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6 Welcome 8 Artistic Director’s Welcome 10 Board of Trustees 15 Utah Opera Chorus Community 17 Opera Reminiscences 20 Production Sponsors 22 Synopsis 27 Cast / Artistic Staff 34 Composer & Librettists 37 Bring on the Champagne! 42 Support USUO 43 Utah Symphony 44 Thank You 60 Legacy Giving 61 Crescendo & Tanner Societies 62 Administration 64 Acknowledgments 65 Education
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Welcome On behalf of the artists, musicians, board, and staff of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre and the finale of Utah Opera’s 40th anniversary season, Johann Strauss Jr.’s effervescent Die Fledermaus.
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When Glade Peterson established the company in 1978, he did so not only to introduce high quality opera to Utah but also to develop a love of the art form in our youth throughout the state. One of the signature initiatives created in the early years of Utah Opera was a touring group of singers who would perform opera in Utah’s schools. This program has flourished over 40 years, and our Resident Artists continue to reach beyond the stage to communities throughout Utah, sharing their passion for opera and the voice with 65,000 students in nearly 300 public schools every year. The program also gives these emerging singers and pianists the opportunity to work with this professional company, observing and performing with the artists who headline the casts. Today’s performance features current and former Resident Artists. Abigail (Abby) Rethwisch, who is a current member of the program and stepped in at the eleventh hour to sing the title role in last season’s Lucia di Lammermoor, will be singing Adele—her colleagues Melanie Ashkar and Christopher Oglesby will portray supporting roles. And Abigail (Abi) Levis, a member of our 2013–14 and 2014–15 RA program and frequent guest since her tenure, returns to sing Prince Orlofsky. Thank you for joining us today. When we see the excited faces of people entering and leaving the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, it is a wonderful reminder of the legacy of our education and outreach programs which have connected our community members through great live music for generations. Sincerely, Paul Meecham
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Artistic Director’s Welcome Dear Utah Opera friends and family, I hope you’ve enjoyed our 40th Anniversary Season. For me it was wonderful to re-visit our company’s beginnings with La bohème, honor our organization’s founder in Pagliacci, and bring to life one of the most successful 21st century works while showcasing Utah Opera’s abilities in a brand new production (which will literally have its own ocean voyage when it travels to Europe in 2020) of Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick! The staff of Utah Opera is honored to have entertained you over the season and looks forward to the next forty years of opera in Salt Lake City.
Christopher McBeth Artistic Director
We end this anniversary season with the ultimate party opera: Die Fledermaus. Full of twists and turns, initiated by a fraternity prank-like shenanigan, the story shows us wonderfully human characters and is enveloped in swirling dance music. What could be a more fun celebratory conclusion? For this special presentation, we have brought back some of our most beloved performers from the last decade to help us celebrate: GRAMMY Award winner Daniel Belcher, last with us for The Merry and Widow and The Long Walk; soprano favorite Sara Gartland, from our most recent La traviata; Troy Cook, the voice of wisdom and kindness as Sharpless in Madame Butterfly (who made an unplanned early appearance this season as the voice of Marcello for an ailing colleague); Abigail Levis, as the darling Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro; Robert Breault, local favorite and part of multiple productions; and Abigail Rethwisch, who stepped in and saved the day just last season in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor join others to make this a particularly special occasion. Maestro Gary Wedow will lead the Utah Symphony in Strauss Jr’s rousing waltz-filled music and Kyle Lang, who brought us the fantastic choreography in The Merry Widow and Man of la Mancha makes his very appropriate directing debut for the company. Thank you for joining us during this very special season and this evening’s fun and frothy music and theater. If, like me, you feel like dancing I wouldn’t blame you. Sincerely,
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Utah Opera Chorus Community By Carolyn Klassen
Photo Credit: Dana Sohm, Utah Opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
Members of the Utah Opera or the Bell Chorus from our March Chorus play a special part in opera production of Pagliacci. productions: together, we create the social environment within which the Just like the communities we create on stories of the main characters take stage, the Utah Opera Chorus is made place. The communities we are called up of people from many walks of life, on to create are diverse. Whether with personalities large and small. We the setting is Paris at Christmas time are teachers, accountants, healthcare for La bohème, the court of Princess providers, students, cashiers, and IT Turandot or the downtrodden Okies professionals. Several of us work for in The Grapes of Wrath, the chorus Utah Symphony | Utah Opera in various helps define the town, neighborhood, administration capacities. or party the composer and stage director envision. We take you The process of taking an opera from outside the bullring for Carmen “page to stage” begins with several weeks and into the masked ball in Die of musical preparation with the Chorus Fledermaus. And we often get to sing Master. We learn and perfect pitches, music composed just for us: music rhythms, and language. In addition to written for choruses is some of the the traditional opera languages, Italian, most beautiful and recognizable in French, German, and English, we have all of opera. For just a few examples, even performed operas in Russian and remember “The Anvil Chorus” from Il Czech! When the principal singers, trovatore (or any other Verdi chorus!), conductor, and stage director arrive, we the priests’ scene in The Magic Flute, have the music memorized and are ready Continued on page 16… UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
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make-up all make the piece come alive. There truly is magic when the final layer—the orchestra—is added. Utah Opera Chorus members reaudition each season. Several of our current members have sung in the chorus for over 25 years! We are chosen to participate based on the needs of each show. A Mozart opera typically utilizes 16–20 singers. This season’s Moby-Dick required 34 male singers and Aida (our largest chorus show to date) is scored for two choruses: a total of 65 singers.
to learn our movement. In addition to the vocal stamina required of us, there can be physical demands such as dancing or long periods of freezing in place while the action is focused elsewhere on stage. Each chorus member creates a particular character based on director guidance and the costume made for us by the world class Utah Opera Costume shop. Attention to detail with individual costume fittings ensure each piece is tailored to fit us so we look our best. Over the course of just three weeks, the opera takes shape as we continue to add new elements. The props, lighting, costumes, wigs, and
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The excellent reputation of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera attracts world class artists to perform principal roles. It is a great privilege for the chorus to share the stage with these singers. It is a thrill to stand just a few feet away from these artists, as they give voice to their characters. Being in the Utah Opera chorus can be hard work, but it yields great rewards. We take great pride and joy in creating memorable on-stage communities for our audience. Carolyn Talboys-Klassen has been singing with the Utah Opera since 1989 and has appeared in 75 productions—many of those with her husband Thomas Klassen and their children Matthew and Kate. When she’s not singing, she is an IT Manager at University of Utah Health.
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Opera Reminiscences By Nelson LeDuc
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As I sit here getting ready to go on stage for Utah Opera’s production of Pagliacci/Gianni Schicchi, I can’t help but being drawn back 30 years to the spring of 1988, when the company presented this exact same double bill. That was the very first opera I ever saw. I grew up listening to opera music in our household, but had never actually seen an opera. Having recently discovered I could sing, I had performed with the South Davis Community Choir in a production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and had thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I was considering auditioning for the Utah Opera chorus, and so I figured I should see what I was planning on UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
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getting myself into. I took my seat in the very last row of the balcony at the Capitol Theatre. And as soon as the chorus streamed onstage and began singing and acting, I knew that was what I wanted to do! Little did I suspect at that time, but in the very next production that Utah Opera put on, Lucia di Lammermoor in October of that year, I would be one of those choristers taking the stage. That production was founder Glade Peterson’s penultimate opera. He sang Arturo against Roberta Peters’ Lucia. This was only the first of many memorable moments that participation with the company has given me. These memories are far too many to recount here, but I would love to list just a few that stand out for me. Two of my favorite productions have been Samson et Dalila and The Tales of Hoffman. Hoffman was one of my dad’s favorites. He had passed away a few years prior and so I quietly dedicated my performance to him, even adopting some of his physical mannerisms on stage. The Grapes of Wrath and Moby-Dick were unforgettable experiences. And on top of that, I’ve had a better-than-front-row “seat” for some of the most awe-inspiring music I’ve ever experienced. Jan Grissom’s Lucia had me in tears every single time she sang her “mad scene”—right through the final matinee performance. And seeing and hearing Kelly Kaduce sing Liù’s death scene in Turandot, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written in my opinion, from a distance of approximately five feet is a rare privilege. 18
Singing with the Utah Opera chorus has given me some of the greatest musical experiences of my life. In addition, it has allowed me to meet some incredible people. Not only fellow choristers, but solo artists, conductors, directors, stage crew, and so many others who are not only immensely talented but have proven to be some of the most generous and caring people I’ve ever encountered. I am exceptionally grateful to have had this experience. Nelson LeDuc joined the Utah Opera Chorus in 1988. Die Fledermaus marks his 80th production singing with Utah Opera. Off the Capitol Theatre stage, he is a web software engineer at the University of Utah and is currently pursuing a degree in music composition at the University of Utah.
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Die Fledermaus
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Die Fledermaus May 12, 14, 16, 18 | 7:30 pm May 20 | 2 pm Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre Composed by Johann Strauss II Original German libretto by Karl Haffner & Richard GenĂŠe English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin English dialogue by Charles Ludlam Supertitles prepared by Utah Opera Premiere: April 5, 1874, Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria Previously at Utah Opera: 1983, 1989, 2003
CAST Rosalinde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara Gartland Adele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Rethwisch* Eisenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Belcher Alfred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Breault Dr. Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Oglesby* Dr. Falke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Troy Cook Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Clayton Ida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melanie Ashkar* Prince Orlofsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Levis** Frosch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tobin Atkinson
ARTISTIC STAFF Stage Director/Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Lang Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gary Thor Wedow Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michaella Calzaretta Set Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Keith Brumley Lighting Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driscoll Otto Costume Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Memmott Allred Wig/Makeup Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kate Casalino Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayme Marrs Castle Asst. Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Lewandowski Principal Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carol Anderson Guest Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallas Heaton Rehearsal Pianist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Bosworth* Set Rented from Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Costumes built by Utah Opera. See page 62 for full list of Utah Opera Company. The performance will last approximately 3:00 hours, with two intermissions (twenty and fifteen minutes). *Current Utah Opera Resident Artist **Previous Utah Opera Resident Artist UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
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Die Fledermaus
synopsis
Act I: 19th century Vienna, New Year’s Eve A lovely tenor voice is heard outside the dwelling of wealthy Gabriel von Eisenstein. The serenade is for the mistress of the house, Rosalinde. The family maid, Adele, enters, scheming to convince Rosalinde to give her the night off. Adele hopes to attend Prince Orlovsky’s ball to which her sister has invited her. Adele invents the excuse of a sick aunt, but her mistress refuses, stating that she requires company that evening. Her husband may have to serve a brief jail sentence; he is currently at court pleading for acquittal for assaulting a train ticket taker.
evening clothes to jail, but she is too distracted by Alfred’s singing to remain suspicious. Rosalinde and Eisenstein openly lament their upcoming separation but, along with Adele, each rejoices in their secret evening plans. After Eisenstein’s departure, Rosalinde changes her mind and grants Adele’s request to visit her aunt. She intends to meet with Alfred and tell him his dreams of a future with her are hopeless. Alfred arrives, anticipating a romantic tête- à- tête but they are interrupted by Warden Frank who has come to cart Eisenstein off to jail. In order to preserve the lady’s virtue, Alfred agrees to pose as Eisenstein and to begin serving his sentence.
The serenading tenor, Alfred, a former Act II: flame of Rosalinde’s, enters the house Orlofsky’s Villa full of passion and declares his undying The ball is in full swing at the villa love for her. She resists his advances, of Prince Orlofsky. The prince is a but as he leaves, Alfred swears to return melancholy man who often pays for if Eisenstein is sent to jail. Eisenstein someone to entertain him; tonight, and his lawyer, Dr. Blind, arrive fresh he hopes to be amused by Falke’s from a session in court arguing furiously. promised diversion, “The Bat’s Blind has bungled the court hearing, Revenge.” Adele, now wearing one and the prison time has been extended. of Rosalinde’s dresses, is shocked Blind leaves the couple alone to make to learn that she was not invited to plans for Eisenstein’s jail sentence, the ball by her sister, Ida, but rather but they are interrupted by Dr. Falke, by Falke, who clearly has mischief in a close friend of Eisenstein. When mind. A Frenchman, Marquis Renard Rosalinde goes in search of some (actually Eisenstein in disguise) is old clothes for her husband’s jail stay, presented to the Prince who, after Dr. Falke invites Eisenstein to Prince an awkward exchange, proposes a Orlofsky’s ball, declaring that prison champagne toast. Adele is introduced can wait until morning. He insists that as Mademoiselle Olga, a Russian Eisenstein bring his very unique watch, countess, and is immediately which is always certain to fascinate the recognized by Eisenstein as his wife’s ladies, and exits. maid; she adroitly brushes him off with references to his own concealed Eisenstein confuses Rosalinde identity. Prison warden Frank arrives by suddenly insisting on wearing in the guise of the Chevalier de
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Chagrin, and he and Eisenstein attempt to maintain their pretenses using schoolboy French. Rosalinde, wearing a mask, arrives dressed as a mysterious masked Hungarian countess. Falke, the master puppeteer who is pulling all the strings, introduces her to Marquis Renard who proceeds to demonstrate his watch— which she cleverly steals. She defends her Hungarian heritage in a rousing gypsy serenade. The revelry continues as Orlofsky makes a toast to champagne and Eisenstein tries to retrieve his watch from the Hungarian countess to no avail. Finally Eisenstein and Frank realize they’re supposed to be at the jail and rush off. Act III: Jail Singing pours forth from one of the cells to the annoyance of Frosch the jailer, who has been tippling in the absence of the warden. Frank arrives, bewitched by the glorious time he experienced at the party and still quite inebriated. Ida and Adele enter in search of the Chevalier de Chagrin (Frank), and the maid reminds Frank of his promises to put her on the stage. She demonstrates
her acting ability by doing some impersonations and then the ladies retire to the “reception room.” Eisenstein, still playing Marquis Renard, enters and learns that someone else has been arrested in his stead. He encounters his lawyer Dr. Blind, recently retained as counsel by Alfred, and quickly they exchange clothes so Eisenstein can confront Alfred. When Rosalinde enters, she does not recognize her husband and pleads for Alfred’s release and a divorce from her husband. Eisenstein reveals himself and plays the victim until Rosalinde points out that he was himself having a merry old time, and produces the watch as proof. Orlofsky and his guests enter just in time to grasp the whole story, and the Prince dissolves in laughter at the results of Falke’s plot. Eisenstein reunites with Rosalinde after blaming champagne for his behavior. Orlofsky offers to sponsor Adele’s acting career, and mighty champagne, nectar of the gods, is praised by all. Judy Vander Heide has been a supporter of Utah Opera for many years, both as an individual and through her leadership of the Ogden Opera Guild. She serves on the board of Opera Volunteers International and is a proud member of the Crescendo Society of Utah Opera.
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Sara Gartland (Minnesota) Rosalinde Most Recently at Utah Opera, La traviata Recently: Rusalka, Arizona Opera; La bohème, San Diego Opera; Fidelio, Opera Omaha Upcoming: Rusalka, Des Moines Metro Opera; Hansel and Gretel, San Diego Opera Abigail Rethwisch (Iowa) Adele Most Recently at Utah Opera, Gianni Schicchi Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: Lucia di Lammermoor, Utah Opera; Die Fledermaus, The Santa Fe Opera; Great American Road Trip, Messiah, Utah Symphony Upcoming: Ariadne auf Naxos, The Santa Fe Opera Daniel Belcher (Missouri) Eisenstein Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Long Walk Recently: The Threepenny Opera, Boston Lyric Opera; The House Without a Christmas Tree, Houston Grand Opera; Elizabeth Cree, Opera Philadelphia Upcoming: Madama Butterfly, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Today It Rains, Opera Parallèle Robert Breault (Utah) Alfred Most Recently at Utah Opera, Salome Recently: Tosca, Opera Idaho; Otello, Opera Fort Collins; Ariadne auf Naxos, Festival Opera Upcoming: Soloist, Florida Bach Festival; I dialoghi delle Carmelitane (Director), La Musica Lirica UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
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Abigail Levis (Maine) Prince Orlofsky Most Recently at Utah Opera, Le nozze di Figaro Recently: Trouble in Tahiti/At the Statue of Venus, Opera Parallèle; La traviata, Dallas Opera; War Stories, Opera Philadelphia Upcoming: Le nozze di Figaro, Charlottesville Opera; Don Giovanni, Lucerne Opera Tobin Atkinson (Utah) Frosch Utah Opera Debut Recently: The Crucible, Twelve Angry Men, Pioneer Theatre Company; Beowulf, Meat & Potato Theatre Company; Radio Hour: Frankenstein, Plan B Theatre Company
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Die Fledermaus
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Michaella Calzaretta (Iowa) Chorus Master Most Recently at Utah Opera, Pagliacci/Gianni Schicchi Recently: Patience, University Gilbert and Sullivan Society; In Memoriam, Marilyn’s Room, New Voices Opera; Peter Grimes, Carmen, Indiana University Opera Theater Upcoming: 1812 Overture Concert, Deer Valley® Music Festival; Utah Opera 2018–19 season R. Keith Brumley Set Design Most recently at Utah, Don Giovanni Recently: Billy Budd, Turandot, Des Moines Metro Opera; Dead Man Walking, Lyric Opera of Kansas City Upcoming: Flight, Des Moines Metro Opera; Turandot, New Orleans Opera Driscoll Otto (Texas) Lighting Design Utah Opera Debut Recently: The Golden Cockerel, The Santa Fe Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor, Virginia Opera; La donna del lago, Metropolitan Opera; The Barber of Seville, Lyric Opera Kansas City; Iolanta, Chicago Opera Theatre Susan Memmott Allred (Utah) Costume Design Most Recently at Utah Opera, Gianni Schicchi Recently: PBS Christmas Special with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir 2017; Resident Designer, Utah Opera, 1979–2011; Mormon Miracle Pageant; Utah Shakespeare Festival; Southern Utah State College
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Kate Casalino (New York CIty) Wig/ Makeup Design Most Recently at Utah Opera, Gianni Schicchi/Pagliacci Recently: The Children, Manhattan Theater Club; Love Never Dies (1st National Tour), Networks; Glimmerglass Opera; 2017 Assistant Hair & Makeup Design Upcoming: Saint Joan, Manhattan Theater Club; Getty‘s Scare Pair, LA Opera
Die Fledermaus
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UTAH OPERA CHORUS Keanu Aiono-Netzler Julie Barker Jessica Benson Anthony Buck Cody Carlson Matthew Castleton Clarisse Colao Rachel Cooke Chad DeMaris Natalie Easter Steven Finkelstein Merrill Flint Paula Fowler
Elijah Hancock Paul Leland Hill Kaily Jacobs Kyleene Johnson Karllen Johnson Hilary Koolhoven Phillip A. Lammi Nelson LeDuc Ivana Martinic Julie McBeth Rhea Miller Daniel Nichols Dale Nielsen
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Die Fledermaus
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Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825–June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr. or the Younger, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely then responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Vienna had been captivated by Offenbach’s numerous operettas. When Strauss, one of their own, began to embrace this musical form, the public was delighted. Translating literally as ‘The Bat’, Die Fledermaus was written over a two-year period from 1873 and is entirely frivolous in nature. Strauss himself was at the podium for the very first performance of Die Fledermaus, which took place at the Theater an der Wien on 5 April 1874. Karl Haffner achieved his first major success with the romantic-comic folktale The Marble Heart, which received a second prize in 1841 and premiered on April 21 of the year at the Theater an der Wien. Besides dramas, Haffner also wrote more than 30 volumes of novels. One of them, Scholz and Nestroy, contains various aspects of the story of his life. Together with Richard Genée he wrote the libretto of the operetta Die Fledermaus. In 1955, the Haffnergasse was named after him in Vienna Donaustadt (22nd district of Vienna). Richard Genée was a Prussian born Austrian librettist, playwright, and composer. He is most famous for the libretto of Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss II’s most famous operetta. He co-wrote the libretto without having met top-billed librettist Karl Haffner, who constructed the new story based on a play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, which was considered too shocking to perform outside Paris. Genée, however, wrote the operetta’s actual text and drew nothing from Haffner beyond the names of the characters. Genée was born in Danzig. He died at Baden bei Wien. 34
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You can like the life you’re livin’ You can live the life you like You can even marry Harry But mess around with Ike And that’s good Isn’t it grand? Isn’t it great? Isn’t it swell? Isn’t it fun? Isn’t it? But nothing stays In fifty years or so It’s gonna change, you know But oh, it’s heaven Nowadays
In the musical Chicago, the heavenly life extolled by Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly—full of bawdry, booze and bullets—seems about as far removed from the hyper-refined elegance of old Vienna as you can get. But look more closely and you’ll find that they are strikingly similar. As far as the heroine and hero of Die Fledermaus are concerned, the lines “You can even marry Harry / But mess around with Ike” might as well be the scouts’ oath. Rosalinde and Gabriel von Eisenstein are typical of the pleasure-seeking aristos we see at play in many Viennese operettas. For them, the appearance of matrimonial propriety is crucial; the reality of their marriage vows is another matter entirely. Gabriel and Rosalinde can’t wait to duck out on each other for some not-so-innocent flirtation, and in their pursuit of fun we can detect the same desperation that haunts those insistent questions in Chicago: Isn’t it grand? Isn’t it great? Isn’t it swell?
Behind the bubbly, the gowns and the gaiety lurks a terror of things to come: “But nothing stays / In fifty years or so / It’s gonna change, you know.” Fifty years seems an ironic choice of time span when we note that fifty years after the premiere of Die Fledermaus in 1874, Austria and its neighbors were in ruins in the wake of World War I, with the Weimar Republic floundering in Germany and the horrors of Nazism on their way. Somehow it was as if the Viennese, like Roxie and Velma, knew what was coming. The gaiety of Viennese operetta, with its wit, glitter and most of all its swirling waltzes and polkas, was an assertion of ebbing values in the face of dread. Author Paul Hoffman, who had been Vienna bureau chief for The New York Times, captured this ambivalence in his book The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile: The city that inspired Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, the capital of Gemütlichkeit, of hand-kissing and the waltz, of coffeehouses and wine taverns in the green, of whipped cream and the annual opera ball, has long had one of the highest suicide rates in the world. When Sigmund Freud started investigating hysteria and other neuroses in the late nineteenth century, he found an ominous welter of case histories in the seemingly placid city on the Danube. Well, if you couldn’t be analyzed by Sigmund Freud, you could go to that popular operetta Die Fledermaus… Continued on page 39…
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then just sit back and enjoy the Gemütlichkeit and hand-kissing, the pranks and flirtations, as expressed in a chefs-oeuvre of waltzes, polkas and sumptuous vocal display. There is something luxurious and perhaps therapeutic about this effervescent music and its sheer abundance of melody. Die Fledermaus raises Viennese nostalgia and Viennese dance music to their highest level. Now, let’s get our Strausses straight: Die Fledermaus was composed by Johann Strauss Jr., who in his own lifetime was less famous than his father. They were only two of a dynasty of composer-bandleaders who built thriving businesses on the Viennese penchant for social dancing. A waltz by the elder Johann may sound delightfully indistinguishable from one by his son Johann Jr. or by Johann Jr.’s prominent composer-siblings. But the Strausses all had two crucial elements in common: the city of Vienna and the Viennese waltz, which they jointly perfected in the form we know today. Both successful composers and bandleaders, Johann and Johann Jr. engaged in a long and surprisingly bitter rivalry. In his day, it was the elder Johann who was known as the “waltz king,” a title now accorded to his son. But Johann Jr. lived longer and wrote more of the inspired waltzes so familiar to modern listeners the world over— waltzes like “On the Beautiful Blue Danube.” Born in 1825, he composed Die Fledermaus when he was 48. Though based on a French farce,
Die Fledermaus occupies a special place in Austrian national culture, representing the quintessence of 19th-century Viennese elan. In its plot—a typically vapid confection of pranks, mistaken identities, flirtation and champagne—we see a social order in which appearances count far more than reality: With the bourgeois Eisenstein about to be escorted to jail for an eight-day sentence incurred for insulting a bureaucrat, his wife Rosalinde’s amorous Italian singing teacher, Alfred, is hiding in their drawing room. Because his presence could appear to compromise Rosalinde’s honor, Alfred agrees to take her husband’s place when the prison governor arrives. This frees Eisenstein to attend a ball that night at the opulent digs of Prince Orlofsky, where his wife and his maid, Adele, will be in attendance—both in disguise. It’s all part of the master plan of Dr. Falke to exact revenge on his friend Eisenstein for the aftermath of a previous revel when Falke was himself disguised as a Fledermaus (bat) and abandoned in a drunken stupor. Dizzy yet? Look closely at this glittering world and you may discover some similarities between 19th-century European operettas and the dazzling, escapist movie musicals of the 1930s, or even more recent television sitcoms. Everybody has money, but nobody seems to work. Beautiful clothes and elegant furnishings are everywhere. The only thing more important than being a good party guest is being a good party host. It’s all great fun. But look harder and you may also see a Continued on page 41…
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core of decadence: Marital fidelity is honored in the breach. Children and family life are nowhere to be seen. Nothing matters so much that it need be taken seriously, including the law. If there is a philosophy behind all this laissez-faire enjoyment, it is sung by Orlofsky’s party guests at the end of Act I: “Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was nicht mehr zum ändern ist.” A very rough translation: If you can’t do anything about it, let it go. The overture to Die Fledermaus whisks us into this world with crisp chords and whirling arpeggios. This energetic opening, which requires alert players for razor-sharp attacks, captures all the gaiety that is to come. The now-familiar melodies flow like wine. While the music sparkles on its own, once you’ve seen Die Fledermaus all those addictive tunes will forever be associated with plot points in the exuberant comedy. For example, the chimes we hear early on signify the hour when Prince Orlofsky’s eagerly awaited ball is set to begin; later we hear the higher, bell-like chimes of the fancy repeater watch that Eisenstein’s wife, in disguise, will win from him through some skillful flirting. It’s no accident that those repeating bells evoke the rhythm of a chase. And when the orchestra seems to titter on three successive notes—that’s another lady in disguise, the chambermaid Adele, feigning bemused outrage in her “laughing song.” It all flows seamlessly, with complete naturalness. But listen carefully and you’ll notice that these delicious melodies are actually set to dance UTAHOPERA.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE
rhythms that had very particular meaning for the Viennese of the 1870s—at least, the kind of uppercrust Viennese who might be invited to the palace of an expatriate Russian prince along with the Eisensteins and the Falkes. To us, the drowsy triple rhythm of “Glücklich ist” sounds like a waltz; it is actually considered a “polka-mazurka.” (The mazurka is also a dance in triple rhythm.) When we hear the halting triple-rhythm of another chorus, “Brüderlein und Schwesterlein,” the tempo is similar but the dance is a simple mazurka. At that point in the alcohol-soaked evening, that’s about all Prince Orlofsky’s guests can handle. Hearing these themes, we are almost rendered breathless; the energy does not flag even when the pace slows. But once the action of the operetta begins, the music is more closely calibrated to the pace of the action and the drinking. Die Fledermaus is not exactly a cautionary tale, but it does all start with a practical joke, move on to a party, and end up in jail. All ends happily, but the moral, if there is one, is hard to find. To this day, the Viennese don’t sing “Auld lang syne;” they sing “Glücklich ist.” Michael Clive’s writing on music and the arts has appeared in publications throughout the U.S. and in the U.K., as well as on the Internet (for Classical TV.com and Classical Review) and television (for the PBS series Live From Lincoln Center). He is program annotator for the Utah Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony, and is editor-inchief of The Santa Fe Opera. 41
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Thomas & Barbara O’Byrne O. Don & Barbara Ostler Dr. S. Keith & Barbara Petersen Ray Pickup Victor & Elizabeth Pollak Dan & June Ragan W.E. & Harriet R. Rasmussen Dr. Richard & Frances Reiser Joyce Rice James & Anna Romano Kenneth Roach & Cindy Powell Thomas Safran John F. Foley, M.D. & Dorene Sambado, M.D. Margaret P. Sargent Shirley & Eric Schoenholz Barbara & Paul Schwartz William G. Schwartz & Joann Givan Dewellyn Selberg Thomas & Gayle Sherry Mary & Doug Sinclair Diana & Paul Smith Gibbs† & Catherine W. Smith Christine St. Andre & Cliff Hardesty Richard & Janet Thompson Verl & Joyce Topham Mr. & Mrs. Glen R. Traylor Karen Urankar Joseph Urban Susan & David† Wagstaff John & Susan Walker Susan Warshaw Bryan & Diana Watabe Ardean† & Elna Watts Suzanne Weaver & Charles Boynton Dan & Amy Wilcox David & Jerre Winder Catherine Wong Gayle & Sam Youngblood
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Thank You PATRON $1,500 to $2,449 Anonymous (2) Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Anderson Barry Bergquist Roger & Karen Blaylock Shauna Bona Mr. & Mrs. Lee Forrest Carter Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Coppin David & Carol Coulter Donald Dalton Kathleen & Frank Dougherty Ashby & Anne Cullimore Decker James & Rula Dickson Donald Dalton Margaret Dreyfous Katherine W.† & E.R. Dumke, Jr. Robert S. Felt, M.D. William Fickling Heidi Gardner Dr. & Mrs. John Greenlee Ronald & Kaye Gunnell Arlen Hale Geraldine Hanni Drs. Carolyn & Joshua Hickman
Caroline & David Hundley James Hynes Drs. Randy & Elizabeth Jensen Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. Kalm Carl & Gillean Kjeldsberg Guttorm & Claudia Landro Tim & Angela Laros Gary & Suzanne Larsen Anne Lee & Claude Halter Dr. Vivian S. Lee & Mr. Benedict Kingsbury James Lether Lisa & James Levy Ronald W. Tharp & Kate F. Little Peter† & Susan Loffler Dennis & Pat Lombardi Ross & Kathleen Matthews Warren K. & Virginia G. McOmber George & Linda Mendelson Brad & Trish Merrill Dr. Nicole L. Mihalopoulos & Joshua Scoville
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David Mortensen & RoseMarie Brittner Mahyera Ruth & William Ohlsen Michael & Leslie O’Malley Robert & Catherine Pedersen Ann G. Petersen Mr. David A. Petersen Jana Ramacher David & Lois Salisbury Grant Schettler Whittney Thomas Jill & Richard Sheinberg Barbara Slaymaker Payam Tristani Ann & Steven Tyler Rachel Varat-Navarro Erik & Linda Watts Mary & Scott Wieler Norman & Kathy Younker Laurie Zeller Michael & Olga Zhdanov Kathie & Hugh Zumbro
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Thank You FRIEND $1,000 to $1,499 Anonymous Carolyn Abravanel Christine A. Allred Drs. Crystal & Dustin Armstrong Curtis Atkisson, Jr. Mr. Dennis D. Austin & Dr. Ann Berghout-Austin Robert Baker Diane Banks & Dr. Mark Bromberg Leslie Bender C. Kim & Jane Blair Barbara Burnett Mr. & Mrs. William D. Callister, Jr. Dana Carroll & Jeannine Marlowe Po & Beatrice Chang Michael & Beth Chardack William J. Coles & Dr. Joan L. Coles Gloria Comiskey Natalie Cope & Aaron Ashton Dr. & Mrs. David Coppin Denise Corr Dorothy B. Cromer Wrona Dubois Alice Edvalson Eric & Shellie Eide Naomi K. Feigal Carolyn & Tom Fey Margo Franta Ernst Friedrich, M.D. & Marianne Friedrich, Phd. David & Ann George Robert & Mary Gilchrist Ralph & Rose Gochnour
Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Graham Dr. Marzia Pasquali & Ms. Dr. & Mrs. David Guidry Nicola Longo Douglas & Connie Hayes Linda S. Pembroke John Edward Henderson Rori & Nancy Piggott Connie C. Holbrook Dr. Barbara S. Reid Scott Huntsman Gina Rieke Judith Warner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rollo Todd & Tatiana James James Schnitz Eldon Jenkins & Amy Calara Darrell Schrick Jocelyn Johnson Frances & Ron Schwarz Chester & Marilyn Johnson Sharon Seiner Paulette Katzenbach Jill & Richard Sheinberg Umur Kavlakoglu Annabelle & Dennis Shrieve Thomas H. Klassen & Carolyn Sandra Sigman Talboys-Klassen Barbara Slaymaker Robert & Karla Knox Dorotha Smart Steven Labrum & Jenny Mercedes Smith Wilder Linda & Michael Tim & Angela Laros Sossenheimer Greg Larson Diana Major Spencer Sheryl Laukat Hope Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn L. Larry R. & Sheila F. Stevens Lefkowitz Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Stevens Allan & Kay Lipman Douglas & Susan Terry Julie & John Lund Zibby & Jim Tozer Peter Margulies & Louise Craig & Christy Wagstaff Vickerman M. Walker & Sue Wallace Edward & Grace McDonough Gerard & Sheila Walsh Clifton & Terri McIntosh Margaret & Gary Wirth Lex Hemphill & Nancy Melich Marsha & Richard Workman Hal & JeNeal Miller Caroline & Thomas Wright Mary Muir John & Jean Yablonski Dan & Janet Myers Michael & Olga Zhdanov Oren & Liz Nelson Timothy F. Buehner Foundation Richard O’Brien Mary Jane O’Connor Donations received as of February 28, 2018 * In-kind donation ** In-kind and cash donation
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Thank You FRIEND $150 to $999 Anonymous (14) John C. Abercrombie Maggie & Nadim Abuhaidar Robyn Airmet Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Alex Dr. & Mrs. Irwin Altman David & Liz Anderson Diane Anderson Marco & Christine Andrei Ronald I. Apfelbaum, MD & Kathleen A. Murray, MD Mr. & Mrs. Robert Archuleta Mr. & Mrs. William P. Armstrong Richard & Nancy Arnoldy Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Asper, Jr. J. Randolph Ayre Kathleen Badalean Melissa Ballard Tom & Carolee Baron Robert Barrett Scott Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Barusch David & Rebecca Bateman Mary Ann Bauman Leroy & Barbara Bearnson Kathie Beckman Charles & Mary Behrens Michael Behring & Debra Marin Barbara Belnap Francine R. Bennion Victoria Bennion Reed & Jeanne Benson James Benton C. Verl & Shirley M. Benzley Diane Bernhardt James Bevan Earle & Linda Bevins Sue Bhanos Patter & Thomas Birsic Nina Boguslavsky Thomas Bowen & Martha Brace Carol Ann Brown Susan Brown Barbara Brunker Matthew Bryan & Jason Taylor Marjorie Budd Susan Burdett John Burger
Marianne Burgoyne Janice Burk John & Kathryn Burnham Mary Carlson Thomas & Beth Arnett Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Carter, Jr. Leon & Gisela Chodos Mr. & Mrs. Don M. Christensen Clark & Gwen Christian Orson C. & Dianne Clay John & Patricia Clay Patti Clements Richard & Julia Codell Dr. & Mrs. Hal S. Cole Lori Collett Maxine Condor Alene Cook Hillary Coon & Jim Yehle Sandra Covey Julie Crittenden Patricia Curtis Cindy & Christopher Cutler Rachel Daines David & Donna Dalton Mr. & Mrs. Darwin Datwyler Mark Davidson Elisabeth Dean Drs. Pilar & Christopher Dechet Robert & Gaye DeLange George & Mona Delavan Derna DeMaggio Carleton Detar & Laurel Casjens Gretchen Dietrich Dr. Kent C. DiFiore & Dr. Martha R. Humphrey Mary Dillon Josephine Divver Chantal Dolan Suzanne & Paul Driggs James & Janet Duane Household Judith A. Eagan Barbara & Melvin Echols James Eckstein John Eckstein Frederick Edelstein & Toni Footer Philip & Deborah Edelstein Frank M. Edmunds Kara Edwards Terry & Dorrie Emmons
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Ericson Robert P. & Mary Evans Laura Lee Falk David Fedor Joree Felker Dr. & Mrs. Perry Fine Robert & Elisha Finney Bettina Foody Felecia & George Ford Pat & Nancy Forester Dr. Elizabeth L. Frank Wayne & Aileen Freckleton John Frederick Carolyn C. Fredin Roslyn Gallagher Bryson & Jan Garbett Marie & Christian Gardner Quinn & Julie Gardner Dave Garside Katharina Gerstenberger Catherine Gerwels Raymond & Harriett Gesteland Nancy & Mark Gilbert Susan Glasmann & Richard Dudley Lawrence & Suzanne Goldsmith Joe & Panna Goott Melvin & Diane Gourdin Dr. & Mrs. William R. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Green Kay Greene Richard Greene Anabel & john Greenlee Paul & Janet Griffin Ray & Howard Grossman Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Gurney, Jr. John Gurr Stephen Guttenberg Maxine Haggerty James Hall Wayne Halverson Gabriele Hammond Marvin Hammond Harlan & Julia Hammond Karen E. Hannahs Scott W. Hansen Robert & Marcia Harris Virginia Harria Alene Harrison Jonathan Hart Doug Hattery
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Thank You Connie Hayden Dr. Alan B. Hayes Frank Heath Susan Hendry Craig & Tiffany Hess Mr. John P. Hill, Esq. Brian Hin Patrice & Lane Hirning Lewis E. Hitchner Lee & Audrey Hollaar Donald & Judy Horwitz Bob & Ursula Hoshaw Ronald Houston Robert & Virginia Huber Preston G. Hughes Foundation Virginia A. Hughes Randy & Nikki Huizenga Zachary Hulsey Jesse N. Hunsaker, M.D. Charles Hunter Albert Imesch Gordon Irving Dr. Richard & Helene Jaffe Dr. Brent James Matthew & Paige Janzen James & Jeanne Jardine Dr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Jensen Elane Jeppesen Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Drs. Owen & Joyce Johnson Muriel Johnson Nick Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Ramon E. Johnson Rodney Johnson Dr. Sarah & Dr. Jason Johnson Kimberli Jones Richard Kanner Catherine Kanter Raymond Karcher John S. Karls Dr. Siegfried & Ellen Karsten James & Lucille Kastanis Ronald Kastner Sylvia Katzman Chelsea & Jacob Kauffman Renate & Christopher Kesler Marvin & Lois Kimball Liz King Pat Koch Julie Korenberg, Ph.D, M.D. & Stefan Pulst, M.D. Peg Kramer Erin Krentz
Tyler Kruzich KSL Television Henry O. Whiteside Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Lake David & Sandra Lamb Gary Lambert Bruce & Margaret Landesman Maggie Laun Jill Lawrence Claudia Laycock Nelean Meadows & Dennis Layne Mary Leavitt Anne Lee & Claude Halter Glen M. & Karen W. Leonard Swantje Levin Marc Levy Margaret B. Lewis Marvin & Sharon Lewis Katherine P. Liddle Henry & Marilyn Lieberman Karl & Susan Lind Bill & Sally Lindsay Gary & Sandra K. Lindstrom Ronald W. Tharp & Kate F. Little Lee & Melissa Livengood Herbert & Helga Lloyd Karen Lobrot Uri Loewenstein & Elizabeth Tashjian Marilyn Lott Loveland Living Planet Aquarium Philip Lowe John Lucas Jeff & Kim Luke Brent Lutz Ralph & Sylvia S. Mabey Mira Blue & Mark Machlis Yuki Macqueen Karen Malechek Dr. & Mrs. Ned L. Mangelson Mike & Gerri Margetts John D. Marks Susan R. Marquardt Robin & Nassir Marrouche Alexander Martin Linda & John Mason Miriam Mason Penelope Mathews & David Horner Susan Maughan Dianne May
Neylan McBaine Beverly J. McCurdie Ralph & Peggy McElvain Frank & Maxine McIntyre Jerilyn McIntyre & David Smith Amanda McKell Dan McKnight & Deanna Donaldson Heather McMaster Jack & Patsy McNamara Philina Saltas Vanene Mcshane Sanford Meek Edward G. “Skip” & Patricia Mencimer Ron & Tamara Meyers Dan P. Miller Richard & Jean Miller Robert L. Miller Richard & Anita Miner Robert & Dianne Miner Dr. Michaela S. Mohr Dave Moore & Mary Mallon Bill & Jane Moore Ted Moore & Julie HartleyMoore Patricia & James Morgan Dr. Susan Morgan Glenn Mosby David Mugleston John Mulderig Matt Mullin & Maren Bargreen Faye & Harlan Muntz National Financial Services, LLC Nebeker Family Foundation Renate B. Nebeker Sara Lee Neill James & Marianne Nelson John C. & Mary Ann Nelson Phillip & Alice Newberry E. Dilworth & Peggy S. Newman Dr. & Mrs. John H. Newton Merrill & Josephine Oaks Patti O’Keefe Whitney Olch Maura & Serge Olszanskyj Lee K. Osborne John Ott Ralph & Kay Packard Adrian S. Palmer Joseph† & Dorothy Ann Palmer Jeffrey Paris
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Thank You Mrs. Paula S. Paterson Mr. & Mrs. James Patterson Dr. Anne M. Pendo & Duncan Edwards Barbara Perry Greg & Lisa Graham Joan C. Peterson Kelvin Peterson & Liqin Qiu Michelle Peterson & Richard Scott Jane Pigott Keith & Linda Poelman Lisa & Jim Stringfellow David Porter Laszlo & Sandra Preysz Matthew & Maria Proser Stephen & Susan Kohler Glen & Dorothy Purdie Thomas Quam Brent Rammell Jack Rampton Robert & Nancy Raybould Raymond James & Associates Delia & Craig Reece Sydney Dunn & Harry Reed† Ronald Rencher Mary Rethwisch Thom D. Roberts & Sandra Peuler Gary Rodgers Mike & Kathy Rodman John Rohrbaugh Abigail Rose Dr. John W. Rose & Ms. Carolyn A. Pedone Don & Noreen Rouillard Jerry & Linda Rowley Carolyn & Charles Rozwat Gail T. Rushing Carole Rusho Gregory Ryan Ellen Rye Mr. Robert Sacks Charles Saltzman Juergen & Cheryl Sass Joan Scanlon Dr. S. Brent & Janet Scharman Grant Schettler Sandefur Schmidt Kent & LaRae Scott Harry & Becky Senekjian Julie & Bradley Senet 52
Brent Sessions John & Shelley Turner Scott & Luke Sherner Sarah & Alexander Uhle Orion & Marge Sherwood Nancy Umemura M. Tom & Junko Shimizu Ken Uy John Shott Shirley Van Wagenen Glenda & Robert† Shrader Mark Vernon Marolyn Siddoway Gary Veverka Sandra Sigman Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Vickery, Jr. Deborah Simmons David & Barbara Viskochil Margaret Simmons William & Donna R. Vogel Allen & Karen Sims William & Heidi Vriens Phyllis Sims† Patrick Wade & Jeffrey Chaney Val & Barbara† Singleton Jodi & Thomas Wagner Lynn Skene Dianne & Peter Yogman Thomas Slaymaker Howard & Barbara Wallack Stuart & Suzanne Slingerland Bonnie Walsh Martin & Tani Smihula Dennis & Sherry Walsh Diane Smith Perry & Margie Walters Julia Smith Farrell & Deanna Wankier Scott & Karen Smith Dr. James C. Warenski Paul & Carol Sonntag Jim Warenski Neal & Carol Sorensen Bruce & Leigh Washburn Susan Chausow Southam Glen Watkins Wayne Sowers Mr. & Mrs. Frank Weinstock Robert & Arita R. Sparks Lauri Welch Kenneth A. & Claudia M. Frederik Weller Sperling Charles & Ellen Wells Audrey L. Stauffer Jeremy & Hila Wenokur Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Stein Karen Whipple Suzanne Stensaas Dr. H. James & Janet Williams Stanley O. Stensrud McKay & Jean Willis Jeffrey Stone Claudia Wilson Bente Strong Mary & Charles Wintzer Annie & Cory Strupp David & Anne Wirthlin Briant Summerhays Michael Wolfe Charles Swallow James & Carolyn Woodward Jeannette Swent Dylan Wright Martin & Irene Tannenbaum Frank & Betty Yanowitz Mrs. Gaylia Tanner Beth Young & David Waid Max Tanner Tolford Young Sally Tauber Roberta Zalkind Hillary Taylor Patrick Zimmerman Dr. & Mrs. Kim Y. Taylor Birgit Zotta Ranae Taylor Isabella Tcaciuc Irene & Robert Roemer John Thueson Gail Tomlinson Neil Townsend & Ian Wolf Alex Trueseff Robb Trujillo William & Patricia Tueting Donations received as of February 28, 2018 UTAH OPERA 2017–18 SEASON
Thank You CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
Annual Fund Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is grateful to the corporations, foundations, & public institutions that sustain our mission and to those who have pledged multi-year gifts (recognized in bold). For more information, please call 801-869-9013. ENCORE $100,000 & ABOVE AHE/CI Trust The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation Dominion Energy George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation The Florence J. Gillmor Foundation Emma Eccles Jones Foundation Janet Q. Lawson Foundation
The Tony & Renee Marlon Charitable Foundation Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation O.C. Tanner Perkins-Prothro Foundation John & Marcia Price Foundation Salt Lake County Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks
Shiebler Family Foundation Sorenson Legacy Foundation State of Utah Summit County Restaurant Tax / RAP Tax Utah Division of Arts & Museums / National Endowment for the Arts Utah State Legislature / Utah State Board of Education Zions Bank
BRAVO $50,000 to $99,999 Carol Franc Buck Foundation Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation Huntsman Foundation
Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation Marriner S. Eccles Foundation
FJ Management, Inc. Grand & Little America Hotels* Utah Symphony Guild
OVERTURE $25,000 to $49,999 Arnold Machinery B.M.W. of Murray | B.M.W. of Pleasant Grove The Brent & Bonnie Jean Beesley Foundation Chevron Corporation C. Comstock Clayton Foundation Deer Valley Resort**
Moreton Family Foundation Montage Deer Valley** Charles Maxfield & Gloria F. Parrish Foundation S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney Foundation Simmons Family Foundation Harris H. & Amanda P. Simmons Foundation
Stein Eriksen Lodge** The Sam & Diane Stewart Family Foundation Summit Sotheby’s Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation Vivint.SmartHome Wells Fargo Foundation
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Thank You CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
MAESTRO $10,000 to $24,999 Adobe Bambara* Bank of Utah B.W. Bastian Foundation Berenice J. Bradshaw Trust R. Harold Burton Foundation Caffé Molise* Marie Eccles Caine Foundation – Russell Family CenturyLink Community Foundation of the Lowcountry
The Katherine W. Dumke & Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr. Foundation Every Blooming Thing* Gastronomy* Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation Hyatt Centric Park City** McCarthey Family Foundation Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
National Endowment for the Arts Ogden Opera Guild Park City Chamber Bureau Promontory Foundation Salt Lake City Arts Council The Swartz Foundation Union Pacific Foundation University of Utah Health Utah Office of Tourism Workers Compensation Fund
Flynn Family Foundation The Val. A. Green & Edith D. Green Foundation Holland & Hart** Huntsman International LLC J. Wong’s Thai & Chinese Bistro* Jones Waldo Park City Macy’s Martine*
Pro Helvetia, The Swiss Arts Council Raymond James & Associates Resorts West by Natural Retreats* St. Regis / Deer Crest Club** U.S. Bancorp Foundation Utah Autism Foundation Victory Ranch & Conservancy
Fanwood Foundation Graystone Consulting LOVE Communications Millcreek Coffee Roasters* George Q. Morris Foundation Nebeker Family Foundation Park City Community Foundation Peczuh Printing* Prime Steakhouse* Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation Rocky Mountain Power Foundation
Sinclair Oil Corporation Snell & Wilmer Snow, Christensen & Martineau Foundation Squatters Pub* Stay Park City Stoel Rives Swire Coca-Cola, USA* TraskBritt P.C. The George B. & Oma E. Wilcox & Gibbs M. & Catherine W. Smith Fdn. Zuvii*
PATRON $5,000 to $9,999 Art Works for Kids! Bessemer Trust The Capital Group Deluxe Corporation Foundation Discover Financial Services The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Patricia Dougall Eager Trust Spencer F. & Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation
FRIEND $2,500 to $4,999 Bertin Family Foundation Rodney H. & Carolyn Hansen Brady Charitable Foundation Boeing Employees Community Fund Robert S. Carter Foundation Castle Foundation Cope & Cope Investments, LLC D’Addario Foundation Diamond Rental* Henry W. & Leslie M. Eskuche Charitable Foundation * In-kind donation ** In-kind and cash donation 54
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Thank You DONORS TO UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA ENDOWMENT Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is grateful to those donors who have made commitments to our Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund is a vital resource that helps the longterm well-being and stability of USUO and, through its annual earnings, supports our Annual Fund. For further information, please contact 801-869-9028. Gael Benson Edward Ashwood & Candice Johnson Estate of Alexander Bodi The Elizabeth Brown Dee Fund for Music in the Schools Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation
Thomas & Candace Dee Hearst Foundation Roger & Susan Horn The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish & Frederick Quinn Edward & Barbara Moreton Estate of Pauline C. Pace Perkins-Prothro Foundation
Kenneth† & Jerrie Randall The Evelyn Rosenblatt Young Artist Award Norman C. Tanner & Barbara L. Tanner Trust O.C. Tanner M. Walker & Sue Wallace
GIFTS MADE IN HONOR OF Dr. J. R. Baringer & Dr. Jeannette J. Townsend Mrs. Winifred Bradley Neill & Linda Brownstein
Herond & Gaylen Hoyt Pamela Robinson-Harris & Jeff Harris Classical Movements Abigail Rethwisch Paulson
Joanne & Bill Shiebler The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish Constance & Marcus Theodore
GIFTS MADE IN MEMORY OF Anita Alcabes Jay T. Ball Dr. Ray Beckham Janet Bennett Winifred Bradley Robert H. Burgoyne, M.D. Jeffrey L. Chaney Kathie Dalton Charles Dean Dean E. Eggertsen Loraine L. Felton Harry E. Franta Rosalie Frost Ursula Gleason Lowell P. Hicks Joanne Johnson
Muriel Lindquist Panos Johnson Joseph S. Knowlton Valice M. Laramee Sharon R. Lewis Sonja Margulies Frank & Maxine McIntyre Bill Peters Glade & Mardean Peterson John A. Reinertsen Alvin Richer Kathryn Romney Ann O’Neill Shigeoka, M.D. Frank & Shirley Russell Bert Schaap Aurelia H. Schettler Catherine Schettler
Ben Schippen Phyllis Sims J. Ryan Selberg Rebecca “Becky” Sharp Sorensen Ann O’Neill Shigeoka, M.D. Claudia Silver-Huff Hope B. Stevens Patrick L. Wade Robert Van Wagenen Nadine Ward Marie Watkins Ardean Watts John W. Williams Lawrence Young Dr. I. Zelitt Martin Zwick
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Legacy Giving Leave a lasting legacy of excellent music. When you make a gift through your estate, either now or at the end of your life, you provide invaluable support to Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. Your financial advisor or estate planning attorney can help you build a gift that can meet goals for you or your heirs, and provide USUO with the resources that create incredible music. Help USUO preserve our future of performing favorite symphonic and operatic works and new works for years to come.
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“You are the music while the music lasts.” ~T.S. Eliot Utah Symphony | Utah Opera offers sincere thanks to our patrons who have included USUO in their financial and estate planning. Please contact Leslie Peterson at lpeterson@usuo.org or 801-869-9012 for more information, or visit our website at usuo.giftplans.org. CRESCENDO SOCIETY OF UTAH OPERA Anonymous Edward Ashwood & Candice Johnson 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 Joseph & Pat Gartman Paul (Hap) & Ann† Green John & Jean Henkels Clark D. Jones Turid V. Lipman Herbert C. & Wilma Livsey Constance Lundberg Richard W. & Frances P. Muir
Marilyn H. Neilson Carol & Ted Newlin Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols Mr.† & Mrs. Alvin Richer Jeffrey W. Shields G.B. & B.F. Stringfellow Norman† & Barbara Tanner Dr. Ralph & Judith Vander Heide Edward J. & Marelynn Zipser
TANNER SOCIETY OF UTAH SYMPHONY Beethoven Circle gifts valued at more than $100,000 Anonymous (3) Doyle Arnold & Anne Glarner Dr. J. Richard Baringer Haven J. Barlow Shelly Coburn Captain Raymond & Diana Compton Anne C. Ewers Flemming & Lana Jensen
James Read Lether Daniel & Noemi P. Mattis Anthony & Carol W. Middleton, Jr., M.D. Robert & Dianne Miner Glenn Prestwich & Barbara Bentley Kenneth A.† & Jeraldine S. Randall
Mr.† & Mrs. Alvin Richer Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols Sharon & David† Richards Harris H. & Amanda P. Simmons E. Jeffery & Joyce Smith G.B. & B.F. Stringfellow Norman† & Barbara Tanner Mr. & Mrs. M. Walker Wallace
Herbert C. & Wilma Livsey Dianne May Dr. & Mrs. Louis A Moench Jerry & Marcia McClain Jim & Andrea Naccarato Stephen H. & Mary Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Scott Parker Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Pazzi Richard Q. Perry Chase† & Grethe Peterson Glenn H. & Karen F. Peterson Thomas A. & Sally† Quinn
Dan & June Ragan Mr. Grant Schettler Glenda & Robert† Shrader Mr. Robert C. Steiner & Dr. Jacquelyn Erbin† JoLynda Stillman Edwin† & Joann Svikhart Frederic & Marilyn Wagner Jack R. & Mary Lois† Wheatley Edward J. & Marelynn Zipser
Mahler Circle Anonymous (3) Eva-Maria Adolphi Edward Ashwood & Candice Johnson Dr. Robert H. † & Marianne Harding Burgoyne Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Coombs Paul (Hap) & Ann† Green Robert & Carolee Harmon Richard G. & Shauna† Horne Ms. Marilyn Lindsay Turid V. Lipman
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Administration ADMINISTRATION Paul Meecham
SYMPHONY ARTISTIC Thierry Fischer
Chad Call
President & CEO
Symphony Music Director
David Green
Anthony Tolokan
Mike Call
Senior Vice President & COO
Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning
Julie McBeth Executive Assistant to the CEO
Conner Gray Covington
Ali Snow
Assistant Conductor
Executive Assistant to the COO & Office Manager
Symphony Chorus Director
0PERA ARTISTIC Christopher McBeth Opera Artistic Director
Michaella Calzaretta Opera Chorus Master
Carol Anderson Principal Coach
Michelle Peterson Opera Company Manager
Mandi Titcomb Opera Production Coordinator
Barlow Bradford Walt Zeschin Director of Orchestra Personnel
Andrew Williams Orchestra Personnel Manager
SYMPHONY OPERATIONS Jeff Counts Vice President of Operations & General Manager
Cassandra Dozet Melissa Robison
Technical Director
Chip Dance
Kelly Nickle
Production & Stage Manager
Properties Master
Jeff Herbig
Keith Ladanye
Properties Manager & Assistant Stage Manager
Erin Lunsford
Carpenter
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Dusty Terrell
DEVELOPMENT Leslie Peterson
COSTUMES Verona Green
PATRON SERVICES Nina Starling Director of Patron Engagement
Faith Myers Sales Manager
Andrew J. Wilson Patron Services Manager
Ellesse Hargreaves
Program Publication & Front of House Director
Scenic Charge Artist
Digital Content Producer
Robb Trujillo
Senior Technical Director
Travis Stevens
Kathleen Sykes
Executive Assistant to the Music Director & Symphony Chorus Manager
Director of Operations
Production Carpenter
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Lance Jensen
OPERA TECHNICAL Jared Porter Kyle Coyer
Marketing Manager - Audience Development
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Hillary Hahn
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Joan Shiflett
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Manager of Corporate Partnerships
Jared Mollenkopf
Wardrobe Supervisor
Lisa Poppleton
Patron Information Systems Manager
Milivoj Poletan
Grants Manager
Bobbie Williams
Tailor
Chelsea Kauffman
Accounts Payable Accountant
Tiffany Lent
Annual Fund Coordinator
Cutter/Draper
Steven Finkelstein
Donna Thomas
Development Coordinator
Milliner & Crafts Artisan
Chris Chadwick Yoojean Song Connie Warner
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jon Miles
Stitchers
Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations
Shelley Carpenter Bailey Rapier Katie Satot
Director of Communications & Digital Media
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EDUCATION Paula Fowler Director of Education & Community Outreach
Beverly Hawkins Symphony Education Manager
Kyleene Johnson Symphony Education Assistant
Paul Hill Opera Education Assistant We would also like to recognize our interns and temporary and contracted staff for their work and dedication to the success of utah symphony | utah opera.
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2018 / DEER VALLEY® MUSIC FESTIVAL
Community Events The USUO Education Department offers events that provide access for our community members to professional musicians and music-making.
FAMILY INSTRUMENT PETTING ZOO Friday, July 6 (6–7 pm) • • • •
Preceding DISNEY IN CONCERT: A SILLY SYMPHONY CELEBRATION Instruments provided by Summerhays Music Staffed by volunteers from the Utah Symphony Youth Guild Available to all ticket holders
PLAZAFEST • June 30: Utah Conservatory Patriotic Kids Camp will sing patriotic tunes on the plaza before the Patriotic Celebration concert. • Wednesdays: Young instrumentalists offer pre-performance music at select St. Mary’s Church concerts. • August 3: The Park City Rockers @ Utah Conservatory will perform on the plaza preceding The ‘70s vs The ‘80s concert.
MUSIC IN THE LIBRARY Thursdays, June 28 and August 2 (2-3 pm) USUO Education staff will join afternoon family hours at the Park City Library with a variety of music games for children, in support of the library’s summer reading theme “Libraries Rock!”
GUEST ARTIST EVENTS Check the festival website for updated information.
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