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6 WELCOME 8 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME 10 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 15 WAR SONGS: ARMED CONFLICT AS THEATER 18 BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS 21 COMPOSER AND LIBRETTIST 22 SEASON SPONSORS 26 CAST / ARTISTIC STAFF / CHORUS 34 THE STORY OF SILENT NIGHT 37 UTAH SYMPHONY 38 SUPPORT USUO 40 DONORS 52 CRESCENDO & TANNER SOCIETIES 54 ADMINISTRATION 58 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PRELUDE LECTURES Prelude lectures by principal coach Carol Anderson offer insights before each Utah Opera production. This introduction includes historical context, musical highlights, and a behind-the-scenes perspective. Preludes are free with your opera ticket and begin one hour before curtain in the Capitol Room.
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WELCOME On behalf of the board, staff, artists, and musicians of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre for this presentation of the Pulitzer Prizewinning opera Silent Night by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 depicted in this opera is perhaps one of the most well-known instances of a temporary cease fire where soldiers spend time interacting on a human level with those they’ve been fighting only to have to return to battle. To witness this heart-breaking situation many have faced through this live theatrical blend of song and words allows us a powerful opportunity to gain empathetic understanding. By experiencing, together, the emotions of the situation in the heighted way that music allows, we are all connected—audience, cast, and orchestra in a truly meaningful way. We are grateful to our many donors who’ve enthusiastically supported this production, including Utah Opera Season Sponsor the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, Silent Night Production Sponsors the AHE/CI Trust, the Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation, and the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation, and our individual matching donors. Please see p. 22 for a full list of production sponsors and pp. 40–52 for a list of the many generous contributors who support the year-round operations and education initiatives of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. Thank you for attending today’s performance. We hope you will join us throughout the season for memorable productions of musical storytelling that connect our community through great live music here in the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre! Sincerely,
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME Dear Utah Opera friends and family, Happy New Year and welcome to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre. While not uncommon for a real-life event to inspire a work of music and drama, more often than not those creations are in the context of metaphor allowing the work’s creators license for artistic and/or philosophical ends. Alternatively, there are historical occasions so immensely powerful and moving as to inspire artists to create something which honors those occasions with specificity and thereby explore and expand on the dynamics which made a moment so incredibly moving. In this highly celebrated and Pulitzer prize-winning opera, we have the latter.
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As one of this organization’s trustees and donors put it best: “In the midst of war, peace broke out.” The Christmas truce of 1914 during the war to end all wars is well-known and several artists have drawn on the richly human material from that special moment in time. In some cases, one artistic representation has had a part in inspiring another as is the case with this opera, inspired by the 2005 film Joyeux Noël. My hope is that you have the experience I did upon first encountering this piece where the immediacy of live theater combining the remarkable words of Mark Campbell, the extraordinary music of Kevin Puts, and the poignancy of a physical production created by Tomer Zvulun and his team brings you this story in a new and powerfully personal way. My personal thanks to the creators of the opera, the creative team of this award-winning production, the remarkable cast, conductor, orchestra, and production team. Because of everyone involved, we are the recipients of a gift which gives us a glimpse of our own humanity. Yours,
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WAR SONGS Armed Conflict as Theater By Jeff Counts
It was George Bernard Shaw who once described opera as the most expensive invention of man, “second only to war”, but he died in 1950 so he can be forgiven for never having witnessed an Apollo launch or Superbowl Halftime Show. Shaw’s pithy compulsion to compare the cost and complexity of opera to that of war was likely influenced by how often those two very human inventions have been linked on stage throughout history. It goes back at least as far as Monteverdi and his brief First Crusade drama IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA (1624) and continues into our current time with important new works like SILENT NIGHT. Is it surprising that the Christmas Truce of 1914 had not been successfully produced for the opera stage before Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell did it in 2011, given how humane and innately theatrical the story is on paper? It should be, but for most of the preceding centuries, operatic wars, though indeed a plot device with a wide variety of libretto applications, were rarely required to be the setting and the substance. Instead, those projected hostilities served principally as backdrops for more intimate dramas like love, betrayal, honor and struggle. The soldiers of the opera house, as
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common to the art form as wicked stepmothers in fairy tales, were always either just back from or desperately close to shipping out to some off-scene conflict, the seriousness or silliness of which informing their nobility, cunning or plain old joie de vivre, depending on what the story demanded. There are many examples of this, both large and small. The fighting men of Donizetti’s comedy LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (and L’ELISIR D’AMORE to a slightly lesser extent) are an unwitting Greek chorus in most productions, punctuating the libretto’s funny moments with fitting group reactions and harmless military bluster. Their job is to confirm punchlines, not spend time on actual frontlines. But the victorious troops of General Radamès are another matter entirely. When they return to Egypt in Verdi’s AIDA, it is clear that they have been fighting and their famous triumphal march through the gates of the city is an overwhelming spectacle, meant to ensure public favor for their leader and buy him time to figure out how to be with the Ethiopian slave he secretly loves. The list continues. Impending war is cause for good cheer and a rousing toast in Gounod’s FAUST, it is a false pretext for tricking and testing fiancées in Mozart’s COSÌ FAN TUTTE and a punishment for poor conscripted Cherubino in his other comic masterpiece LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. There is a lightness to each of these moments, even in AIDA to a degree, that casually sets aside the realities of war. But that is not always the case. Some libretti do confront the darker truths of armed human conflict, and often do so in intentionally provocative
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WAR SONGS ways. The title character of Berg’s WOZZECK, for instance, is a shellshocked Great War veteran who commits a shocking murder because of the depredations he has witnessed and suffered personally. It is a harrowing and unflinching portrait of war and the people who survive it, one the troubled bomb expert at the heart of Beck’s contemporary chamber drama THE LONG WALK (2015) would certainly understand. Others have tackled the theme more grandly, like Prokofiev’s WAR AND PEACE. Berlioz’s LES TROYENS depicts the ancient sacking of Troy and doesn’t shy away from the horrors that follow such an event. The Trojan War actually features prominently in quite a few operatic creations like Purcell’s DIDO AND AENEAS, Offenbach’s LA BELLE HÉLÈNE and Tippett’s KING PRIAM to name just a few. In each of these more explicit stories, war is front and center contextually, but still mostly beneath the surface for much of the telling. We are not often taken all the way to the trenches. In SILENT NIGHT, however, we are right there with the troops as they fight and then choose for brief moment not to. There is no buffer this time, no narrative contrivances like a memory or a diffuse sense of foreboding to distance us from the truth about the places we send men to die. The miraculous nature of the ceasefire is counterbalanced by the violence immediately preceding
it and, for this story to work, we have to see both, live through it with the soldiers themselves. References to some battle fought sometime before the curtain can’t carry nearly enough weight because what works well for a comedy falls short in a historical drama. It’s humorous when Cherubino is forced by his boss to join the army because we never have to experience what the means for him and when he returns later in the action, it doesn’t seem like he had to experience it either. The contrast between his service and that of Wozzeck’s is stark, and it represents how effortlessly opera can play both sides of such a big thematic template. Shaw’s clever bon mot about the economics of opera and war doesn’t hold up to modern scrutiny. But it is worth recognizing that, of all the performing arts, his attention was drawn to the one most equipped to handle something as fraught and complex as the national confrontations we wage, and he inadvertently pointed us in the direction of something that continues to be a lot more worthy of our wealth. Jeff Counts is General Manager of the Grand Teton Music Festival. He is program annotator and pre-concert lecture host for the NOVA Chamber Music Series and has been writing articles for Utah Opera for over 9 years. Jeff is also one of the hosts for USUO’s Ghostlight podcast.
Utah Opera honors the brave men and women who have served our country. Special recognition goes to our Utah soldiers who lost their lives in WWI.
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BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS By Michael Clive
“Why do the nations rage,” asks the psalmist David, “and the peoples plot in vain?” War is as old as history—perhaps older—but our modern understanding of its horrors began in 1914, when a regional dispute and political assassination unleashed a war such as the world had never known. World War I killed an estimated 40 million people in an era when the world’s population was one-fifth of today’s. For Europe’s combatant countries, it has been compared to evolution in reverse — taking a generation of the fittest, most combat-ready young men, killing them by the millions, disabling the survivors in body and mind, and devastating their families and their countries. The violence was often pointless. If weeks of trench warfare succeeded in moving the battle lines forward a few hundred yards, a few more weeks might find them back where they were before. In the week before Christmas of 1914, French, German and British troops called their own small, temporary halt to the bloody tide. In what became known as the Christmas Truce, they stopped shooting and ventured across the trenches to express holiday greetings, exchange food and souvenirs, play some improvised games, and bury their dead.
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This assertion of humanity in the face of dehumanizing violence was shortlived, occurring in the fifth month of a conflict lasted four more years. The events of the Christmas Truce helped inspire composer Kevin Puts’ and librettist Mark Campbell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night and the 2005 film Joyeux Noel on which it is based. But even before the War was over, artists in every medium and genre knew that art history, like world history, would be eclipsed by it — yet that, somehow, art must help us understand the devastation. BACKGROUND ON SILENT NIGHT
Silent Night is composer Kevin Puts’ first opera. Born in 1972, Puts has been hailed as of the most important composers of his generation. Critically acclaimed for a richly colored, harmonic, and freshly melodic musical voice that has also been described as “emotional, compelling, and relevant,” his works, which include two operas, four symphonies, and several concertos, have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists throughout the world. Campbell consistently demonstrates versatility in subject matter, style, tone, and scale. He is also an advocate for contemporary American opera and mentors future generations of writers through such organizations as American Opera Projects, American Lyric Theatre, the University of Colorado’s New Opera Workshop, Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, and Opera Philadelphia’s Composer-in-Residence Program.
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COMPOSER AND LIBRETTIST
Kevin Puts
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Winner of numerous prestigious awards, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his debut opera Silent Night, Kevin Puts’ works have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading ensembles and soloists throughout the world, including Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Jeffrey Kahane, Dame Evelyn Glennie, the New York Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchester (Zurich), the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Miro Quartet, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Atlanta, Colorado, Houston, Fort Worth, St. Louis, and Minnesota. His newest orchestral work, The City, was co-commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in honor of its 100th anniversary and by Carnegie Hall in honor of its 125th anniversary. His new vocal work Letters From Georgia, written for soprano Renée Fleming and orchestra and based on the personal letters of Georgia O’Keeffe, had its world premiere in New York in Fall 2016, and his first chamber opera, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s gothic novel The Trial of Elizabeth Cree commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, had its world premiere in September 2017, followed by performances with Chicago Opera Theater in February 2018. Kevin is currently a member of the composition department at the Peabody Institute and the Director of the Minnesota Orchestra Composer’s Institute. Mark Campbell’s work as a librettist is at the forefront of the current contemporary opera scene in this country. A prolific writer, Mark has produced twenty-eight opera librettos, lyrics for seven musicals, text for five song cycles and one oratorio and his works for the stage have been performed at more than sixty venues around the world. The composers with whom he collaborates represent a roster of the most eminent composers in classical music and include three Pulitzer Prize winners. Mark consistently demonstrates a versatility in subject matter, style, and tone, an adeptness at creating successful work for both large and intimate venues.
Mark Campbell
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Mark’s best-known work is Silent Night, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music and is one of the most frequently performed operas in recent history. After its premiere at Minnesota Opera, the work was broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances and continues to be produced by many opera companies around the country. His other successful operas include As One, Later the Same Evening, Volpone, Bastianello/Lucrezia, Manchurian Candidate, The Inspector, Approaching Ali, and A Letter to East 11th Street.
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Music by Kevin Puts Libretto by Mark Campbell Based on 2005 film, Joyeux Noël Sung in English, German, French, Latin and Italian Supertitles translated by Mark Campbell Premiere: November 2011; Ordway Theatre, St. Paul Minnesota Utah Opera Premiere CAST
German Side nikolaus sprink Andrew Stenson
Scottish Side jonathan dale Jonathan Johnson
French Side lieutenant audebert Efraín Solís
anna sørensen Abigail Rethwisch**
william dale Stephen Pace
ponchel Daniel Belcher
lieutenant horstmayer Craig Irvin
father palmer Troy Cook
general audebert Kevin Nakatani
kronprinz Addison Marlor*
lieutenant gordon Gabriel Preisser
madeleine audebert Quinn Middleman*
german general Recorded Voice
british major Brandon Bell* ARTISTIC STAFF
Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Tweten Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tomer Zvulun Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conor Hanratty Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michaella Calzaretta Fight Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher DuVal Scenic Designer/Projection Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erhard Rom Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria Tzykun Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Wierzel Associate Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Rawson Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Mayer Wig/Makeup Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kate Casalino Principal Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carol Anderson Assistant Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Taylor Burkhardt* Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephanie L. Canada Assistant Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Stark, Miranda Wilson Supertitle Musician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Hundley This production of Silent Night is an original production of Wexford Festival Opera in partnership with The Atlanta Opera, and Glimmerglass Festival * Utah Opera Resident Artist ** Former Utah Opera Resident Artist The performance will last approximately 2 hours 20 minutes with one 20-minute intermission. UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
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CAST GERMAN SIDE Andrew Stenson (Minnesota)
Nikolaus Sprink Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Magic Flute Recently: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Colorado; Così fan tutte, Ópera Nacional de Chile; An American Soldier, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Upcoming: Orpheus in the Underworld, Madison Opera; Mozart Requiem, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Abigail Rethwisch (Iowa)
Anna Sørensen Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Magic Flute Former Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: The Magic Flute, Dallas Opera; Die Fledermaus, Lucia di Lammermoor, Utah Opera Upcoming: Die Fledermaus, Fort Worth Opera; Messiah, Columbus Symphony Craig Irvin (Iowa)
Lieutenant Horstmayer Most Recently at Utah Opera, Moby-Dick Recently: Elektra, Minnesota Opera; Faust, Omaha Opera Upcoming: Carmina Burana, Des Moines Symphony; Brahms’ Requiem, Worcester Symphony Addison Marlor (Utah)
Kronprinz Most Recently at Utah Opera, La traviata The Michael & Vickie Callen Utah Opera Resident Tenor Recently: Die Zauberflöte, The Little Prince, Utah Opera; Candide, Messiah, Utah Symphony; Sapho, Washington Concert Opera; The Rake’s Progress, Sāvitri, Merola Opera Program;
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CAST SCOTTISH SIDE Jonathan Johnson (Georgia)
Jonathan Dale Utah Opera Debut Recently: Candide, Utah Symphony; The Love for Three Oranges, Opera Philadelphia; Candide, Des Moines Metro Opera; Anna Bolena, Canadian Opera Company Upcoming: Pagliacci, Opera Colorado Eugene Onegin, Palm Beach Opera Stephen Pace (Utah)
William Dale Most Recently at Utah Opera, Romeo and Juliet Recently: La bohème, St. George Opera; Magnvm Opvs, Deer Valley® Music Festival; Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Wasatch Chorale Troy Cook (Kentucky)
Father Palmer Most Recently at Utah Opera, Die Fledermaus Recently: Don Carlo, Washington National Opera; Madama Butterfly, Portland Opera / Central City Opera; La bohème, Opera Philadelphia Upcoming: Lucia di Lammermoor, Lyric Opera of Kansas City Thaïs, Utah Opera Gabriel Preisser (Florida)
Lieutenant Gordon Utah Opera Debut Recently: Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Orlando; Today It Rains, American Opera Project/Opera Parallèle; Trouble in Tahiti, Magic City Opera Upcoming: The Pirates of Penzance, Opera Tampa
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CAST Brandon Bell (Virginia)
British Major Most Recently at Utah Opera, La traviata Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: Messiah, Utah Symphony; La bohème, West Bay Opera; Breaking the Waves, West Edge Opera; La fille du régiment, Opera Saratoga Upcoming: The Barber of Seville, Thaïs, Utah Opera Fellow Travelers, Des Moines Metro Opera FRENCH SIDE Efraín Solís (California)
Lieutenant Audebert Most Recently at Utah Opera, Romeo and Juliet Recently: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera; Roméo et Juliette, Virginia Opera, Opera Carolina, Toledo Opera; Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Memphis Upcoming: La bohème, Fort Worth Opera Daniel Belcher (Missouri)
Ponchel Most Recently at Utah Opera, Die Fledermaus Recently: The Ghosts of Versailles, Chautauqua Opera; Today It Rains, Opera Parallèle; Madama Butterfly, Lyric Opera of Kansas City Upcoming: Edward Tulane, Minnesota Opera; The Sound of Music, Houston Grand Opera Kevin Nakatani (Utah)
General Audebert Most Recently at Utah Opera, La traviata Recently: Le nozze di Figaro, Utah Festival Opera; Il barbiere di Siviglia, Utah Festival Opera; Into the Woods, Utah Festival Opera
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CAST / ARTISTIC STAFF Quinn Middleman (Washington)
Madeleine Audebert Most Recently at Utah Opera, La traviata Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: Messiah, Utah Symphony; The Ghosts of Versailles, Chautauqua Opera; The Scarlet Ibis, Chicago Opera Theatre; Suor Angelica, St. Petersburg Opera Upcoming: Thaïs, Utah Opera; Apprentice Artist, Des Moines Metro Opera ARTISTIC STAFF Robert Tweten (Canada)
Conductor Most Recently at Utah Opera, Romeo and Juliet Recently: Rigoletto, Calgary Opera; Faust, Opera San Antonio; Turandot, Lyric Opera of Chicago Upcoming: La Calisto, New England Conservatory; Don Giovanni, Opera San Antonio Tomer Zvulun (Georgia)
Stage Director Utah Opera Debut Recently: Rigoletto, Houston Grand Opera; Eugene Onegin, Montreal Opera; Dead Man Walking, Israeli Opera Upcoming: Salome, The Atlanta Opera; Madama Butterfly, The Atlanta Opera Conor Hanratty (Ireland)
Associate Director Utah Opera Debut Recently: L’île de Tulipatan, Northern Ireland Opera; The Odd Couple, Everyman Palace; Silent Night, Austin Opera Upcoming: Eugene Onegin, Palm Beach Opera; Paper Boat, Irish National Opera UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
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ARTISTIC STAFF Michaella Calzaretta (Iowa)
Chorus Master Most Recently at Utah Opera, La traviata Recently: 2018–19 Season, Utah Opera; 1812 Overture, Utah Symphony; Candide, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Utah Symphony Upcoming: 2019–20 season, Utah Opera Christopher DuVal (Utah)
Fight Choreographer Most Recently at Utah Opera, Romeo and Juliet Recently: The Play That Goes Wrong, Pioneer Theatre Company; Romeo and Juliet, Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Upcoming: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks Erhard Rom (New York)
Scenic Designer/Projection Designer Most Recently at Utah Opera, Moby-Dick Recently: Le nozze di Figaro, San Francisco Opera; Rigoletto, Houston Grand Opera Upcoming: Don Giovanni, Samson and Delilah, Washington National Opera; Salome, Atlanta Opera Victoria Tzykun (Ukraine)
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An Opera in Three Acts
El Curioso Impertinente (The Impertinent Curiosity) Spanish libretto is adapted from Miguel de Cervantes’ famous story of the same name as narrated in Don Quijote de la Mancha. Music by William Call A recording is nearing completion. Watch for future announcements.
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THE STORY OF SILENT NIGHT PROLOGUE
War is declared. At a Berlin opera house, the announcement interrupts the lives of opera singers Anna Sørensen and Nikolaus Sprink; in a small church in Scotland, it inspires dreams of heroism in William, who demands that his younger brother, Jonathan, enlist with him. In Paris, Madeleine Audebert protests that her husband is leaving while she is pregnant with their first child. Amid the fervor of nationalistic songs, men prepare to go to war. ACT ONE
Battle is engaged between German, French, and Scottish forces. William is shot, and Jonathan is forced to leave him behind. After the battle, Lieutenant Gordon assesses the Scottish casualties and Father Palmer attempts to comfort Jonathan. In his office in the French bunker, Lieutenant Audebert discovers his father, a French general, waiting. He reprimands Audebert for the retreat, and threatens him with a transfer. After the general’s departure, the exhausted Audebert counts the French casualties while longing for Madeleine and their child. As it starts to snow, the soldiers slowly fall asleep. Alone in the German bunker, Nikolaus reveals his despair to the remembered Anna.
for a haircut. Ponchel recalls his daily morning coffee with his beloved mother. Amidst festivities in the Scottish bunker Jonathan writes a letter to his mother omitting the news of his brother’s death. At the chalet, Anna and Nikolaus perform for the Kronprinz. Following the performance, they steal a few moments together, and Anna notices the war’s toll on her lover. She vows to accompany him back to the battlefield. In the Scottish bunker, Father Palmer sings a ballad about the nearness of home. The men in other bunkers react to the song with sadness, caution, and annoyance. Nikolaus returns to the German camp to the cheers of his fellow soldiers, who gasp in amazement when they see Anna. At the conclusion of the Scottish song, Nikolaus responds with a rousing Christmas carol before making overtures of friendship. Raising white flags, the three lieutenants meet in no man’s land and agree to an unofficial ceasefire for Christmas Eve only. Slowly and cautiously, the soldiers move from their trenches and begin to mingle in no man’s land. Anna appears and the soldiers are awed by a woman at the front. Father Palmer improvises an altar and celebrates mass, but Jonathan searches for his brother’s body and vows revenge. ACT TWO
Crates of holiday cheer arrive in the bunkers for Christmas Eve. Lieutenant Horstmayer criticizes the Kronprinz for not sending them more useful presents, like ammunition and reinforcements. Nikolaus is ordered to sing for the Kronprinz at a nearby chalet, where he will rejoin Anna. In the French camp Aide-de-camp Ponchel, a barber, brings coffee to Audebert and sits him down 34
At sunrise, Jonathan tries to bury his brother, but the truce is over. Two German sentries prepare to shoot him but Father Palmer and Lieutenant Gordon intervene. Horstmayer suggests that it might be best if they bury all of their dead and the leaders agree to extend the truce. The soldiers gather their fallen and Father Palmer delivers last rites. A procession UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
THE STORY OF SILENT NIGHT bears the bodies away. Anna looks on and vows that Nikolaus will not suffer the same fate. News of the unofficial ceasefire has reached headquarters for all three armies. The British Major, the Kronprinz, and the French General all react in anger and disbelief, declaring that their soldiers will be punished for fraternizing with the enemy. Lieutenant Horstmayer prepares to resume hostilities and Nikolaus berates him for his blind allegiance to the Fatherland. Threatened with arrest, Anna and Nikolaus cross no man’s land to the French bunker where they request asylum. The British Major informs the Scottish soldiers they are to be transferred to
areas on the front where fighting is fiercest. When the major sees a man in German uniform approaching from the battlefield, he orders him shot and only Jonathan complies. Audebert realizes the soldier was Ponchel in a German overcoat and runs to him. Ponchel has a dying vision of Audebert’s wife and son, who is named Henri. Returning to his small office, Audebert finds his father waiting. The General tells his son that his unit has been disbanded and he will be transferred to an unimportant location called Verdun. The Kronprinz informs the German soldiers that they are to be deployed to the Eastern Front. As the soldiers leave, they hum the Scottish ballad that they heard in the bunker on Christmas Eve.
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CRESCENDO SOCIETY OF UTAH OPERA Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. William C. Bailey Judy Brady & Drew W. Browning Dr. Robert H.† & Marianne Harding Burgoyne Shelly Coburn Dr. Richard J. & Mrs. Barbara N. Eliason Anne C. Ewers Edwin B. Firmage
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ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION Patricia A. Richards
Anthony Tolokan
Interim President & CEO
Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning
David Green
Conner Gray Covington
Senior Vice President & COO
Associate Conductor
Marketing Manager - Audience Development
Julie McBeth
Barlow Bradford
Symphony Chorus Director
Nina Starling
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Collette Cook
Walt Zeschin
Executive Assistant to the Sr. VP and COO & Office Manager
OPERA ARTISTIC Christopher McBeth Opera Artistic Director
Carol Anderson
Director of Orchestra Personnel
Andrew Williams
Orchestra Personnel Manager
Lance Jensen
Executive Assistant to the Music Director Symphony Chorus Manager
Michelle Peterson
SYMPHONY OPERATIONS Cassandra Dozet
Opera Company Manager
Director of Orchestra Operations
Michaella Calzaretta
Melissa Robison
Principal Coach
Opera Chorus Master
Brooke Yadon Opera Production Coordinator
OPERA TECHNICAL Jared Porter
Senior Technical Director
Kelly Nickle
Costume Rentals Supervisor
Kierstin Gibbs LisaAnn DeLapp Rentals Assistants
Amanda Reiser Meyer Wardrobe Supervisor
Milivoj Poletan Tailor
Tiffany Lent
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Donna Thomas
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Connie Warner Stitcher
Kate Henry
Operations Manager
Jeff F. Herbig
Artist Logistics Coordinator
Robyne Anderson
2nd Assistant Stage Manager
DEVELOPMENT Leslie Peterson
Vice President of Development
Jessica Proctor
Director of Institutional Giving
Olivia Custodio
Director of Individual Giving
Heather Weinstock
Director of Special Events & DVMF Donor Relations
Lisa Poppleton Grants Manager
Nikki Orlando
Development Operations Manager
Ali Snow
Annual Fund Coordinator
Hope Bird Bryn Campbell Michelle Liano
Ellesse Hargreaves
SYMPHONY ARTISTIC Thierry Fischer
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PATRON SERVICES Faith Myers
Director of Patron Engagement
Merry Magee
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Hallie Wilmes
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Sarah Pehrson Jackie Seethaler Powell Smith
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Jessica Cetrone
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Chip Dance
Dusty Terrell
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Robert Bedont
Genevieve Gannon
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COSTUMES Verona Green
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Program Publication & Front of House Director
Properties Master Scenic Charge Artist
Kathleen Sykes
Development Assistant
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jon Miles RenĂŠe Huang
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ACCOUNTING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Steve Hogan
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EDUCATION Paula Fowler
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Symphony Education Manager
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PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES • Students experience unique access to Utah Opera’s professional staff and guest artists. • Music and Theatre Departments receive support for school musical and music competitions. • Students have opportunities onstage in The Barber of Seville. • West’s A Cappella Choir learns opera choruses for side-by-side performance with members of the Utah Opera Chorus on March 17, 2020.
“West High School Performing Arts Department has been adopted by Utah Opera!...The experiences and opportunities that these students are participating in are once in a lifetime! Thank you so much, Utah Opera!” – Stacey Hutchings, West High School Theatre Teacher
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he year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution and the 150th anniversary of the first vote under a women’s suffrage law, which happened in Salt Lake City. In recognition of these milestones, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera’s 2020 cultural festival will highlight the achievements of women and create opportunities for them in the field of classical music, particularly as composers and conductors. Activities include performances of original works, artist presentations, and masterclasses.
SPECIAL EVENT: On February 14, join us at the Clubhouse (850 E So Temple) on the 150th anniversary of the actual day of the first vote by a Utah woman, also the first vote by a woman in the United States. A reception with light refreshments and beverages begins at 7 pm, followed by a performance of Women of Notes by the Utah Opera Resident Artists at 8 pm. The performance includes two miniature operas by female composers with Utah roots. Tickets are $25, available at the USUO Ticket Office, or online at utahopera.org/cultural-festival. For a full list of festival activities, go to utahopera.org/festival. #WomenOfNotes
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Sarah Hicks Conductor
Stephanie Rhodes Russell Conductor
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