Dean’s Message
Thank you for joining us for the 22-23 Opera season. We begin with W.A. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, based on the popular play of the same title by Pierre Beaumarchais. It is a story of domestic politics, intrigue, and love. It should prove a delightful romp for the Halloween weekend.
This production was originally created for FSU Opera in 2003 by the late Gerry Leahy and we are happy to honor his years of dedicated scenic work with this homage. Christina Marullo has designed a whole new collection of French revolution-era looks for this outstanding cast and we welcome lighting designer Michael Baumgarten to join this production team. We also welcome Maestro Christiaan Crans to the podium. His musical preparation along with Matthew Lata’s staging acumen have given this student cast an exciting opportunity of discovery.
Opera has long held a special place of prominence at the College of Music and it serves as an ideal vehicle to showcase the talents of our musicians and the professional quality of our productions. If you are one of many in our community who has been a regular patron of opera at Florida State University, we welcome you back for this production in Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. If you are new, we hope you enjoy your experience here with us tonight. We look forward to seeing you in the spring for André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Thank you for your continued support of our programs and students..
Sincerely, M. Todd Queen Dean
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W. A. Mozart Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte Music Director .................................. Christiaan Crans Stage Director ....................................... Matthew Lata Scenic Designer ....................................... Gerry Leahy Lighting Designer........................Michael Baumgarten Costume Designer ........................... Christina Marullo Wig and Make-up Designer .................... Joel Schaeffer Production Stage Manager ................... Abril Valbuena Assistant Conductor ........................ Sebastian Jimenez Chorus Master ......................................... Patrick Chiu Assistant Director ................................ Dennis Oliveira Assistant Stage Managers ................... Emerson Haven Callista Payne
Count Almaviva Jack Chandler Dylan Glenn* Countess Almaviva Blythe Reed-Banks Sarah Wells*
Cherubino Rebecca Gardner* Jennifer Lamont Bartolo Derek Hale* Alireza Tousi
Don Curzio Jabari Lewis* William Norman Antonio Cole Bellamy Jonah Capani*
The Cast
Susanna Ye Ji Lee * Brittany Fouché Strine
Figaro Coleridge Nash André D. Peele *
Marcellina Mary Botter Dawson Franzino*
Basilio Eric Boylan* Matthew Youngblood
Barbarina Tara Davy* Anne Elise Teeling
Sherpherdesses Madison Riley Michaela Stiles
on 10/27 & 10/29
Ensemble
Emmanuelle Anidjar Caitlin Ecuyer Kiára King Madison Riley Shayna Singer Michaela Stiles
Audra Weathers
Anielya Wells-Miller Cole Bellamy Owen Hillman Jabari Lewis Garrison Mack William Norman Sebastian Quintero Thomas Thai Cody Whiddon Girl
Rose Jones
*performing
Synopsis
ACT I:
Figaro, servant to Count Almaviva, is about to marry Susanna, the Countess’s maid. He measures a room for a bed, but Susanna worries that the room is too close to the Count’s chamber. She tells Figaro that Almaviva is pursuing her and seeks to restore the ancient “right of the first night.” Figaro vows to thwart the Count’s plans. Doctor Bartolo and Marcellina enter. Marcellina is angry at Susanna for stealing Figaro away from her, while Bartolo is angry at Figaro for making a fool of him in the past. Marcellina and Susanna are sarcastically polite. Cherubino, a young page, enters, seeking advice from Susanna. Count Almaviva caught him alone with the gardener’s daughter, Barbarina, and he is now to be sent away. He is besotted by all women and cannot help himself. Before Susanna can help, they are interrupted by the arrival of Almaviva himself. Cherubino hides while Almaviva attempts to set up a tryst with Susanna. The Count hides when the palace musician Don Basilio enters. Basilio references that Cherubino has a crush on the Countess. In a rage, the Count reveals himself. He explains that Cherubino is being sent away because of the page’s tryst with the gardener’s daughter. Almaviva discovers a hiding Cherubino. The Count fumes, as Cherubino overheard him propositioning Susanna, and vows to get rid of the lad by giving him a military commission. Figaro returns, accompanied by the rest of the household. He asks the Count to publicly renounce his claims on Susanna. Almaviva stalls him, as Cherubino makes a triumphant exit.
Act II
In Countess Rosina’s room, the Countess expresses her loneliness. She believes that her husband no longer loves her, particularly when Susanna requests that he leave her alone. Susanna tells the Countess that she and Figaro have a plan: Almaviva will receive a letter informing him that his wife has taken a lover. At the same time, Susanna will set up a rendezvous with Almaviva, but will send a disguised Cherubino in her place. Cherubino enters with a song of love for the Countess and a commission that the Count forgot to seal. The women start to dress him for the evening’s plot. When the Count arrives, they hide Cherubino in a closet. Noticing the Countess’s agitation, Almaviva is suspicious. He demands entry into the closet, but the Countess refuses, claiming that Susanna is inside. Almaviva leaves with the Countess to get a crowbar. Susanna opens the closet and takes Cherubino’s place while the page jumps out of a window. Unaware of the switch, the Countess confesses everything to her husband upon their return. She is shocked when Susanna exits the closet. Almaviva begs forgiveness for his suspicions. Figaro arrives to gather up the group for the
wedding. He is followed by Antonio, the gardener, who is upset that someone jumping from the Countess’s balcony crushed his flowers. With prompting from the women, Figaro claims it was he who jumped. The gardener shows him Cherubino’s dropped commission, which Figaro claims he was holding to get the Count’s seal. Marcellina, Bartolo, and Basilio enter. Almaviva, still suspicious, hears their claim that Figaro is obliged to marry Marcellina to pay off an outstanding debt.
Act III
Acting on her lady’s insistence, Susanna approaches Count Almaviva. He again asks her to meet him in the garden. She agrees. However, the Count overhears Susanna tell Figaro that his legal troubles will soon be over. He is furious at the deception. Marcellina, Bartolo, and their attorney Don Curzio press Marcellina’s claim on Figaro. Figaro tells them that being of noble birth – though stolen away by thieves as an infant – he can only marry with the consent of his family. To prove his tale, he shows the crowd his birthmark. Marcellina and Bartolo recognize the mark as belonging to their son, and the three reunite. As Figaro embraces his long-lost mother, Susanna enters, having secured the money to pay off his debt from Marcellina. Susanna misunderstands the embrace and rages at Figaro. Marcellina explains the situation, and everyone is happy. Everyone that is, except the Count, who is sure he’s still being played. Susanna returns with the Countess. The Countess dictates a letter from Susanna to the Count. She plans to surprise Almaviva in the garden herself. Figaro returns to gather everyone for the wedding. During the dancing, Susanna slips the Count her letter.
Act IV
In the garden, Figaro meets Barbarina, who Almaviva has entrusted to return the brooch Susanna pinned to the letter. Figaro assumes Susanna is cheating on him and invites Bartolo and Don Basilio to join him in a hunt for the Count. The Countess and Susanna appear, each dressed as the other. Cherubino is also in the garden to meet Barbarina. He spies the Countess and, thinking she is Susanna, tries to embrace her. Instead, he kisses Almaviva, who swats Figaro. The Count declares his love for Susanna, who, is still the Countess in disguise. Figaro tells the “Countess” about the tryst. Susanna forgets to disguise her voice, and Figaro figures out who she really is. Their embrace is noticed by the Count and just as he is about to expose them, his wife takes off her own disguise. Almaviva is shamed and apologizes to his wife for both his jealousy and his infidelity. Everyone returns to celebrate.
Director’s Note
Le nozze di Figaro or La folle journée ( Figaro’s Wedding or The Crazy Day ) is a profoundly human comedy. It is filled with laughter, tears, light, and darkness. It is 18th-century political satire and modern social commentary. On the surface, it is traditional farce. Its characters mask, mistake one for another, hide in closets, and jump out of windows. Anything can happen on a wedding day.
The word folle means many things. It means “crazy,” but also “foolish,” “deluded,” “in a state of extreme emotion,” or “lacking in restraint.” Folle can imply joy, madness, and pain. Most weddings are folle . Naive words like “until death do us part” are spoken. Lime-colored punch spills on the bride’s mother. The ring slips through a pocket into the best man’s boxers. A toddler beats the bride down the aisle. Political decisions are made. Old feuds are rediscovered.
Uncle Ernie really shouldn’t sit next to Aunt Bertha. People cry. It is a snapshot of a society. The difference between it and real life is that the lovers, if honest, redefine real life through optimism.
Figaro’s wedding day is folle not only because people jump out of windows, but also because the characters are foolish, deluded and obsessed with their own weaknesses, despite the optimism of the day. Jealousy and pettiness obscure love. Cruel sexual games are played. The characters create a new world in which fantasy overturns fact and unrestrained emotion defeats reason. Reality and imagination become one.
The theater of Figaro’s schemes and the Count’s jealousy cannot be separated from the reality of their spouses’ fidelity. The most insignificant events – losing a pin, misreading a note, or hearing a noise – can change everything. As marriage redefines reality, so do folle emotions redefine the marriage and the society it represents. It is entertaining and timeless commentary.
Each of the characters is real – and folle - in that each is a contradiction. Figaro is flush with intellect, wit, and insecurity. The Count embodies privilege, possibility, and lack of self-control. Susanna is full of life, love, and frustration. The Countess is rich, beautiful, and desperately lonely. There is dimension to each character’s comedy, and in it lies their humanity.
The opera is structured as a contest between the Count and his valet. Intellect defies instinct. The privileged struggle against the middle class as the two men confront each other’s masculinity in a bizarre game of chicken. The women are trapped in this testosterone-dominated world (witness Cherubino’s discovery of
the process) and must find ways to turn it against itself. Their partial success produces no conclusion, but only an uneasy truce in C-Major at the opera’s end.
Our production acknowledges the theatricality of Figaro’s schemes by presenting them as pure theater. We describe the “above stair/below stairs” structure of the household as thoroughly as possible. We have chosen the unstable French Revolutionary Period of the Directoire to emphasize the political fragility of the Count’s privilege.
Finally, the humanity of the piece suggests a natural approach to acting and characterization. Comedies usually demand happy endings. Here, Figaro gets his girl, Susanna gets her guy, and the Count and Countess come to an uneasy truce. That’s where we leave them at the end of the day. But then, love is nothing if not folle .
Florence Helen Ashby Marty Beech Malcolm Craig Myron and Judy Hayden
Kirby W. and Margaret-Ray Kemper Howard Kessler and Anne Van Meter Linda and Bob Lovins Meredith and Elsa L. McKinney Bob Parker Gloria Priest Ken and J.R. Saginario
Francis C. Skilling, Jr. Donna Cay Tharpe Dr. Ralph V. Turner
Thank you!
2022–2023
University Symphony Orchestra
Violin I
MaryKatherine Brown‡ Miranda Rojas Stacey Sharpe Rosalee Walsh Maria Mendez
Violin II
Tommaso Bruno* Tyler Tran Masayoshi Arakawa Michael Mesa
Viola Jeremy Hill* Anna Laldin Joshua Singletary Ahdiayah Horton Caroline Burns
Cello Mitchell George* Samantha Schroeder Grace Lege Marina Buruete-Diago Arabella Schwerin Bass Nicholas Smentkowski* Alexander Gay Payton Liebe Flute Crisha Joyner* Pamela Bereuter
Oboe Nic Kanipe* Andrew Swift
Clarinet Maggie Watts* Ciara Solby
Bassoon Ethan Lippert* Emmalee Odom Horn Tarre Nelson* JP Collins
Trumpet Vito Bell* Madison Barton
Timpani Jackson Kowalczyk
Principal
‡ Concertmaster *
About the Cast
Cole Bellamy (Antonio/Ensemble)
Hometown: Olathe, KS
Degree program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 1st year
Other Performances: Governor Bellingham (The Scarlet Letter), The Husband (Amelia Goes to the Ball), Frank (Street Scene), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) with Wichita State University Opera Theatre
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2022
Mary Botter (Marcellina)
Hometown: Jackson, TN
Degree program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 1st year Roles with Florida State University: Ensemble (Die Zauberflöte), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel, Opera Outreach ’21), Ensemble (Der Vampyr)
Other performances: Meg (Falstaff) with Fio Italia
Awards: NATS Semifinalist 2019, 2022
Eric Boylan (Basilio)
Hometown: Traverse City, MI
Degree program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 2nd year Roles with Florida State University: Armored Man (Die Zauberflöte)
Other performances: Samuel (Three Sisters who are not Sisters), Il Buffone (La belle dormente nel bosco), Le Doyen de la Faculté (Cendrillon), Daniel Buchanan (Street Scene) with DePauw University
Jonah Capani (Antonio)
Hometown: Binghamton, NY
Degree Program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 2nd year Roles with Florida State University: Father of the Bride (Transformations)
Other Performances: Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Witness No. 6 (Elizabeth Cree) with Eastman School of Music, Ensemble (La traviata), Ensemble (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with Tri-Cities Opera
Jack Chandler (Count)
Hometown: Arlington, VA
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 3rd year Roles with Florida State University: Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Claudio (Béatrice et Bénedict), Sir Berkley (Der Vampyr), Slim (Of Mice and Men), Schaunard (La bohéme)
Other Performances: Fiorello (Il barbiere di Sivilglia), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Bill Bobstay (H.M.S. Pinafore), Morales/Le Dancaïre (Carmen) with Pensacola Opera
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2021, 2022
Tara Davy (Barbarina)
Hometown: Williamsburg, VA
Degree Program: Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, Sr. Roles with Florida State University: Gretel (Hansel and Gretel, Opera Outreach), Ensemble (Die Zauberflöte)
Other performances: Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance) Virginia Commonwealth University
Awards: NATS Southeast Category winner 2018, Finalist 2022
Brittany Fouché Strine (Susanna)
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 1st year
Other performances: Adele (Die Fledermaus), Little Red/Mr. Swine (The Trial of B.B. Wolf), Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) with First Coast Opera, Jano (Jenůfa) with Des Moines Metro Opera, Micaëla (Carmen) with European Music Academy
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2022, New York Lyric Opera Theatre Competition Finalist 2017
Dawson Franzino (Marcellina)
Hometown: Orlando, FL
Degree Program: Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, Jr. Roles with Florida State University: Isabela (La hija de Rappaccini), Mother (Hansel and Gretel, Opera Outreach), Ensemble (Die Zauberflöte)
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2022
Rebecca Gardner (Cherubino)
Hometown: South Hero, VT
Degree Program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 1st year Roles with Florida State University: Hansel (Hansel and Gretel, Opera Outreach), Ensemble (Die Zauberflöte)
Other performances: Chorus (Der Fliegende Holländer) with Opera Maine
Awards: Charleston International Contemporary Music Competition First Prize 2022
Dylan Glenn (Count)
Hometown: Pleasant Grove, UT
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 3rd year
Roles with Florida State University: Dr. Rappaccini (La hija de Rappaccini), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Charlie (Three Decembers), Gil (The Filthy Habit)
Other performances: Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Tisiphone (Hippolyte et Aricie), The Cobbler (The Juniper Tree) with Cleveland Institute of Music, Will (The Divorce Box) with Cleveland Opera Theater
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2021, 2022, Lotte Lenya Competition 2020, Boris Goldovsky Prize in Opera 2020
Derek Hale (Bartolo)
Hometown: Wortham, TX
Degree Program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 1st year
Other performances: Sir Thomas Bertram (Mansfield Park) with University of Texas Opera, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) with Franco-American Vocal Academy, Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) with Austrian American Mozart Academy
Jennifer Lamont (Cherubino)
Hometown: St. Petersburg, FL
Degree Program: Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, Sr. Roles with Florida State University: Beatriz (La hija de Rappaccini), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Cat (The Filthy Habit)
Other performances: Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance) with St. Pete City Theater, Miss Evangeline Barley/Ensemble (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) with Pinellas County Center for the Arts
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2021
Ye Ji Lee (Susanna)
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 2nd year Roles with Florida State University: Pamina (Die Zauberflöte)
Other performances: Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) with Sungnam Cultural Foundation, Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore) with Korea National Opera, Mademoiselle Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor) with Eastman Opera Theater
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2021, 2022, First Prize Charleston International Contemporary Music Competition 2021, First Prize Friends of Eastman Opera Competition 2020, First Prize NATS Eastern Region 2019
Jabari Lewis (Don Curzio)
Hometown: Kissimmee, FL
Degree Program: Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, Sr. Roles with Florida State University: Witch (Hansel and Gretel, Opera Outreach), Ensemble (Die Zauberflöte)
Other performances: Fenton (Falstaff) with Festival of International Opera Italia, Captain von Trapp (The Sound of Music) with Quincy Music Theatre
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2022, Southeastern Regional NATS Competition 2nd Place 2022, Opera Guild for Atlanta
Coleridge Nash (Figaro)
Hometown: Pfafftown, NC
Degree Program: Graduate MM in Voice Performance ‘22 Roles with Florida State University: Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Postman (The Scarf)
Other performances: Colas (Bastien und Bastienne) with Camerata South, Morales (Carmen) with Janiec Opera Company
Awards: Performing Artist Award 2019 NC State
Elizabeth N Colson Encouragement Award 2022
William Norman (Don Curzio)
Hometown: Columbia, SC
Degree Program: Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, Sr. Roles with Florida State University: Grosvenor (Patience, Opera Outreach), Ensemble (Der Vampyr)
Other performances: Fenton (Falstaff) with Festival of International Opera, Potiphar (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) with Quincy Theater, Chorus (Tosca) with Moran Theater
Awards: NATS Southeast Region 2nd Place 2022, NATS Southeast Region 1st Place 2021
André D. Peele (Figaro)
Hometown: Greenville, NC
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 1st year
Roles with Florida State University: Don Magnifico (La cenerentola), Frank Maurrant (Street Scene), Capulet (Roméo et Juliette)
Other performances: Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) with Peach State Opera, Betto (Gianni Schicchi), Méphistophélès (Faust), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale) with A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute
Blythe Reed (Countess Almaviva)
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 3rd year Roles with Florida State University: The Bride (Transformations), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict), Mimì (La bohème)
Other Performances: Mimì (La bohème), Ghost Voice (Little Women) with Opera in the Ozarks
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2018, 2021, 2022
Anne Elise Teeling (Barbarina)
Hometown: Des Moines, IA
Degree Program: Master’s of Music in Voice Performance, 1st year
Other Performances: Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) with Chicago Summer Opera, The Girl (Rumpled Still Kins), Flora (The Turn of the Screw) with Northwestern University, First Cercatrice (Suor Angelica) with Des Moines Opera
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2022, Classical Singer Vocal Competition Semifinalist 2022, National NATS Semifinalist 2022, Casa Italia IAET Vocal Scholarship Winner 2021
Alireza Tousi (Bartolo)
Hometown: Tehran, Iran
Degree Program: Doctorate in Voice Performance, 2nd year Roles with Florida State University: Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte)
Other Performances: Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with University of Redlands, Capitan (Florencia en al Amazonas), Simone (Gianni Schicchi) with Yale University
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2021, 2022
Sarah Wells (Countess Almaviva)
Hometown: Jacksonville, NC
Degree Program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 3rd year Roles with Florida State University: Anne Sexton (Transformations)
Other Performances: Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Lieschen (Bach’s Coffee Cantata) with UNC Wilmington
Awards: Concerto Competition Award Winner, Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2021
Matthew Youngblood (Basilio)
Hometown: Benton, KY
Degree program: Master of Music in Voice Performance, 2nd year Roles with Florida State University: Dr. Baglioni (La hija de Rappacini), Groom (Transformations), 2nd Priest (Die Zauberflöte)
Other performances: Mr. Erlanson (A Little Night Music)
OperaFest Sewanee, Pluto (Orpheus in the Underworld) with Utah Vocal Arts Academy, Mr. Rushworth (Mansfield Park) with Vanderbilt Opera Theatre, Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro) with Prague Summer Nights
Awards: Hannah J. Beaulieu Competition Winner 2022
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Supertitle Operator
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