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Contents The Minnesota Opera Staff and Volunteers ........................................................... 6 Notes from the Leadership .................................................................................7 The Adventures of Pinocchio.............................................................................10 Background Notes .......................................................................................10 Synopsis.................................................................................................... 12 Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton ............................................................ 14 Out at the Opera............................................................................................. 15 The Artists ....................................................................................................16 The Minnesota Opera Chorus and Orchestra .........................................................20 2009–2010 Season Announcement .................................................................... 21 Education at the Opera ....................................................................................22 Coming Up: The Barber of Seville ......................................................................24 Tempo (the new Young Professionals Group) .......................................................25 Minnesota OperaWorks ...................................................................................26 The Minnesota Opera Annual Fund .....................................................................28 Donor Spotlight .............................................................................................29
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Catherine Ahern Ann Albertson Gerald Benson Jerry Cassidy Susan Cogger Caroline Coopersmith Jeanette Daun Judith Duncan Sally Economon Christopher Foster Hazel Francois Li-Jun Fu Jane Fuller Joan Gacki Christine A. Garner Mary E. Hagen Merle J. Hanson
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Music by Jonathan Dove Libretto by Alasdair Middleton after the tale by Carlo Collodi licensed by arrangement with C.F. Peters Corporation World premiere at the Grand Theatre, Leeds December 21, 2007 February 28, March 3, 5, 7 and 8, 2009 Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Sung in English with English translations Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Manson Stage Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martin Duncan Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nick Winston Set and Costume Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francis O’Connor Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davy Cunningham Wig and Makeup Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Moriarity-Dahlberg Assistant Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Bonas, Octavio Cardenas Production Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Farino
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The Cast
by David Sander
in order of appearance
Pinocchio . . . . . Adriana Zabala Geppetto . . . Andrew Wilkowske Cricket. . . . . . . Rebecca Bottone Barker . . . . . . .John David Boehr Arlecchino . . . . . . . . Brad Benoit Rosaura. . . . . Naomi Isabel Ruiz Pantalone . . . . . . . Bryan Boyce Fire Eater. . . . . . . . . .Ben Wager Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . Javier Abreu Fox . . . . . . . . . Randall Scotting The Blue Fairy. . . .Maureen O’Flynn Owl Doctor. . . .John David Boehr Crow Doctor. . . . . . Brian J. Kuhl
Beetle Doctor. . . . Nicole Percifield Parrot . . . . . . . Rebecca Bottone Ape Judge . . . . . . . . .Ben Wager Pigeon. . . . . . . . . . Cindy Sadler Coal Merchant . . . .John David Boehr Bricklayer . . . . . . . Brian J. Kuhl Lampwick . . . . . . . . Brad Benoit Big Green Fisherman. . . Ben Wager Snail . . . . . . . . . . . Cindy Sadler Coachman . . . . Randall Scotting Ringmaster . . . . . . . .Ben Wager Drum Maker. . . . . . Bryan Boyce Farmer. . . . . . . . . . . .Ben Wager
Dancers, puppet operators, acrobats, prisoners, puppet show audience, puppet policemen, fantasy rich people, lawyers, laborers, pupils, teachers, Funland vendors, circus troupe, echoes, villagers and townsfolk
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Additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Wigs provided by Jason Allen and Ronell Oliveri. Commissioned by Opera North (Leeds) with Sadler’s Wells Theatre; a coproduction with Opera North, Theater Chemnitz (Germany) and The Minnesota Opera. The appearances of Randall Scotting, regional finalist, and Javier Abreu and John David Boehr, district finalists of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, are made possible through a Minnesota Opera Endowment Fund established for Artist Enhancement by Barbara White Bemis. The appearances of the Resident Artists are made possible by the Virginia L. Stringer Endowment Fund for The Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program. Performances of The Adventures of Pinocchio are being taped for delayed broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio, ksjn 99.5 in the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Opera season is sponsored by FAF Advisors and U.S. Bank. The appearances of the 2008–2009 season conductors are underwritten by SpencerStuart.
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he most familiar perceptions of The Adventures of Pinocchio commonly include the image of an angelfaced, naïve youth with a malleable nose, a kindly father figure, grounded in a dignified profession with comfortable surroundings, and a helpful, world-wise cricket crooning a popular tune. Walt Disney’s upbeat film, first released in 1940, came at a time of economic stress and political uncertainty – the Great Depression had caused widespread financial hardship, while Dust Bowl-ravaged Middle America was plagued by drought, and global conflict loomed on the horizon. Jiminy Cricket’s “When You Wish Upon A Star” became an icon of unbridled (if not unrealistic) optimism, seconded only by the New Deal administration’s saccharine mantra “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Few people know of the decidedly darker tale, upon which the movie was based, by Italian author Carlo Collodi, which also made its appearance at a similarly troubled time. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Italian unity was shaky at best, besot with rampant political subterfuge as various factions grappled for power. There was still widespread poverty, class conflict and disparate regional prejudices at the country’s core. Storia di un burattino (The Story of a Puppet), later Le avventure di Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio), made its first appearance in 1881, serialized in Il giornale per i bambini just 10 years after the completion of the Risorgimento, the Italian war of independence from neighboring Austria. Through its protagonist’s eyes, the author presented a nightmarish, animalistic “eator-be-eaten” environment of great uncertainty, where danger and death lurked just around the corner and the next meal was far from certain. Violence is rampant in Collodi’s “story for children” in which several creatures die and others are maimed as its hardy title character embarks upon a series of Homeric journeys in his quest to become a real boy.
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Collodi (a pseudonym for Lorenzini) was born into meager Hungry, Pinocchio tries to make an omelet, but when he cracks an egg, a chick flies, thanking him for its freedom. circumstances during an era in which many children failed The scene initiates a persistent theme that haunts Collodi’s to survive to adulthood. He was one of ten children, forced entire work – a dire search for food. to live with close relatives until he fell under the patronage Collodi’s second part begins with the rescue of Pinocchio of a wealthy nobleman who paid for his education. Collodi and the road back to health. The Beetle Doctor (really volunteered in both Italian Wars for Unification (1848; the Talking Cricket making a third appearance) exposes 1859) before he turned to writing. He was a stage director Pinocchio’s past as a confirmed rascal, loafer and vagabond, at Florence’s Teatro della Pergola and an opera critic, whose defiant to his father who is dying of heartbreak. The favorite composers included Bel Canto giants Rossini, puppet recovers, and ignoring further admonishment from Bellini and Donizetti. The author’s early writings included political satire as well as reviews. He then participated in the the Cricket, attempts to stay on the straight-and-narrow. creation of a national dictionary, with the goal of assimilating In another deleted scene, to ease his insatiable famine, Pinocchio steals grapes from a farmer and gets stuck in an Italy’s various dialects into a single language. Collodi animal trap. A sagacious Firefly reminds him that “Hunger later turned to editing children’s teaching books and also translated 18th-century French fairy tales by Charles Perrault, … is not a good reason for appropriating what is not ours,” again reinforcing one of tale’s prevalent messages. Suddenly, Madame d’Aulnoy and Madame Leprince de Beaumont, the Farmer arrives and forces the puppet to serve as a before he crafted his own. Originally, Collodi’s fable ended guardian of the henhouse since his old dog, Melampus, has with the lynching of the puppet, strung up in a tree by the recently expired. In the course of the evening, Pinocchio is nefarious Cat and Fox, a single lesson of misplaced trust visited by four polecats, who try to strike a deal (the same and ill-spent gain. The popularity of his story coaxed the as they had with Melampus) to steal author into a continuation, with the eight hens, one of which is given to the development of the Blue Fairy as a watchdog. Pinocchio exposes their plot, guiding force and further adventures is released from bondage, and out of for the unfortunate puppet as he slowly respect for his predecessor’s reputation, learned the lessons of life. keeps Melampus’ duplicity a secret. Jonathan Dove and Alasdair It is at this juncture that we begin see Middleton’s opera stays close to the Pinocchio learning the rewards of hard Collodi original, though a few elements work and generous acts. of the plot are omitted for the sake of In another excised chapter, the brevity. The Italian fairy tale opens puppet visits the seashore with his deceptively without fantasy or glamour, schoolmates to see the Terrible Shark an homage to the era’s leading literary (not a whale, as in Disney). A heated faction, the Scapigliatura, a group of altercation ensues, during which one writers which emphasized quickly of the boys, Eugenio, is injured after moving realistic settings, extreme being struck by an arithmetic book and pessimism and the darker side of life. Pinocchio is arrested. More schoolbooks The very first line opens imaginatively are flung into the sea, first consumed, and expectedly: “Once upon a time there and then spat out by the fish – a biting was … a king?” but is followed by a set design by Francis O’Connor; commentary by Collodi on the value of down-to-earth realist foil: “No, children, photo courtesy of Opera North (Leeds); institutionalized education. Pinocchio you are wrong. Once upon a time there photographer Jeremy Paul © 2007 later inquires after Eugenio and learns was a piece of wood.” The scene plays that he has been blamed for the boy’s out in the shop of Maestro Antonio injuries. As the puppet tries to defend himself, enumerating Ciliegia, another carpenter, who discovers the wood’s his finer qualities, his nose grows again. When he corrects magical properties. After brawling with Geppetto (who, in contrast to his film counterpart, has a nasty temper), the two himself with words such as “disobedient” and “slacker,” the nose automatically shrinks back down to size. Near the end men make peace, and Antonio passes off the worrisome log of the story, the Cricket returns to deliver the moral, one to his impoverished friend. Geppetto is intent on carving that has been pounded relentlessly into the reader’s psyche a marionette whose service will generate income. Once his through the course of the narrative: “In this world we must puppet has legs, however, an independent streak becomes be good to everyone, whenever we can, if we want to be apparent as it runs out the door with Geppetto in close pursuit. The police seize Pinocchio by the nose and imprison repaid with the same kindness in time of need.” The other telling statement in Collodi’s story is made by his poor father, who is suspected of child abuse. Geppetto near the beginning: “I casi son tanti” – “So many In the meantime, a hundred-year-old Talking Cricket things can happen,” or more loosely translated, “Life is full rebukes Pinocchio for his disobedience and sloth and is of chances.” This sense of randomness guides the episodic ➤ smashed with mallet as a result of its unwelcome advice. BACKGROUND NOTES CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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Synopsis for the boy. Nonetheless, Pinocchio will not take the bitter medicine until he is scared by four black rabbits carrying a coffin. The Blue Fairy asks how Pinocchio came to be hung from the tree, and as he embellishes the story of the murderers, to his horror, his nose begins to grow. After Pinocchio promises never to lie again, the Fairy commands a flock of birds to peck his nose back down to size. Pinocchio promises to be good.
Scene one – The wood Geppetto discovers a log with very special properties.
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Scene two – Geppetto’s hut After hearing the cry “Make me!”, the carver crafts a puppet out of the wood. A newly christened Pinocchio runs about in search of something to eat, but the cupboards are bare, save only a dry crust of bread. Pinocchio soon learns the unwelcome lesson that food costs money. Realizing that his new son will need a spelling book, Geppetto goes out, ordering Pinocchio to tidy up the house. Instead, the undisciplined youth lazes by the fire and is reproached by a Cricket, who cautions him to change his ways or suffer the consequences. The helpful Cricket is squashed for his unsolicited advice. Pinocchio dozes off and his feet are burned off in the hearth. Having sold his coat to pay for the book, Geppetto returns and declares he will only make new feet if his son promises to be good.
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Scene three – A street Pinocchio sets off for school but is distracted by a puppet show and sells his spelling book for admission. Scene four – The puppet theater The other puppets recognize Pinocchio and greet him. Their master, the Fire Eater, is angered by the interruption and threatens to throw one of the puppets
into the fire. Pinocchio begs him not to do it, offering himself in his place. Impressed by the boy’s bravery, the Fire Eater gives him five gold coins. Scene five – A street Cat and Fox spy the trusting child in the street. They suggest Pinocchio bury his small fortune in the Field of Miracles and watch it grow a thousand-fold overnight.
Scene eight – The wood Cat and Fox lurk nearby in the forest and persuade Pinocchio to bury his small fortune in the field, close his eyes and wait for the money to grow. When he discovers he has been swindled, the puppet is mocked by a Parrot, who has observed the entire event.
Scene six – The wood The Ghost of the Cricket appears and warns Pinocchio about the ruse, but the woodenheaded youngster will not listen. Now disguised as assassins, Cat and Fox try to stab, then hang Pinocchio from an oak tree, after he has tried to seek refuge in a nearby cottage. The home belongs to the Blue Fairy, who helps Pinocchio by ordering birds to peck Scene nine – The court and jail him down. Pinocchio cries for justice and is Scene seven – The Blue Fairy’s cottage sentenced to three months in prison The Blue Fairy consults three doctors, for being so easy to fool. all of whom deliver a bleak prognosis Scene ten – The wood After serving his term, Pinocchio rushes to the home of the Blue Fairy and is told by a Pigeon she has died of grief, having been abandoned by her new friend. He also learns that Geppetto has traveled a great distance looking for him. The Pigeon offers to fly him to his father. Scene eleven – A beach At the beach, Pinocchio finds out that Geppetto has set sail in a rickety old boat. He dives into the water after him. – intermission –
Synopsis act ii Scene one – Drudgeland On the Island of the Busy Bees, workers buzz happily at their tasks while Pinocchio begs for food in the street. The Blue Fairy (who is not really dead) appears, offering refreshments only if Pinocchio will lug several jugs to her home. The puppet longs to be a real boy. Scene two – The seashore Lampwick dissuades Pinocchio from attending school, dragging him to the beach to see the Monster Fish. Instead they encounter the Big Green Fisherman who catches Pinocchio with his net. He is released when the fisherman discovers he does not like to eat wood. Scene three – Outside the Blue Fairy’s house Pinocchio encounters a Snail and demands entry into the house. As the Snail takes her time to let him in, Pinocchio tries to kick the door in and gets his foot stuck. The Blue Fairy arrives and scolds him for skipping school. Still, she promises that tomorrow he will be turned into a real boy.
Scene five – Funland The amusement park turns out to be a lie, as Pinocchio, Lampwick and other boys are quickly turned into donkeys.
Scene four – A street Pinocchio meets Lampwick, who is waiting for the Funland Express. He persuades the puppet to join him.
Scene seven – The seashore The Drum Maker throws the former puppet into the sea in order to drown him. But the Blue Fairy appears and Pinocchio is chewed down to his original wooden state by a school of fish. Swimming away, he is consumed by the Monster Fish.
Scene nine – The village by the sea On the beach, the puppet runs for help for his exhausted father. He encounters the Cricket, who believes the old man needs some milk. Running to a nearby farm, Pinocchio agrees to work in order to earn the money to save his father’s life. Cat and Fox enter, now blind and lame and seeking charity. Lampwick, still a donkey who has labored on the farm, lies dying. Pinocchio realizes the merits of work and makes some money. The Snail enters, distressed by the Blue Fairy’s sudden illness. The puppet gives her his wages to buy food and medicine. The Blue Fairy appears and announces that the puppet has finally learned life’s secrets – love and sacrifice – and to his delight, Pinocchio becomes a real boy.
Scene six – The circus As a donkey Pinocchio is forced to perform, but fails miserably, breaking his leg. A Drum Maker offers to buy him for his skin.
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Scene eight – Inside the big fish Pinocchio finds Geppetto in the creature’s belly. As it sleeps, they escape through the Fish’s mouth and swim to shore.
Costume design by Francis O’Connor
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JONATHAN
Dove
b London, July 18, 1959
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inner of the 2008 Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music, Jonathan Dove is known for taking opera to new places and reaching new audiences. The Adventures of Pinocchio is his twenty-first opera. His airport-comedy Flight (“one of the few successful comic operas of recent musical history” The Sunday Times) was Jonathan Dove premiered at Glyndebourne photographer: Hugo Glendinning in 1998 and broadcast on Channel 4; a recording is available on Chandos. The Glyndebourne production of Flight has toured Europe and new productions have followed in the usa and Germany – all meeting with an enthusiastic response from both audiences and music critics. In 2005, Flight was seen in Boston and again at Glyndebourne; in March 2006, it received its Australian premiere during the Adelaide Festival for which it won the Helpmann Award for Best Opera. In 2008, it was performed in London by British Youth Opera. In 2006–2007, his “musical tale” The Enchanted Pig (libretto by Alasdair Middleton) was given more than 80 performances at the Young Vic and on tour. He has written two operas especially for television, both commissioned and broadcast by Channel 4. When She Died, about the public reaction to the death of Princess Diana, was watched by nearly a million people in the United Kingdom alone at its first broadcast in 2002 (a staged version was premiered at the Kammeroper Vienna in March 2007). Man on the Moon, about the first moonlanding, won the Opera Special Prize at the Rose d’Or festival in 2007 and a Gold Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival 2008. An unusual achievement has been a series of “community operas” in different parts of the United Kingdom, sometimes involving several hundred performers in a single event. His community cantata On Spital Fields received a Royal Philharmonic Society Award and a British Composers award. From 2001–2006, he was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival. His commitment to working in his own community is also shown in The Hackney Chronicles, an opera for nine-year-old performers, and The Palace in the Sky, a community opera for the millennium performed at the Hackney Empire. His church opera, Tobias and the Angel, includes an adult community chorus and a children’s chorus. First performed in Islington in 1999, it reopened the Young Vic theater in 2006 and has enjoyed several productions since, receiving its United States premiere in Baltimore in 2008.
Dove’s choral music includes a song cycle, The Passing of the Year, and several anthems and carols, among them The Three Kings, commissioned by King’s College Cambridge, and The Far Theatricals of Day, settings of Emily Dickinson for soloists, choir, brass quintet and organ. Solo song-cycles include Five Am’rous Sighs, Ariel, All You Who Sleep Tonight, Out of Winter, Minterne and All the Future Days. Numerous instrumental works include pieces for special occasions, such as the opening ceremonies of London’s Millennium Dome and Millennium Bridge. In 2007, Dove was composer-in-residence in the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival. Among his works included in the festival was his chamber opera Siren Song, which has subsequently been released on compact disc by Chandos. In 2009, he will be composer-in-residence. Jonathan has written the music for 30 theater productions, most recently Oedipus for the National Theatre. In 1998, he was joint winner of the Christopher Whelen Award for his work in the fields of theater-music and opera. In 2008, he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri fellowship and joined the Cape Farewell voyage to the Arctic to experience climate change at first hand in the company of scientists and musicians.
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Middleton
b Richmond, Yorkshire, January 28, 1963
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lasdair Middleton’s work as a librettist includes The World Was All Before Them, Lessons From Harmony, Antarctica and On London Fields (winner of a Royal Philharmonic Award 2005), all for Matthew King; A Bird In Your Ear and Out Of The Ordinary for David Bruce; Fairytale Romance and Everything Money Can Buy for Laura Bowler; The Feathered Friend for Helen Chadwick; The Hackney Chronicles, Red Riding Hood, On Spital Fields (winner of a Royal Philharmonic Award 2006), An Old Way To Pay New Debts, The Enchanted Pig and The Adventures of Pinocchio, all for Jonathan Dove. His play Einmal was premiered at The Stoked Festival in Autumn 2007. Alasdair Middleton
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Jim Dine Pinocchio Turns Away, 2007 charcoal, oil aluminum paint, acrylic and pastel on paper 60� x 36� (152.4 cm x 91.4 cm) Photo by Murray Sampson / Courtesy the artist and PaceWildenstein, New York
mythological journey, he encounters a veritable Noah’s Ark of creatures, some being malevolent, culminating in a confrontation with the Terrible Shark, one of nature’s most dangerous predators, which he is able to conquer by escape. The hero-puppet is brave, resilient and a survivor, but his wooden head is also stubborn, egotistical and frustrating. His counterpart and moral compass, the La bella bambina dai cappelli turchini (the beautiful little girl with the indigo hair) is similarly enigmatic. Contrary to her lesson about lying (a notion the Disney film mercilessly drives home), she uses deceit and trickery to achieve her ends, manipulating the puppet into finally doing good deeds. She takes charge of his ethical maturation. Though
Pinocchio transforms from marionette to boy, the Blue Fairy undergoes a greater change, from girl to woman to animal (in the original story) to old woman and alternates between death and life in multiples instances. The Adventures of Pinocchio has been translated into almost 100 languages and is the most recognizable work of 19th-century Italian literature. It is the first English edition, made in 1892 by Mary Alice Murray, in which Pinocchio began its metamorphosis. While hugely popular in its native nation (in terms of book sales, the third most in-demand after the Bible and Dante’s Divine Comedy), in England and America, some of the sinister and more brutal attributes did not suite Victorian standards and were removed. Pinocchio’s rude behavior was also toned down as not to encourage young readers to go astray. In the 1920s, several increasingly lighter plays were adapted from the original text, leaving a wake for Disney’s radical reformation, a film that has held the pristine vision of Pinocchio intact for decades. In recent years, however, several books have gone back to the grittier side of Collodi’s narrative. The comprehensive Pinocchio goes postmodern: perils of a puppet in the United States (Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J. Morrissey, 2002), identifies three contemporary novels inspired by Collodi’s original. Pinocchio’s Nose (1983) by Jerome Charyn spins a political parable within a sardonic fairy tale in which the central character identifies with the story of Pinocchio and experiences similarly widespread adventures, but in the rough, urban world. Robert Coover’s Pinocchio in Venice (1997) provides a post-sequel to Collodi’s fairy tale. With shades of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, the Nobel Prize-winning aged professor Pinenut reexamines his life and visits old friends. At the same time he searches for the Blue Fairy for a cure – his limbs are beginning to detach and skin easily sloughs off as he slowly turns back into wood. Pinocchio’s Wife (1992) by ➤ BACKGROUND NOTES CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
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Cat Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Le Comte Ory, Tacoma Opera Don Pasquale, Anchorage Opera Il viaggio a Reims, New Israeli Opera La Cenerentola, New Jersey Opera; Opera Fairbanks Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Florida Grand Opera Upcoming La cabeza del bautista, Gran Teatro del Liceu (Barcelona) Il barbiere di Siviglia, New Israeli Opera Before Night Falls, Forth Worth Opera
John David Boehr Barker; Owl Doctor; Coal Merchant Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Recently La Cenerentola, Austin Lyric Opera Faust; A Masked Ball; Romeo and Juliet; others, Minn. Opera Trinity, Santa Fe Opera; L’Ormindo, Pittsburgh Opera Center Tosca; Don Pasquale; La Cenerentola, Palm Beach Opera Die Zauberflöte; Barnum’s Bird; L’elisir d’amore; Così fan tutte, Baylor Opera Theater Upcoming The Barber of Seville, The Minnesota Opera L’étoile, Austin Lyric Opera
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Pantalone; Drum Maker Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Recently Il trovatore, The Minnesota Opera Le nozze di Figaro, Berkeley Repertory Theatre La bohème; Susannah, Theatre Latté Da; La bohème, Opera Fresca Figaro; Don Juan Giovanni, American Repertory Theater; Theatre de la Jeune Lune The Ballad of Baby Doe; L’incoronazione di Poppea, Central City Opera Upcoming The Barber of Seville, The Minnesota Opera
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Brad Benoit Arlecchino; Lampwick Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Recently Il trovatore, The Minnesota Opera Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Il mondo della luna; Postcard from Morocco; The Turn of the Screw; L’enfant et les sortilèges, Chicago College of Performing Arts Gianni Schicchi; Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera in the Ozarks Upcoming The Barber of Seville; Casanova’s Homecoming; Roberto Devereux; Salome, The Minnesota Opera
Rebecca Bottone Cricket; Parrot Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Il matrimonio segreto, Scottish Opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Aix-en-Provence Festival Powder Her Face, Lindbury Studio The Minotaur, Royal Opera House – Covent Garden Thaïs, Théâtre du Châtalet Upcoming Ermione, London Symphony Orchestra (Opera Rara) Patience, bbc Proms
Brian J. Kuhl Crow Doctor; Bricklayer Minnesota Opera Debut Recently La traviata, Minnesota Orchestra Mahagonny Songspiel, Des Moines Metro Opera L’incoronazione di Poppea; Street Scene; Le nozze di Figaro; The Turn of the Screw; Gianni Schicchi, University of Minnesota Opera Theatre Orazi e Curiazi; Don Giovanni; Carmen; Maria Padilla; Die Zauberflöte (ensemble), The Minnesota Opera
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Blue Fairy Minnesota Opera Debut Lucia di Lammermoor, 2001 Recently Faust, Opera Carolina; Carmen, Portland Opera Roméo et Juliette, L’Opéra de Montréal Les pêcheurs des perles, Florida Grand Opera La traviata, Minnesota Orchestra La donna del lago; Die lustige Witwe, The Minnesota Opera Upcoming La rondine, Metropolitan Opera Così fan tutte, Arizona Opera
Beetle Doctor Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Recently Faust, The Minnesota Opera Cendrillon, Central City Opera Griffelkin; Araboolies of Liberty Street; The Village Singer, Manhattan School of Music Little Women; Suor Angelica; Hansel and Gretel, New England Conservatory of Music Upcoming Casanova’s Homecoming; Salome, The Minnesota Opera Opera Theatre of St. Louis Apprentice Artist
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Rosaura Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Recently Il trovatore, The Minnesota Opera A Wedding; Don Giovanni, Indiana University Opera Theater La bohème, Brevard Music Center La rondine; A Streetcar Named Desire; Così fan tutte; Le nozze di Figaro; Hansel and Gretel; Il matrimonio segreto, Indiana University Opera Workshop Upcoming The Barber of Seville; La bohème; Salome, Minnesota Opera
Pigeon; Snail Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Cavalleria rusticana, San Antonio Lyric Opera Il trittico, El Paso Opera; New Orleans Opera Il barbiere di Siviglia; Elektra, Austin Lyric Opera The Rake’s Progress; Die Zauberflöte, Des Moines Metro Opera Gianni Schicchi, Opera Santa Barbara The Crucible; South Pacific, Opera Boston Upcoming Dialogues des Carmélites, Austin Lyric Opera Das Rheingold, Indianapolis Opera
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Fox; Coachman Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Fulbright Scholar: Folk and Modern Composers (Budapest) Steans Institute at Ravinia – 2008 Ravinia Festival A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Des Moines Metro Opera Bobby McFerrin Artists Concert, Weill Music Institute Die Fledermaus, Boulder Opera Theatre Upcoming Fulbright Music Gala (Berlin, Germany) Agrippina, Landestheater Neustrelitz Rinaldo, Teatro Degollado
Fire Eater; Ape Judge; Fisherman; Ringmaster; Farmer Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Rigoletto, Opera New Jersey Don Giovanni, Chicago Opera Theater Anna Bolena; La fiamma; Elijah; Così fan tutte; La forza del destino, Academy of Vocal Arts Upcoming Lucia di Lammermoor, Academy of Vocal Arts The Rape of Lucretia, Opera Company of Philadelphia Die Gezeichneten, Los Angeles Opera Don Giovanni; Boris Godunov, Dallas Opera
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Geppetto Minnesota Opera Debut Transatlantic, 1998 Recently The Grapes of Wrath, Pittsburgh Opera Die Zauberflöte, Eugene Opera; Indianapolis Opera Le nozze di Figaro, Green Mountain Opera; Ash Lawn Opera Richard Tucker Gala, Avery Fisher Hall The Fly; Madame Butterfly; Tosca, Los Angeles Opera The Bells (Rachmaninoff), Buffalo Philharmonic L’italiana in Algeri; Le nozze di Figaro; The Grapes of Wrath; others, The Minnesota Opera
Pinocchio Minnesota Opera Debut Der Rosenkavalier, 2000 Recently Le nozze di Figaro, Op. Lyra Ottawa; Il barbiere di Siviglia, Op. Carolina Waiting for the Barbarians (Glass), Austin Lyric Opera Carmen, Opera Pacific; Tartuffe, Lake George Opera Roméo et Juliette; Les contes d’Hoffmann, The Minnesota Opera La Cenerentola, Opera Carolina; Arizona Op.; Atlanta Op. Upcoming Le nozze di Figaro, Green Mountain Opera Company Hänsel und Gretel, Austin Lyric Opera
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Assistant Director Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Die Zauberflöte, English National Opera Katya Kabanova, Santa Fe Opera Don Carlos, Los Angeles Opera The Adventures of Pinocchio, Opera North (Leeds) The Gondoliers, English National Opera Carmen Jones, Royal Festival Hall Upcoming A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal College of Music Turandot, English National Opera
Assistant Director Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Recently Il trovatore; Abduction; Faust (ad), The Minnesota Opera Così fan tutte; La traviata (ad), Chautauqua Opera Die Fledermaus (ad), Austin Lyric; L’elisir d’amore, Guadalajara Plump Jack; The Impresario; The Turn of the Screw; La chute de la maison Uscher, Butler Opera Center Upcoming Brundibaár (Project Opera – sd); Opera en fuego (rap Cabaret – sd); The Barber of Seville (ad), The Minnesota Opera Tosca; Il trovatore (ad), Chautauqua Opera
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Lighting Designer Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Tosca, Bregenz Festival; Die lustige Witwe, Copenhagen Werther, Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels) Tosca, Venice and Lisbon; Lear, Frankfurt I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Genoa The Cripple of Inishmaan, Druid Theatre and Broadway Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Weir, Ireland A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lyon and Athens Upcoming Doktor Faustus; Cardillac, Dresden; Aida, Hamburg
Stage Director Minnesota Opera Debut Recently The Love for Three Oranges, Oper der Stadt Köln Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Bayerische Staatsoper The Adventures of Pinocchio, Opera North; Theater Chemnitz The Last Supper, Festival Internazionale della Musica A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opera North (Leeds) The Gondoliers, English National Opera Man of La Mancha, Lyceum (Edinburgh) Upcoming Mirandolina, Garsington Opera
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Francis O’Connor Set and Costume Designer Minnesota Opera Debut Recently La fanciulla del West; Die Zauberflöte, Grange Park Opera Don Pasquale, Grand Théâtre de Genève Ariadne auf Naxos, Garsington Opera La traviata, English National Opera Manon; Pinocchio, Opera North (Leeds) Upcoming Mirandolina, Garsington Opera Lucrezia Borgia, Buxton Festival Capriccio, Grange Park Opera
Nick Winston Choreographer Minnesota Opera Debut Recently Horrid Henry: Live and Horrid, Sheffield Lyceum and uk tour The Wizard of Oz, Royal Festival Hall By Jeeves; Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, uk tour The Adventures of Pinocchio, Opera North; Theater Chemnitz Another Kind of Magic, Scandinavian Arena Tour Stepping Out, Derby Playhouse The Music of Dirty Dancing, uk and European tour The Thing About Men, uk King’s Head Theatre Follies, Royal & Durngate (tma nomination: Best Musical)
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Michael Kenyon deals with gender issues, sexuality and infidelity as Pinocchio, his spouse and Lampwick try to sort things out in a love triangle while the Blue Fairy commentates and Geppetto wastes away in a rest home. In the visual arts, Jim Dine has had a life long interest in representations of Pinocchio, culminating in a 2007 exhibition of 17 sculptures depicting the wooden puppet. Pinocchio is viewed as “an allegory of the struggle with the unpredictability of the process of creating art.” (Jim Dine: Pinocchio, notes by Michael Thomas Davis, PaceWildenstein exhibition catalogue). In music, Dove and Middleton’s The Adventures of Pinocchio joins the pantheon of fairy tale opera that spans three centuries in works by Grétry, Rossini, Massenet, Dvorˇák, Humperdinck, Puccini and Henze, to name a few. According to one creator, “Opera has no problem embracing the strange and the magical. Writing an opera of The Adventures of Pinocchio was an opportunity to rescue some of the peculiar enchantment of Collodi’s imagination. The dramatic incidents and extraordinary characters call for colorful music teeming with invention and vivid contrasts. Marionette dances, fairground rides, thieves giving chase; terrifying men and a captivating girl; crime and punishment, remorse and reconciliation – it’s all a gift for a composer.” ❚
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Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:00-9:00pm, The Minnesota Opera Center Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, first performed in 1816, remains the most frequently performed comic opera ever written. The principal reason for its attraction to audiences, naturally, is its music, which represents the first stages of a rejuvenation of Italian opera that lasted for a century. In comic style, the music of Rossini never offers challenges to the listener – only delights. The story of the opera, based on a popular French play by Beaumarchais, features a variant of common 18th-century dramatic scenarios in which a wily, beautiful young woman has to outsmart a wealthy, ridiculous older man in order to make her dreams of marriage come true. Join Daniel Freeman and discover how audiences have found the characterizations and love intrigues as enjoyable as the music written to help bring them to life.
Project Opera will present a twin bill of Brundibár and Iolanthe at the Ritz Theatre (345 – 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis) on April 3–4, 2009. Brundibár is a children’s opera composed in 1938 by Hans Krása and will be performed with the new English translation by Tony Kushner. Notably, this work was presented 55 times at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II, and tells the story of Little Joe and his sister, Annette, who try to sing and dance for milk for their sick mother and are drowned out by the organ-grinder, Brundibár. Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri is a light-hearted story about Strephon, a shepherd, who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Phyllis does not know that Strephon is half fairy, and when she sees Strephon kissing what looks like a young woman, she assumes the worst. But her “rival” turns out to be none other than Strephon’s own mother, Iolanthe, a fairy – and fairies never grow old. Project Opera is the Opera’s training program for young singers in grades 4–12 that continues throughout the school year. Participants learn vocal technique and health, acting, movement skills, foreign languages and more. Contact the Ritz Theatre at 612.436.1129 for tickets. Dana Carlson, a Project Opera member from Somerset, Wisconsin, was invited to sing the National Anthem at the Wisconsin State Assembly Inauguration in January.
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“Minnesota OperaWorks is the most important new works program in the country.” — Marc Scorca, President of Opera America Minnesota OperaWorks is the most ambitious artistic project in the company’s 46-year history. It is a seven-year commitment to produce one contemporary opera per season, including three world premieres. The idea for Minnesota OperaWorks was born out of the success of our 2007 world premiere of The Grapes of Wrath. The show was a hit with Twin Cities audiences, as well as the critics and the opera world. It prompted an exciting strategic planning process to build on the company’s achievement.
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The company will remain true to the great works of opera, while adding new works to the repertoire. Operas like La bohème, La traviata and Turandot will be produced alongside contemporary operas in the coming seasons. Favorites like these were themselves new works at one point, born in a particular place and time, and The Minnesota Opera is adding to that rich legacy. In our challenging economic times, we are grateful that $4 million of the $5.5 million budget for Minnesota OperaWorks has already been pledged. So while other companies are cutting programs, The Minnesota Opera will move forward with this one. Also, the company will digitally distribute the commissioned operas, harnessing new media to bring these works to a global audience. We encourage you to visit our Minnesota OperaWorks Facebook page and participate in the program. We invite you to become our “fan” on Facebook: watch online video clips, listen to music from OperaWorks composers and tell us what you think. Opera is the original multimedia art form, perfectly suited to our multi-media age.
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Terence Fruth and Mary McEvoy Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Heidi and Howard Gilbert Stanley and Luella Goldberg Amy R. and Philip S. Goldman Foundation Michael and Elizabeth Gorman Mr. and Mrs. William Grandy Bruce and Jean Grussing Hackensack Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation Ruth E. Hanold Don Helgeson and Sue Shepard Rosmarie and John Helling Sharon and Cliff Hill Diane Hoey John and Jean McGough Holten Margaret and Andrew Houlton Thomas Hunt and John Wheelihan Ekdahl Hutchinson Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Todd Hyde Teresa and Chuck Jakway James Jelinek and Marilyn Wall Markle Karlen Mr. Thomas A. Keller III E. Robert and Margaret V. Kinney Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Jolie and Steve Klapmeier Mr. and Mrs. William Kling Gerard Knight
Mrs. James S. Kochiras Robert Kriel and Linda Krach Constance and Daniel Kunin Mark and Elaine Landergan Sy and Ginny Levy Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Jerry and Joyce Lillquist Bill Long Dawn M. Loven Mahley Family Foundation Margery Martin Roy and Dorothy Mayeske Helen and Charles McCrossan Patricia and Samuel McCullough Sheila McNally The Kendrick B. Melrose Family Foundation Velia R. Melrose William Messerli Jane and Joseph Micallef David and LaVonne Middleton Anne W. Miller Moore Family Fund for the Arts Sandy and Bob Morris Judy and David Myers Elizabeth B. Myers Joan and Richard Newmark Rebecca and Bradley Nuss Mr. and Mrs. E. Gerald O’Brien Pat and Dan Panshin Allegra W. Parker Paula Patineau Suzanne and William Payne
Suzanne and Rick Pepin Mary and Robert Price Connie and Jim Pries Sara and Kevin Ramach Barbara Redmond George Reid John and Sandra Roe Foundation Thomas D. and Nancy J. Rohde Gordon and Margaret Rosine Leland T. Lynch and Terry Saario Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Sampson Family Charitable Foundation Patty and Barney Saunders Jim Scarpetta Janet and Dan Schalk James and Lynn Schell Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Schindler Kristi and Mark Specker The Harriet and Edson Spencer Foundation Leslie and Don Stiles Robert and Barbara Struyk Michael Symeonides and Mary Pierce Tempo Board Members Carolyn and Andrew Thomas Lois and Lance Thorkelson Patricia Tilton Emily Anne and Gedney Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Philip Von Blon James and Sharon Weinel Clark J. and Sharon L. Winslow
Donor Spotlight
Though music has always been an important part of the life of the Redpath family, opera seems to have taken center stage. Mother Sigrid studied voice when she was younger, and as Liv began to take interest in classical music and vocal performance, the family turned to The Minnesota Opera looking for a unique vocal program. Project Opera turned out to be the perfect program. Says Sigrid, “one thing Project Opera has done for our family is to get us all interested in, well, operas!” Liv, age 16, has been in the Project Opera program for five years, and brother Kjell, age 11, joined this past year. With a focus on the individual voice and opportunities for personal growth, Sigrid believes The Minnesota
Giovanni; Liv has attended most of the company’s productions over the past few years. In fact, a recent family trip to Italy provided yet another occasion for opera appreciation. Their trip was specifically routed through Milan so the family could visit La Scala – Sigrid and Liv took in a performance of La traviata, an evening they considered a highlight of the trip. The Redpath family is extremely Kjell, Dave, Liv and Sigrid Redpath, grateful for all opportunities Minnesota Opera Donors and Project Opera family. presented through Project Opera and is proud to list The Opera’s education programs have Minnesota Opera as one of the “empowered her children to dream” family’s charitable priorities. – Liv plans on pursuing a vocal As opera patrons, opera donors performance degree after high school. and opera singers, the Redpath While The Adventures of Pinocchio will family is clearly committed to be Kjell’s second opera experience, The Minnesota Opera. the first was a rehearsal of Don
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$1,000–$2,499
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Annual Fund INDIVIDUAL GIVING
Patron Circle Gold $750–$999 Anonymous Gerald and Phyllis Benson Joann Cierniak Amos and Sue Deinard Jennifer Gross and Jerry LeFevre Stefan and Lonnie Helgeson Frederick J. Hey, Jr. Orpha McDiarmid Family Fund James and Andrea Rubenstein Dr. Leon and Alma Satran Warren Stortroen Dana and Stephen Strand Frank and Frances Wilkinson Lani Willis and Joel Spoonheim James Wire
Silver $500–$749 Arlene Goodman Alm Eric S. Anderson and Janalee R. Aurelia Jamie Andrews and Jane Kolp-Andrews Dr. and Mrs. Orn Arnar Jo and Gordon Bailey Family Fund of the Catholic Community Foundation James and Gail Bakkom Donald and Naren Bauer Barbara S. Belk Brian Benjamin Donna Block
Fred and Carolyn Bogott Judith and Arnold Brier Thomas and Joyce Bruckner Caulkins Family Foundation Arnold Chu and I-ming Shih Wanda and David Cline J.P. Collins Elisabeth Comeaux Bill and Kate Cullen Norma Danielson Mary Elise Dennis Mr. Steven A. Diede Joe Dowling and Siobahn Cleary Joan Duddingston Herbert and Betty Fantle Sheila and Roland Faricy Charles and Anne Ferrell Carolyn Fiterman Susanne Haas and Ross Formell Kris and Kristina Fredrick Jane Fuller David Gilberstadt Katherine and Robert Goodale, Jr. Robert Goodell and Renee Brown Kathy and Hazen Graves Marjorie and Joseph Grinnell Roger L. Hale and Nor Hall Albert and Janice Hammond Gregory Hoehn John and Marna Holman
Diane and Paul Jacobson Mrs. Owen Jenkins Margaret K. and Philip Johnson Janet Jones Drs. Charles and Sally Jorgensen Nancy and Donald Kapps Chad and Penny Kastner Jane and Jim Kaufman Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Jonathan and Lisa Lewis Rebecca Lindholm Bruce and Susan Lueck Ruth W. Lyons Joanne MacNamara Donald and Rhoda Mains Tom and Marsha Mann Marian and Michael McCann Thomas and Joan Mears L. David Mech Charles and Victoria Mogilevsky Jack and Jane Moran Ann and John O’Leary Derrill M. Pankow Carroll and Barbara Rasch Dan Rasmus and Kari Fedje Rasmus Dennis M. Ready Lawrence M. Redmond Red Wing Opera Study Group Joan K. Regal William and Sue Roberts
Ann M. Rock Liane A. and Richard G. Rosel Daniel Roth Fred Saleh Anne Salisbury David E. Sander Mahlon and Karen Schneider Paul L. Schroeder Mrs. Donald Sell Bill and Althea Sell Clifford C. and Virginia G. Sorensen Charitable Trust of The Saint Paul Foundation Matthew Spanjers Daniel J. Spiegel Jon Y. Spoerri Roxanne Stouffer and Joseph Cruz Anthony Thein Greg Thompson Stephanie C. Van D’Elden Morgan Walsh David M. and Mary Ann Barrows Wark Howard and Jo Weiner Barbara and Carl White Helen and J. Kimball Whitney Barbara and James Willis Mr. John W. Windhorst, Jr.
These lists are current as of January 1, 2009 and include donors who gave a gift of $500 or more during The Minnesota Opera’s Annual Fund Campaign. If your name is not listed appropriately, please accept our apologies and contact Morgan Walsh, Individual Gifts Manager, at 612-342-9569.
Estate AND Planned Gifts
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The Minnesota Opera thanks the following donors who, through their foresight and generosity, have included the Opera in their wills or estate plans. We invite you to join other opera-lovers by leaving a legacy gift to The Minnesota Opera. If you have already made such a provision, we encourage you to notify us that so we may appropriately recognize your generosity.
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Anonymous (2) Valerie and Paul Ackerman Thomas O. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Andreassen Mary A. Andres Karen Bachman Mark and Pat Bauer Mrs. Harvey O. Beek (†) Barbara and Sandy Bemis (†) Joan and George Carlson Darlene J. and Richard P. Carroll Judy and Kenneth (†) Dayton Mrs. George Doty Rudolph Driscoll (†) Sally Economon
Ester and John Fesler Paul Froeschl Robert and Ellen Green Ieva Grundmanis (†) Norton M. Hintz Jean McGough Holten Charles Hudgins Dale and Pat Johnson Robert and Susan Josselson Mrs. Markle Karlen (†) Mary Keithahn Steve Keller Patty and Warren Kelly Margaret Kilroe Trust (†) Blaine and Lyndel King
Gretchen Klein (†) Bill and Sally Kling Gisela Knoblauch (†) Mr. and Mrs. James Krezowski Robert Kriel and Linda Krach Venetia and Robert Kudrle Robert Lawser, Jr. Jean Lemberg (†) Gerald and Joyce Lillquist David Mayo Barbara and Thomas McBurney Mary Bigelow McMillan Margaret L. and Walter S. (†) Meyers Susan Molder (†) Edith Mueller (†)
Scott Pakudiatis Sydney and William Phillips Mrs. Berneen Rudolph Mary Savina Frank and Lynda Sharbrough Andrew H. Stewart, Jr. Barbara and Robert Struyk James and Susan Sullivan Gregory C. Swinehart Stephanie Van D’Elden Mary Vaughan Dale and Sandra Wick
For more information on possible gift arrangements, please contact Annual Fund Director Dawn Loven at 612-342-9567. Your attorney or financial advisor can then help determine which methods are most appropriate for you.
(†) Deceased
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INSTITUTIONAL GIVING For information on making a corporate or foundation contribution to The Minnesota Opera, please contact Institutional Gifts Manager Beth Comeaux at 612-342-9566, or email her at bcomeaux@mnopera.org.
The Minnesota Opera gratefully acknowledges its major institutional supporters: $100,000+
$25,000 –$49,999
$50,000 –$99,999
$10,000 –$24,999
Minnesota Opera Sponsors Season Sponsor
Conductor Appearances
Meet the Artists Official Caterer
Broadcast Partner
FAF Advisors and U.S. Bank
SpencerStuart
Wildside Caterers
Minnesota Public Radio
Production Sponsors
Camerata Dinners
Production Innovation System
Il trovatore, FAF Advisors and U.S. Bank Faust, Ameriprise Financial The Adventures of Pinocchio, Target and the National Endowment for the Arts The Barber of Seville, Wells Fargo
Lowry Hill Private Asset Management
General Mills
Gala Sponsors
Resident Artist Program
Target U.S. Bank
Wenger Foundation
Corporations, Foundations and Government 3M Foundation Ameriprise Financial City of Saint Paul’s Cultural STAR Program FAF Advisors General Mills Foundation The MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation The McKnight Foundation The Medtronic Foundation Minnesota State Arts Board National Endowment for the Arts OPERA America’s Opera Fund Target The Travelers Company, Inc. U.S. Bancorp Foundation U.S. Bank, Private Client Group UnitedHealth Group Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota
Platinum $10,000–$24,999 Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation Best Buy Children’s Foundation
Cargill Foundation Deluxe Corporation Foundation Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Ecolab Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Anna M. Heilmaier Charitable Foundation Lowry Hill Private Asset Management RBC Foundation – USA RBC Wealth Management SpencerStuart Twin Cities Opera Guild Valspar Foundation Wenger Foundation
Gold $5,000–$9,999 ADC Telecommunications Allianz Life Insurance of North America Bemis Company Foundation Boss Foundation Cleveland Foundation Deloitte Education Minnesota Foundation Faegre & Benson
Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts R. C. Lilly Foundation Mayo Clinic MTS Corporation Onan Family Foundation Pentair Foundation The Carl and Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Rahr Foundation Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. SUPERVALU Foundation on behalf of SUPERVALU Inc. Xcel Energy Foundation
Silver $2,500–$4,999 Dellwood Foundation Fredrikson & Byron Foundation Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Hutter Family Foundation Peravid Foundation The Elizabeth C. Quinlan Foundation
Margaret Rivers Fund Securian Foundation Sit Investment Foundation Tennant Foundation Thyme to Entertain
Bronze $1,000–$2,499 The ADS Group Arts & Custom Publishing Co., Inc. Bailey Nurseries, Inc. Burdick-Craddick Family Foundation Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. Hogan & Hartson Leonard, Street & Deinard McVay Foundation Alice M. O’Brien Foundation Lawrence M. O’Shaughnessy Charitable Annuity Trust in honor of Lawrence M. O’Shaughnessy Peregrine Capital Management The Regis Foundation The Southways Foundation Wells Fargo Insurance Services
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