Robert Airhart Production Manager
Administration Leon Botstein President
James Brudvig Vice President for Administration Debra Pemstein Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Mary Backlund Vice President for Student Affairs; Director of Admission
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Debra Pemstein Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs
Kimberly Keeley-Henschel Budget Director Bonnie Kate Anthony Assistant Production Manager Paul LaBarbera Sound and Video Engineer Stephen Dean Stage Operations Manager Vincent Roca Technical Director Mark Crittenden Facilities Manager Jeannie Schneider Business Manager Austin Miller ’06 Events Manager Claire Weber ’08 Box Office Manager Ray Stegner Building Operations Manager Doug Pitcher Building Operations Coordinator Daniel DeFrancis Robyn Charter
The Bard Music Festival Board of Directors Denise S. Simon, Chair Roger Alcaly Leon Botstein+ Michelle R. Clayman John A. Dierdorff Robert C. Edmonds ’68 Jeanne Donovan Fisher Christopher H. Gibbs+ Jonathan K. Greenburg Paula K. Hawkins Linda Hirshman Barbara Kenner Mimi Levitt Thomas O. Maggs Robert Martin+ Joanna M. Migdal Kenneth L. Miron Christina A. Mohr James H. Ottaway Jr. Allan Streichler Tucker Taylor Felicitas S. Thorne Siri von Reis E. Lisk Wyckoff Jr.
Mary Smith Director of Publications
Artistic Directors Leon Botstein Christopher H. Gibbs Robert Martin
Ginger Shore Consultant to Publications
Executive Director Irene Zedlacher
Mark Primoff Director of Communications
Associate Director Raissa St. Pierre ’87 Scholar in Residence 2011 Daniel M. Grimley Program Committee 2011 Byron Adams Leon Botstein Christopher H. Gibbs Daniel M. Grimley Robert Martin Richard Wilson Irene Zedlacher Development Debra Pemstein Andrea Guido Stephen Millikin Publications Mary Smith Ginger Shore, Consultant Public Relations Mark Primoff Eleanor Davis 21C Media Director of Choruses James Bagwell Vocal Casting Consultant Susana Meyer Stage Managers Stephen Dean Matthew Waldron + ex officio * alumni/ae trustee
SummerScape Staff Production Erin Albrecht Spiegeltent Venue Director Grace Schultz ’10 Production Assistant Emily Cuk ’11 Sarah Schultz Mette Loulou Von Kohl ’10 Madeline Wise ’12 Carpenters Mike Zally Assistant Technical Director
Hui Yi Chin ’14 Walter Daniels Eszter Ficsor ’13 Samantha Gribben Michael Kauffman ’11 Robert Kubisen Brian Lindsay Liudmila Malyshava ’12 Jeremiah McClelland Mike Porter ’11 Kara Ramlow Hannah Reilly Nora Rubenstone ’11 Janos Sutyak ’13
Matthew Waldron ’07 Stage Operations Supervisor, Theater Two / Stage Manager BMF
Sound and Video Richard Pearson Audio 1, Sosnoff Theater
Robert Dickson Assistant Stage Operations Supervisor, Theater Two
Thom Patzner Audio 1, Sosnoff Theater for Bard Music Festival
Carley Matey Assistant to the Stage Operations Supervisor, Sosnoff Theater
Jeffrey Notti Audio 1, Theater Two
Sarah Bessel ’11 Assistant to the Stage Operations Supervisor, Theater Two Zachary Charter Katherine Dalo Kaycee Filson ’11 Charlotte Gibbons Connor Gibbons Dale Gibbons Daniel Gibbons Trevor Hendrickson Ben Johnson Derek Pitcher Todd Renadette Alexander Setzko ’13 Ashley L. Stegner ’12 Dave Toropov ’11 Electrics Jeremy Lechterman Master Electrician, Sosnoff Theater and Spiegeltent Joshua Foreman Master Electrician, Theater Two Ephraim Sosna Lighting Programmer, Sosnoff Theater Victoria Loye Programmer and Light Board Operator, Theater Two Michael Porter ’11 Light Board Programmer Patrick Bova ’11 Assistant to the Master Electrician, Sosnoff Theater and Spiegeltent
Louis Munroe Audio 2, Theater Two Joshua Hahn ’11 Hsiao-Fang Lin Chris Rubeo ’10 John Schoonover ’12 Costumes Brie Furches-Howell Costume Shop Manager Molly Farley Draper / Wardrobe Katie Durkee Draper / Wardrobe Lindsay McWilliams First Hand / Wardrobe Maria Juri Lead Wardrobe / Stitcher Erin Miskiewicz Lead Wardrobe / Stitcher Alice Broughton Isabelle Coler April Hickman Samantha Kingsland Christina Marcantonio Alise Marie Hair and Makeup Jennifer Donovan Hair and Makeup Supervisor Katie M. Carlson John Dunnett Ellen Kinnally Jessica Olsen
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Properties Brian Kafel Properties Supervisor Ellie Engstron Morgan Green ’12 Olivia Madden ’13
Christina Reitemeyer ’07 Senior Assistant House Manager Patrick King ’12 Assistant House Manager Carley Gooley ’12 Assistant House Manager
Spiegelmaestro Nik Quaife
Lynne Czajka Spiegeltent House Manager
Company Manager Katrin Hall
Box Office Tellers Caitlyn DeRosa Sarah Cuk ’14 Sean Colonna ’12 Melodie Stancato ’13 Anastasia Blank ’12 Jorin Dawidowicz ’12 Emily Cuk ’11 Nick Reilingh
Company Management Assistants Maizy Broderick Scarpa Amy Cohen ’12 Azfar Kahn ’13 Harry Vincent Front of House Austin Miller ’06 Events Manager Lesley DeMartin ’11 House Manager
Housekeeping Dennis Cohen Anna Simmons Melissa Stickle Assistants to the Facilities Manager Doug Pitcher Ray Stegner
John Boggs ’10 Assistant
About Bard College Founded in 1860, Bard is an independent, nonsectarian, residential, coeducational college offering a four-year B.A. program in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year B.S./B.A. degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree, a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music, and offers an M.Music in vocal arts and in conducting. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College, a New York City public school with two campuses; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; M.A. in curatorial studies, and M.S. in environmental policy and in climate science and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple campuses; and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College), Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, and American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at AlQuds University in East Jerusalem. Bard offers academic programs in four divisions. Total enrollment for Bard College and its affiliates is approximately 3,700 students. The undergraduate college has an enrollment of more than 1,900 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1. For more information about Bard College, visit www.bard.edu.
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BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FISHER CENTER TODAY! Since opening in 2003, The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College has transformed cultural life in the Hudson Valley with world-class programming. Our continued success relies heavily on individuals such as you. Become a Friend of the Fisher Center today. Friends of the Fisher Center membership is designed to give individual donors the opportunity to support their favorite programs through the Fisher Center Council or Bard Music Festival Council. As a Friend of the Fisher Center, you will enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at Fisher Center presentations and receive invitations to special events and services throughout the year.
• Advance notice of programming • Free tour of the Fisher Center • Listing in the program ($5 of donation is not tax deductible)
Supporter ($350–749) All of the above, plus: • Invitation for you and a guest to a season preview event • Invitations to opening night receptions with the artists • Invitation for you and a guest to a select dress rehearsal ($5 of donation is not tax deductible)
Sponsor ($750–1,499) All of the above, plus: • Copy of the Bard Music Festival book • Invitation for you and a guest to a backstage technical demonstration ($40 of donation is not tax deductible)
Patron ($1,500–4,999) All of the above, plus: • Opportunity to buy tickets before sales open to the general public • Exclusive telephone line for Patron Priority handling of ticket orders • Invitation for you and a guest to a pre-performance dinner at a Hudson River Valley home ($150 of donation is not tax deductible)
Producer/Benefactor ($5,000+) All of the above, plus: • Seat naming opportunity • Invitations to special events scheduled throughout the year • Opportunity to underwrite events ($230 of donation is not tax deductible)
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FILM FESTIVAL JULY 14 – AUGUST 18
The Best of Nordic Film From "Golden Age" Swedish silents to Bergman and Kaurismäki
SPIEGELTENT JULY 7 – AUGUST 21
Cabaret, acrobats, musicians, and more and
THE 22ND ANNUAL BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Sibelius and His World AUGUST 12–14 and 19–21
The 2011 SummerScape season is made possible in part through the generous support of the board of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the Board of the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. The honorary patron for SummerScape 2011 and the 22nd annual Bard Music Festival is Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the former president of Finland.
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