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AN OPERA BY
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Thomas Mallon
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June 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, & 26 | The Cowles Center Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.
CAST T I M OT H Y L AUG H LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andres
Acosta•
H AWKINS FULLER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hadleigh M ARY JO H NS O N.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Adriana Zabala•
M I SS LIG H T FO OT .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hye
Jung Lee
ESTONIAN FRANK, INTERROGATOR, SENATOR MCCARTHY.. . . . . . . . . . . Andrew
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LUCY .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jasmine
Habersham
TO MMY MCINT Y RE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney S E NATO R POT T ER, G EN ERAL ARL IE , BA RTE N D E R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Nicholas Davis**
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Griffin
CREATIVE TEAM CO ND UCTO R, Ruth and John Huss Chair.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniela
Candillari
STAG E D IRECTO R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter
Rothstein
S C EN IC A N D PRO PERT IES D ES IG N.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Peyton
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ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME
The running time is 2 hours and 19 minutes, with one intermission occurring approximately 56 minutes into the opera.
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WARNING
Fellow Travelers contains mature content, sexual situations, simulated nudity, and simulated cigarette smoking.
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SYNOPSIS
SETTING
Scene 9
September 1953 to May 1957, in Washington, D.C. Eisenhower is president. Senator Joseph McCarthy is stoking fears that the U.S. federal government is full of Communists, Soviet spies, and homosexuals.
McCarthy’s Office. Senator Potter warns McCarthy that the “Adams Chronology,” which details how Roy Cohn and McCarthy pressured the Army to give Cohn’s friend David Schine special treatment, will be McCarthy’s downfall unless he gives up Cohn.
Scene 1 Park in Dupont Circle. A fledgling reporter, Timothy Laughlin, sits on a bench reviewing his notes from McCarthy’s wedding when he is approached by State Department employee Hawkins Fuller.
Scene 2 Senator Charles Potter’s Office. Timothy is hired as a speechwriter for Senator Charles Potter. Timothy meets Tommy McIntyre, who gives him unsolicited advice about Washington politics.
Scene 3 Hawkins’s Office. Timothy stops by Hawkins’s office to drop off a thank-you gift. He meets Hawkins’s assistant and best friend Mary, and his secretary Miss Lightfoot, who mocks Timothy after he leaves.
Scene 4 Timothy’s Apartment. Timothy is at home cooking soup and writing his sister a letter when Hawkins unexpectedly stops by to tell him about the delights of Bermuda, among other things.
Scene 5 St. Peter’s Church. In the afterglow of last night’s encounter with Hawkins, Timothy is torn between his deep Catholicism and his blossoming passion.
Scene 6 The Hotel Washington. At a Christmas party, Timothy is approached by an Army general about enlisting; Mary warns Hawkins about his reckless behavior with Timothy; McIntyre tells Potter about McCarthy’s latest political troubles; Miss Lightfoot overhears an intimate exchange between Hawkins and Timothy.
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Interrogation Room M304. An interrogator puts Hawkins through a series of humiliating tests in an attempt to determine whether or not he is a homosexual.
Scene 8 Timothy’s Apartment. Timothy and Hawkins discuss the interrogation, McCarthy, and Hawkins’s illicit amusements in New York City. INTERMISSION
Scene 10 Mary’s Kitchen/Timothy’s Apartment. Mary invites Timothy over to warn him of Hawkins’s fickle nature. She tells Timothy she is pregnant from a one-night stand. In Timothy’s apartment, Hawkins rejoices that he’s been cleared of allegations of homosexuality. Timothy is shocked by how Hawkins wants to celebrate.
Scene 11 Roof of the Old Post Office. Timothy, in agony over his fraught relationship, tells Hawkins he’s decided to enlist in the Army.
Scene 12 Hawkins’s Office. Mary tells Hawkins she is quitting, as she can no longer work in an atmosphere of panic and persecution.
Scene 13 Timothy in France/Hawkins in Chevy Chase/ Mary in New Orleans. Three years pass. Timothy writes letters to Hawkins and Mary from France, where he is stationed. Hawkins is now married to a woman named Lucy, with a house in the suburbs, but would clearly like to rekindle his relationship with Timothy upon his return.
Scene 14 Brick House. In a house in D.C. that Hawkins has rented for his afternoon flings with Timothy, Hawkins expresses that he cannot be everything Timothy wants. Hawkins resolves to end the affair himself.
Scene 15 Mary’s Kitchen/Brick House/Room M304. Mary is packing when Hawkins stops by, distraught. Hawkins confesses that in order to push Timothy away, he has given Timothy’s name to those investigating alleged homosexuals. He asks Mary to tell Timothy about this betrayal in hopes it will make Timothy hate him.
Scene 16 Park in Dupont Circle. His dreams dashed, Timothy decides to leave Washington, D.C., and Hawkins Fuller for good. Both heartbroken, they say goodbye.
GREGORY SPEARS
GREG PIERCE
THOMAS MALLON
C O M P O S E R
L I B R E T T I S T
A U T H O R
Gregory Spears is a New York-based composer whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (New York Times), “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker), and “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory” (The Boston Globe). In recent seasons he has been commissioned by The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Cincinnati Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seraphic Fire, The Crossing choir, Concert Artists Guild, Vocal Arts DC, New York Polyphony, The New York International Piano Competition, and the JACK Quartet. Spears' first opera, Paul’s Case, described as a “masterpiece” and a “gem” (New York Observer) was premiered by Urban Arias in 2013. It was restaged at the Prototype Festival in New York and presented in a new production by Pittsburgh Opera in 2014.
Greg Pierce grew up in Shelburne, Vermont. His play Slowgirl was the inaugural play of Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater (LCT3). His play Her Requiem, a Lincoln Center Theater commission, was also produced by LCT3. His play Cardinal was commissioned and produced by Second Stage Theater. The Landing, a musical written with composer John Kander, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in NYC. His second musical with Kander, Kid Victory, was co-produced by Signature Theatre in Virginia and the Vineyard Theatre. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, co-written with director Stephen Earnhart, based on the novel by Haruki Murakami, premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, and went on to play the Singapore Arts Festival. The Quarry, with music by Greg's brother Randal Pierce was commissioned and produced by Vermont Stage Company.
Thomas Mallon’s ten books of fiction include Henry and Clara, Fellow Travelers, Watergate (a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award) and the forthcoming Landfall. He has also written volumes of nonfiction about plagiarism (Stolen Words), diaries (A Book of One’s Own), letters (Yours Ever) and the Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine’s Garage), as well as two books of essays (Rockets and Rodeos and In Fact). He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Honors include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the National Book Critics Circle citation for reviewing, and the Vursell prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for distinguished prose style. He has been literary editor of Gentlemen’s Quarterly and deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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DIRECTOR'S NOTES
In 1953, President Eisenhower signed an Executive Order declaring that homosexual women and men were to be labeled “sexual deviants” and were banned from working in the U.S. government. It became known as the Lavender Scare. More than 5,000 men and woman working at home and abroad lost their jobs with the U.S. Government and were publicly outed. As a result, they were ostracized not only from their employers, but also their families and their government. Many took their own lives; although one could argue their lives had been taken from them. My good friend and brilliant stage director Kevin Newbury instigated the idea for adapting Thomas Mallon’s novel Fellow Travelers into an opera. It has all the makings of a great opera—at the center is a romantic love story set amidst social upheaval and political corruption. It is beautifully intimate and painfully epic. Gregory Pierce and Gregory Spears have created an extraordinary work of music-theater, maximizing what opera can do that a drama without music simply cannot. Music steps in where words fail. The characters who inhabit Fellow Travelers are unable to speak the truth, some out of real ignorance and others out of devastating fear. Theirs is “a love that dare not speak its name,” a quote from a poem by Lord Alfred Douglas, published in 1894 and referenced in Oscar Wilde’s gross indecency trial. Like many of the victims of the Lavender Scare,
the great playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was found guilty of “sexual deviance,” was ostracized by his government, and died in impoverished exile. As a gay man living in the 21st century, I have a profound gratitude for the homosexual people who came before me. Too many of them were forced to live their lives in the shadows, where too many of their stories have remained. It is an honor to shed light on the victims and the heroes of the Lavender Scare—may we do their story justice. PETER ROTHSTEIN STAGE DIRECTOR
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HADLEIGH ADAMS AS HAWKINS FULLER
ORCHESTRA
THE MINNESOTA OPERA ORCHESTRA VIOLIN I Allison Ostrander* Concertmaster Cynthia and Lawrence Lee Chair Julia Persitz David Mickens
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HA: It's always interesting talking about the character you play in a show. As an actor you spend so much time thinking about the character, their motivations, conscious and subconscious, their flaws, and how they got that way. I preface my answer, because in Fellow Travelers my character Hawkins does a pretty terrible thing to someone—who he says—he loves. Hawkins is very successful. He's gregarious, handsome, good at his job, and often fawned over. He's attracted to men, but views sexual encounters with random men as the totality of the gay experience for him. He doesn't see any path forward to having a life with a man; living together, building a home, and nor does he seem to want one. Now of course, this is a pretty common viewpoint for a lot of closeted men in the 1950s, and to an extent, it's easy to understand why. The way the LGBT community in the 1950s was treated was abhorrent, and for a powerful man who would otherwise have the world at his feet, the thought of falling to the very bottom of the social hierarchy would surely have been a petrifying thought. It's easy with hindsight to castigate Hawkins for his weaknesses, but from his perspective, he's just doing everything he can to keep his head above water.
What are three of your character’s most prominent qualities? HA: Confident. At the beginning of Fellow Travelers, this guy sits down on a park bench and starts talking to
a cute guy he's never met before, and in under five minutes he's insinuating that he should be screwing instead of talking. I mean, that's pretty ballsy. That combined with the fact that because he knows he “passes” for straight, he doesn't have any fear of being found out, and can exude this gregarious sexuality with men or women at the flick of the switch. Self-interested. His primary thought is for himself and what he wants. There's not much he's had to fight for. He's started his life as an educated, handsome, white guy. That's kind of the socio-economic jackpot in the 1950s, isn't it? But also, is it a bad thing to be self-interested? No, not necessarily, but I feel with Hawkins it comes from a place of privilege. There's nothing much in the world that isn't available to him, and he wants to experience everything he can. At one point he says to his lover “It's a great big world, let's let it burn us". To want to be burned, means you have the resources to deal with it after the fact. Damaged. Aren't we all though, right?! I feel that somewhere on his journey, when he was younger, Hawkins was really hurt by a guy he really had feelings for. When you get hurt like that, you tighten your heart into a knot so you don't have to hurt. As he's matured into his 30s, he's kept that viewpoint. It's kept him emotionally safe from pain, and partly what causes him to be so closed off from the man he loves and the possibility of their very own home.
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BASS John Michael Smith Ken and Peggy Bonneville Chair
FLUTE Michele Frisch
OBOE Michael Dayton
CLARINET / BASS CLARINET Karrin Meffert-Nelson
TROMBONE John Tranter Richard Gaynor
PIANO Jessica Hall
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Minnesota Opera Debut Le nozze di Figaro, 2017
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Minnesota Opera Debut Fellow Travelers, 2018
Past
Dead Man Walking, Minnesota Opera
Le nozze di Figaro, Michigan Opera Theatre
Carmen, Indianapolis Symphony
Le Vin Herbé, Chicago Opera Theater
Così fan tutte, Janiec Opera
La fanciulla del West, Santa Fe Opera
Future Florencia en el Amazonas, Pensacola Opera
Roméo et Juliette, Santa Fe Opera
Future Porgy and Bess, Seattle Opera La Rondine, Minnesota Opera Silent Night, Minnesota Opera The Fix, Minnesota Opera
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Young Caesar, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Carmen, The Atlanta Opera
Die Fledermaus, Cincinnati Opera
La Cenerentola, Opera Orlando
Future Tosca, San Francisco Opera A Little Night Music, Nederlandse Reisopera Bernstein’s Mass, Lincoln Center
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Le nozze di Figaro, Florida Grand Opera
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LUCY
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We Are Proud to Present, Guthrie Theatre
Out of Darkness: Two Remain, The Atlanta Opera
Ragtime, Asolo Repertory Theatre
Moby Dick, Utah Opera
Corduroy, Children’s Theatre Company
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BLKS, Steppenwolf Theatre
The Mikado, Kentucky Opera
Future Last Stop on Market Street, Children’s Theatre Company
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Così fan tutte, North Carolina Opera
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Angel’s Bone, PROTOTYPE Festival
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Future Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Colorado
Children under six are not permitted in the hall. Cameras and recording equipment are strictly prohibited in the theater. Please check these items with an usher. Food and beverages are available for purchase prior to the show and during intermission. Water and other beverages are allowed in the theater (hot beverages require lids), but food is strictly prohibited.
G. STERLING ZINSMEYER DEVELOPER AND CO-COMMISSIONER
G. Sterling Zinsmeyer conceived, commissioned, and developed Fellow Travelers as an opera. Mr. Zinsmeyer is a veteran of the independent arts community, most notably serving as Executive Producer on the awardwinning film Latter Days.
The phone number for emergencies is 612-206-3600. Please leave seat locations with the calling party.
FELLOW TRAVELERS 2017–18
Le nozze di Figaro, Minnesota Opera
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B O A R D , S TA F F, + V O L U N T E E R S
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STAFF
VOLUNTEERS
OF F ICE RS
ADMI N I ST RAT IO N
Julia Alvarez
Chair | Margaret Wurtele
President and General Director | Ryan Taylor Director of Board Relations | Theresa Murray Chief Financial Officer | Steve Matheson Chief of Human Resources | Jen Thill Staff Accountants | Christina Davini, Shannon Ratcliff Facility Manager | Steve Mittelholtz Systems Administrator | Tony Ngonekeo
Nina Archabal
AR T I ST IC
Renee Brown-Goodell
President and General Director | Ryan Taylor Vice Chair | H. Bernt von Ohlen Secretary | Nadege Souvenir Treasurer | John C. Junek
DIRECTORS
Mark Billy Debra Brooks Alexis Haley Brown Michelle Cadieux
Robert Lee
Patricia Beithon
Jeninne McGee
Sharon Bloodworth
Michael McNamara
Shari Boehnen
Leni Moore
Alberto Castillo
Kay Ness
Artistic Director | Dale Johnson Priti Gandhi | Chief Artistic Officer Designate Assistant Conductor | Jonathan Brandani Head of Music | Allen Perriello Company Manager | Roxanne Stouffer Artist Administration Director | Floyd Anderson
Jay Debertin
Jose Peris
E DU C AT IO N
Erin Farste
Terrance Dolan
Elizabeth Redleaf
Jane Fuller
Sara Donaldson
Connie Remele
Sidney W. Emery
Mary H. Schrock
Maureen Harms
Linda Roberts Singh
Mary IngebrandPohlad
David Smith
Chief Learning Officer | Jamie Andrews Teaching Artist | Pablo Siqueiros Project Opera Music Director | Matthew Abernathy Project Opera Accompanist | Kathy Kraulik Music Out Loud Teaching Artist | Sara Sawyer Community Organizer | Rebecca Lawrence
Philip Isaacson
DE V E LOPME NT
Merle Hanson
David Strauss
J Jackson
Virginia Stringer
Diane Jacobson
Greg Sullivan
John C. Junek
Norrie Thomas
Christl Larson
H. Bernt von Ohlen
Mary Lazarus
William White
Cynthia Y. Lee
Margaret Wurtele
Nadege Souvenir
Chief Development Officer | Carley M. Stuber Development Director | Mallory Roberts Institutional and Major Gifts Director | Diana Konopka Development Officer | Nickolas Sanches Associate Events Director | Anthony Diaz Development and Corporate Sponsorship Manager | Jeremie Bur Development Operations Coordinator | Jonathan Lundgren Development Coordinator | Charlotte Summers
MA R K ET ING /CO MMU NICAT IO NS
TEMP O L I A I SON
Chief Marketing Officer | Darby Lunceford Marketing Director | Katherine L. Castille Associate Marketing Director | Kristin Matejcek Marketing Manager | Amanda Rodriguez Associate Communications Director | Eric Broker Design Manager | Kristin Backman Communications Manager | Rocky Jones Patron Services Director | Greg Campbell Patron Services Manager | Kevin Beckey Associate Patron Services Manager | Karl Annable Patron Services Supervisor | Ian Mercer Patron Services Representatives | Ronnie Allen, Emma Carpenter, Kianna Carter, Carol Corich, Elisabeth Hawthorne, Mollie Laidly, David Merz, Elijah Saiger, Joshua Weinberg
Kara Eliason Dorsey
P R O DUCT IO N
Karen Bachman
Julia W. Dayton
John A. Blanchard, III
Mary W. Vaughan
Burton Cohen
HONO RA RY D I REC TO R S Dominick Argento
Liz Kochiras
Philip Brunelle
TEMPO BOARD OF F ICE RS Chair | Thomas Bakken
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Gerald Benson
Richard Allendorf
D IR ECTORS E M ER I T I
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Lynne Beck
Vice Chair | Kara Eliason Dorsey Secretary | Emily Engel Treasurer | Veronica Mason
M EMBERS Carrie Anderson
Sarah Fowler
Thomas Bakken
Mark Giga
Elizabeth Brenner
Alison Jarzyna
Laura Chaffee
Veronica Mason
Kamruz Darabi
Luke Olson
Kara Eliason Dorsey
Aimee Tritt
Katie Eiser
Julia Wilcox
Emily Engel
Danny Carroll Jerry Cassidy Judith Duncan David Earp Billy Fabec
Joan Gacki Diane Gerlach Ryan Gilmer Jessica Grams Tim Jones Robin Keck Bebe Keith Kathleen Kitchen Laura Kucera Mary Lach Angela LaCombe Jerry Lillquist Joyce Lillquist Melanie Locke Tom Logeland Suzan Lynnes Jasmine Magner Jackson Marketon Mary McDiarmid Sylvia Michels Barbara Moore Douglas Myhra Andrea Nicholson Candyce Osterkamp Heidi Pagano Pat Panshin
Chief Production Officer | Karen Quisenberry Assistant Production Director | Julia Gallagher Production Stage Manager | Kerry Masek Assistant Stage Managers | Lyndsey R. Harter, Mallory Lammers Technical Director | Josh Peklo Properties Master | Jenn Maatman Properties Assistant | Rachel Madden Lighting and Video Coordinator | Raymond W. Steveson Jr. Production Carpenter | JC Amel Scene Shop Foreman/Supervisor | Mark Maurer Master Carpenters | Nate Kulenkamp, Eric Veldey Show Carpenter | Max Gilbert Carpenter | Connor Belting Scenic Artist | Lynn Isaacson Costume Director | Corinna Bohren Assistant Costume Director | Beth Sanders Design Assistant and Wardrobe Supervisor | Molly O’Gara Tailor | Yancey Thrift Draper | Chris Bur First Hand | Rebecca Karstad Stitcher | Ann Friese Hair/Makeup Crew | Corrie Dubay
Sydney Phillips Ella Rasp Gabrielle Sacha Laura Schaubschlager Michele Schluender Kari Schutz Mickaylee Shaughnessy Mary Sheehy Janet Skidmore Wendi Sott Norm Tiedemann Stephanie Van D’Elden Barbara Willis
Minnesota Opera is a proud member of The Arts Partnership with the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Schubert Club.
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F E L LOW T R AV E L E R S D O N O R S
I T I S W I T H D E E P A P P R E C I AT I O N that Minnesota Opera recognizes individual donors who have made gifts to support this staging of Fellow Travelers. Thank you for making this exceptional art come to life.
$50,000+ Anonymous Wayne Zink and Christopher Schout
$15,000–$49,999 Susan S. Boren Eric and Celita Levinson
$10,000–$14,999 Dr. Tom Knabel and Kent Allin Kyle Kossol and Tom Becker Luis Pagan-Carlo and Joseph Sammartino John Sullivan
$5,000–$9,999 Karen Bachman Page and Jay Cowles Linda and Jesse Singh Drs. Greg Weber and James Barnett
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It is with deep appreciation that Minnesota Opera acknowledges those who have made generous leadership commitments for new initiatives in education, infrastructure, and community programming. Fellow Travelers is supported, in part, by the Innovate Now Initiative. Robert Kriel and Linda Krach Mary and Barry Lazarus Cynthia and Lawrence Lee Robert L. Lee and Mary E. Schaffner Mardag Foundation Harvey Thomas McLain Mary Bigelow McMillan* Kay Ness Mary H. and Christian G. Schrock Julie Steiner David Strauss
$250,000+ Julia W. Dayton Vicki and Chip Emery Ruth and John Huss Lucy Rosenberry Jones and James E. Johnson Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of the HRK Foundation in honor of Martha Hulings Kaemmer C. Angus* and Margaret Wurtele
$100,000–$249,999 Anonymous Patricia Beithon Best Buy Children’s Foundation Susan S. Boren Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad John and Kathy Junek Paul and Mary Reyelts Mary Vaughan Wenger Foundation
Anonymous (4) Karen Bachman Shari and David Boehnen Kenneth and Peggy Bonneville Mrs. Susan DeNuccio Terrance and Susan Dolan The Engh Foundation Gail Fiskewold Susanne Haas and Ross Formell Maureen and Mike Harms Sharon Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Philip Isaacson Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Margaret V. Kinney Dr. Tom Knabel and Kent Allin Kyle Kossol and Tom Becker Chris Larsen and Scott Peterson Kenyon S. Latham Celita and Eric Levinson Albin and Susan Nelson Luis Pagan-Carlo and Joseph Sammartino Rehael Fund — Roger Hale/Nor Hall of The Minneapolis Foundation Connie and Lew Remele Don and Patricia Romanaggi Jennifer and Chris Romans Nadege J. Souvenir and Joshua A. Dorothy Virginia L. and Edward C. Stringer John Sullivan Dr. Andrew J. Thomas Mrs. Joanne Von Blon Elaine J. Wold
$50,000–$99,999 Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the St. Paul Foundation Martha and H. Brewster Atwater Darlene J. and Richard P. Carroll Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Jane M. and Ogden W. Confer Ellie Crosby — The Longview Foundation Sara and Jock Donaldson William I. and Bianca M. Fine Charitable Trust Leni and David Moore Jr./Moore Family Fund for the Arts of The Minneapolis Foundation Gayle and Timothy Ober Linda and Jesse Singh H. Bernt von Ohlen and W. Thomas Nichol William White Wayne Zink and Christopher Schout
$25,000–$49,999 Anonymous (2) Richard Allendorf Nina and John* Archabal Michael Birt Will and Margee Bracken Ann and Glenn Buttermann Jay and Rebecca Debertin Jose Peris and Diana Gulden Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Miriam and Erwin Kelen
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