Nov. 1–2 at 7:00 p.m., Nov. 3 at 2:00 p.m. 23rd St. Armory
Experience the East Coast premiere of The Comet / Poppea with Curtis Opera Theatre. This unique production blends MacArthur-winner George Lewis’ operatic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Comet with Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, presented on a rotating stage that immerses you in both worlds simultaneously. Directed by fellow MacArthur-winner Yuval Sharon and featuring Curtis’ talented singers, this performance promises a captivating visual and sonic journey.
2024/25 Season: Great to Groundbreaking
Tickets from $24 | Full performance calendar: curtis.edu/100 Step into the heart of our centennial celebration as Curtis unveils a season brimming with passion, energy, and greatness.
THE LISTENERS
Music by Missy Mazzoli
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Based on an original story by Jordan Tannahill
Claire Devon
Paul Devon
Ashley Devon
Howard Bard
Kyle Harris
Angela Rose
Dillon
Hortense
Thom
Vince
Danica
Coyote
Sina Emily
Bram
Theresa Alvarez
Mrs. Moreno
Jess
Lee Ann
Offstage Voice Student 1 Student 2
Conductor Director
Choreography
Set Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Projection Design
Sound Design
Hair and Make-up Design
Chorus Master
Dramaturgy
Stage Manager
Nicole Heaston*
Troy Cook
Lindsey Reynolds
Kevin Burdette
Aaron Crouch
Rehanna Thelwell
John Moore
Lucy Schaufer
Joseph Lim*
Daniel Taylor
Diana Newman*
Sydney Donovan
Jessica Beebe
Taylor-Alexis DuPont*
Zachary Altman
Guadalupe Paz*
Alissa Anderson
Amanda Sheriff*
Lauren Cook
John David Miles
Matteo Adams
Michael Miller
Corrado Rovaris
Lileana Blain-Cruz*
Raja Feather Kelly*
Adam Rigg
Kaye Voyce
Yi Zhao*
Hannah Wasileski*
Daniel Neumann*
Amanda Clark
Elizabeth Braden
Cori Ellison
Jennifer Shaw
*Opera Philadelphia debut
Performed in English with English supertitles
Co-commissioned and co-produced with Norwegian National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago Opera Philadelphia’s 2024-2025 Season is brought to you by the Artistry Now Matching Fund and Barbara Augusta Teichert
Academy of Music productions are made possible with support from Judy and Peter Leone and Ms. Lisa D. Kabnick and Mr. John H. McFadden
Major support for The Listeners has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, Stephen A. Block, Robert N. Braun, M.D., Marcus Innovation Fund, and Ashley and Eli Wald By arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.
OPERA PHILADELPHIA STAFF
LEADERSHIP
Anthony Roth Costanzo, General Director & President
Corrado Rovaris, Jack Mulroney Music Director
Dr. Derrell Acon, Vice President of People Operations & Inclusion
Veronica Chapman-Smith, Vice President of Community Initiatives
David Levy, Vice President of Artistic Operations
Gina J. Range, Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Ken Smith, Chief of Staff
Lawrence Brownlee, Artistic Advisor
MUSIC
Michael Eberhard, Director of Casting & Artistic Administration
Sarah Williams, Director of New Works & Creative Producer
Elizabeth Braden, Chorus Master & Music Administrator
Grant Loehnig, Head of Music Staff
J. Robert Loy, Orchestra Librarian & Personnel Coordinator
Laura Jannetta, Marketing & Digital Content Intern
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
Christa Sechler, Education Manager
Alex Graham, Education & Accessibility Coordinator
Abby Weissman, Assistant Manager of Youth and Community Programs
Chloe Lucente, Teaching Artist
Elizabeth Gautsche, Teaching Artist
Valentina Sierra, Lead Teaching Artist
Chabrelle Williams, Community Arts Facilitator
Dr. Lily Kass, Scholar in Residence
Julian Nguyen, T-VOCE Accompanist
Whitney Covalle, T-VOCE Director
Dan Amadie, Backstage Pass Consultant
PEOPLE OPERATIONS & INCLUSION
Catherine Reay, Director of Employee Engagement
SCENE
Daniel Jin Applebaum
Courtney Beck
Cordelia Istel
Gwyneth Muller
FINANCE
Jeremiah Marks, CFO Client Consultant
COUNSEL
Ballard Spahr, LLP, General Counsel
DEAR FRIENDS
You’re at the opera!
I can’t tell you how excited I am that you’re here.
For the past 30 years, I have devoted myself to this art form as a singer and now as a leader, and sometimes in life you have to take a step back and ask yourself, “why?” If I think hard about it, I realize there are probably three reasons.
First, I love how collaborative the final product is. What you’re about to see on stage of course contains music and theater, but there is also art in the set design, fashion in the costumes, technology in the way things work behind the scenes, poetry, history, sociology, philosophy – it’s all there. Second, I think that seeing human stories with the emotional backdrop of incredible music helps create more empathy in us. We can feel someone else’s joy or pain, and we can see ourselves in another character’s journey. Third, and I know this sounds cheesy, I really believe that art can change our lives. It gives meaning, it gives context, and live performance especially is the antidote to so much of the isolation we can feel.
My belief in this art form is why I wanted to make any ticket available for $11 or Pick Your Price, and whether you’re a long-time fan or a first-time newbie, I want you to know that you are the crucial ingredient in every performance. All that goes into making a powerful and masterful work like The Listeners is there so that art can start a dialogue with you and within you. It is my commitment to you to make each experience at Opera Philadelphia unique, exhilarating, and beautiful, and I can’t wait to see you at many more.
Anthony Roth Costanzo General Director & President
Photo by Lisa Pavlova
Photo by Marylene Mey
MISSY MAZZOLI
COMPOSER
Three-time GRAMMY ® nominee Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (NY Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out NY). Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, the New York Philharmonic, eighth blackbird, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, Scottish Opera and many others. In 2023 she was nominated for two GRAMMY Awards, in the categories of “Best Classical Composition” and “Best Classical Compendium.” In 2018, she became, along with Jeanine Tesori, one of the first women to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera and was nominated for her first GRAMMY award in the category of “Best Classical Composition.” From 2018-2021, she was Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from
2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia.
Mazzoli has been praised for her many operatic compositions; her latest opera Lincoln in the Bardo will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera and LA Opera in 2026, and her opera The Listeners will be performed at the Essen Opera in Germany and Lyric Opera of Chicago following the American Premiere at Opera Philadelphia. Her 2016 opera with longtime collaborator librettist Royce Vavrek, Breaking the Waves (commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and Beth Morrison Projects) was called “one of the best 21st-century American operas yet” by Opera News. Breaking the Waves received its European premiere at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival; future performances are planned for Opera Australia and Houston Grand Opera. Mazzoli is also working on a new opera about the opioid crisis, The Galloping
Cure, which will premiere at venues across the world in 2026-2027. In 2016, Missy and composer Ellen Reid founded Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship program for young female, non-binary, and gender nonconforming composers. Mazzoli teaches composition at Bard College and her works are published by G. Schirmer.
missymazzoli.com
Royce Vavrek is a Canadian librettist whose opera Angel’s Bone, with composer Du Yun, was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music. His collaborations include works with Missy Mazzoli (Song from the Uproar, Breaking the Waves, Proving Up, and The Listeners), Mikael Karlsson (Melancholia, Crypto, and So We Will Vanish), David T. Little (Dog Days, Vinkensport, or the Finch Opera, Am I Born, and JFK), Ricky Ian Gordon (27 and The House Without a Christmas Tree), Paola Prestini (The Hubble Cantata, Silent Light, and The Old Man and the Sea), Rachel J. Peters (The Wild Beast of the Bungalow), Luna Pearl Woolf (Jacqueline), Mary Kouyoumdjian (Adoration) and Gregory Spears (O Columbia), as well as a musical with Joshua Schmidt (Midwestern Gothic).
Upcoming projects include an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander with Mikael Karlsson for La Monnaie De Munt; Agnes, with Daníel Bjarnason for Icelandic Opera; Indians on Vacation, an adaptation of Thomas King’s novel, with Ian Cusson, for Edmonton Opera/Against the Grain; Lincoln in the Bardo, after the Booker Prize-winning novel by George Saunders, created with Missy Mazzoli for The Metropolitan Opera; and two operas
ROYCE VAVREK LIBRETTIST
supported by the Canada Council for the Arts: The Cremation of Sam McGee with Matthew Ricketts, and My Family // Cambodia 1975 with Vivian Fung.
Vavrek received the Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, alongside Missy Mazzoli in 2023, as well as the Music Critics Association of North America award for Best New Opera in 2017 for Breaking the Waves
He is an alum of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal (BFA) and NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (MFA) as well as American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program. roycevavrek.com
Photo by Hello Reynisson
THE LISTENERS
SYNOPSIS
A middle-class mother living in a southwestern U.S. suburb notices a “hum,” a high-frequency environmental noise that only a select few people, the “Listeners,” can hear. A community organization quickly forms to solve the mystery of the hum, but when a de facto leader suggests a spiritual significance the meetings become increasingly cult-like, ritualized experiences, it becomes clear that this community of “Listeners” is on a collision course of destruction.
The Listeners examines the lengths to which we, as Americans, are willing to go in order to find a sense of place and purpose, and the way in which charismatic leaders can exploit these needs to their own ends. An enduring part of our American identity is a sense of deserved and inevitable success and happiness. When this imagined future collides with the realities and struggles of everyday life, dazzling and predatory leaders offering a “quick fix” can easily prey on the vulnerabilities of the lonely and lost.
The runtime of The Listeners is approximately 2 hours and 23 minutes including one 20-minute intermission.
Photo by Erik Berg for
THE CULT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM AS TOLD THROUGH AN AMERICAN OPERA
BY ALEXANDRA SVOKOS
Photos by Erik Berg for The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
"Everybody is looking for something. Everybody wants to belong. And I think that these groups provide a really intoxicating membership and a belonging. They satisfy this human need for connection."
Royce Vavrek, librettist
What does it mean to be an American opera? We can sing "hello!" along with the miners of Puccini's Fanciulla del West and marvel at an early, grungy New Orleans in your choice of Manon, but it's still a new feeling to be an American audience member watching an American opera set in contemporary America. What stories represent us as a culture, this blended, evolving, self-built society? And what does it mean when what we see in our onstage reflection is a cult?
The Listeners, composer Missy Mazzoli says, is “about the power of charismatic leaders to manipulate vulnerable people. Howard, the cult leader, is this very charismatic man offering easy solutions to complicated problems.” Claire, our lead character, hears a “hum.” Seeking answers and validation, she meets Howard. As we saw in documentaries like Wild Wild Country and The Vow, most people don't join cults “because they wanted to participate in nefarious schemes” and face abuse, says director Lileana Blain-Cruz. Rather, “they were looking to make their lives better.”
Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek collaborated with writer Jordan Tannahill to create this original story. They wanted to tell a modern tale about curdling power and were drawn to stories of cults, and The Listeners' plot “was an idea that wouldn't let us go,” Vavrek says. The creators hope to build an opera that feels like a suspenseful documentary you'd binge, from familiar vernacular down to video confessionals.
When people feel powerless, burdened and lonely and someone makes them feel heard and offers to stick up for them, like Howard does, there's an obvious enticement – and Mazzoli wants us to feel that pull. Four years after the enforced isolation of the pandemic, we're facing a national loneliness epidemic so bad the surgeon general is urging us to just join a book club already instead of staying home alone binging Manson documentaries. Who wouldn't want to join “an automatic community that loves you unconditionally,” as Mazzoli puts it?
“We're still feeling disconnected from our fellow community members, and there's a real danger in a charismatic leader pretending to offer a kind of connective tissue when really it's creating more divisiveness,” Blain-Cruz says. Maybe that charismatic leader will build bridges and enact changes positive for all society. Or maybe that leader will brag about assaulting women, tell people to drink bleach when crisis strikes, and direct cult members under their sway to attack the seat of government.
Set in the American West where, per Blain-Cruz, intimacy and vastness interlace, The Listeners is not an explicitly political or feminist opera, Mazzoli says. But growing up as a woman in Pennsylvania and existing in the context of the politics of the country in which she lives “infects and affects the work,” the composer explains. The Listeners premiered in Norway in 2022, and returning to it this fall, Mazzoli says, there “is a pretty clear parallel to what is happening right now.”
That's because The Listeners tells the story of a man who abuses his charm, but it also tells the story of a woman who has been told to wait her turn, swallow her ambition and tread a “line of acceptable behavior [that] is razor thin,” as Mazzoli puts it. This summer in the United States, we saw a radical plot-twist when President Joe Biden stepped away from the campaign and Kamala Harris, the first female, Black and Asian American vice president and now the second woman to be a major party's presidential nominee, stepped into the ring to face Donald Trump.
Mazzoli “has devoted so much of her writing to telling stories of women in impossible situations,” librettist Vavrek says, and The Listeners carries that torch. “We're still living in a time when there's not a lot of imagination happening when we think about what a woman can do,” Mazzoli says, and she sees Claire's arc as a response to that lack of imagination and stifling of women's potential.
Like a hungry coyote in the desert, a woman boxed in can curl up and give in—or she can find a way to persist in a pressure-cooker environment where, Blain-Cruz says, “the beauty and the terror coexist.”
Alexandra Svokos, MBA, is the senior digital editor of the financial magazine Kiplinger. She covered the 2016 election for Elite Daily and was the senior editor at ABC News’ site during the 2020 election.
THE HUM: A MARKEDLY REAL ENIGMA
BY DR JACOB MALLINSON BIRD
Imagine you’re stepping into bed and as you sink into your pillow you notice a sound. At first, it seems like a car revving outside, so you close the window: but the noise persists. Perhaps it’s the AC, the faucet, the TV, the refrigerator, the power grid? All turned off, the noise is somehow louder. Imagine, worse still, that when you tell someone, they don’t believe you. This is the painful reality for hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who hear the hum.
The hum is an auditory phenomenon experienced everywhere from Bristol, United Kingdom, to Taos, New Mexico, but its cause remains largely unknown. Some describe the sound as a car racing toward them but never arriving; for others it’s more like the gurgling of an ultrasound machine. What all share, however, is the inescapability of the sound and the deleterious effects it has on their daily lives. Whether quitting jobs because of the stress or moving home in a bid to escape the clamor, what’s certain is the hum has very real effects.
Conspiracy theories as to the cause of the hum abound—5G towers, military subaudible weaponry, Doomsday prophecies—but Glen MacPherson, creator of The World Hum Map, a website devoted to learning more about the hum, believes the answer is more mundane. MacPherson holds that the hum is an internally generated auditory phenomenon, similar but not equivalent to conditions like tinnitus; you can turn off as many appliances as you like, but the hum drones on inside you. However, without the means to test his hypothesis more rigorously, MacPherson’s theory remains just one of many in a fascinating slew of possibilities.
Even with more evidence to support the internally generated theory, it’s debatable as to whether listeners would be satisfied. MacPherson describes people who hear the hum as feeling special, unique in witnessing the phenomenon. Mystery is more interesting than fact, and the desire to tend toward the fantastical means retaining a sense of magic in what might otherwise be a humdrum life.
Living in mystery, listeners are forever battling against the disbelief of their peers. One possible reason for this disbelief is that the hum is often experienced by middle-aged women, a demographic historically marginalized by the medical community: what if the hum sits in a similar place to illnesses like endometriosis, extremely real for those who suffer it but ignored by the institutions designed to help?
Another is the age-old belief that sound cannot harm us. In what Jonathan Sterne names the audio-visual litany, sounds are understood to be ephemeral, diaphanous, unable to cause lasting damage in the way that more physical forms of harm can. But with sonic forms of torture rife in detention camps across the world, we’d do well to take seriously the harm that sound can cause, mentally and physically.
The hum is an enigma, but one that is markedly real. Amidst the noise of theories surrounding the hum, it is easy to see why, as with The Listeners’ Claire, people could latch onto the charisma and control of someone with answers.
Dr Jacob Mallinson Bird is Lecturer in Music at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His first book, on drag lip-sync performance, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025.
ARTISTS
MATTEO ADAMS he/him
Student 1
Beaumont, TX
Recent: Parpignol, La bohème, Opera Philadelphia. Arturo (cover), Lucia di Lammermoor, St Petersburg Opera, Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Queens Summer Vocal Institute
Next: Geppetto, Pinocchio, St. Petersburg Opera
ALISSA ANDERSON she/her
Mrs. Moreno
San Antonio, TX
Recent: Marquise de Berkenfield, La fille du Regiment, Opera Company of Middlebury; Soloist, Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Highland Park Presbyterian; Erda, Siegfried, Virginia Opera
Next: Old Lady, Candide, South Florida Symphony; Soloist, La Damoiselle élue, Alabama Symphony; Lola Allen, Loving v. Virginia, Virginia Opera
ZACHARY ALTMAN he/him
Bram Philadelphia, PA
Recent: Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malmö Opera; Leporello, Don Giovanni, Scottish Opera; Dreieinigkeitsmoses, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Komische Oper Berlin
Next: Nekrotzar, Le Grand Macabre, Teatro Massimo di Palermo
JESSICA BEEBE she/her
Sina
Landenberg, PA
Recent: Luna, The Wake World, Opera Philadelphia, Traveler/Ice Demon, Atlas, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dido, Dido and Aeneas, Choral Arts Philadelphia
Next: Soprano Soloist, Messiah, Asheville Symphony and Tallahassee Symphony
LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ she/her
Director
New York, NY
Underwritten by Linda and David Glickstein
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Director, El Niño, Metropolitan Opera; Director, Stranger Love, LA Philharmonic; Director, White Girl in Danger, Vineyard Theatre
Next: Director, Purple Rain, State Theater, Minneapolis
ARTISTS
ELIZABETH BRADEN she/her
Chorus Master
Easton, PA
Recent: Chorus Master, Madame Butterfly, Opera Philadelphia; Conductor, Penn Chorale, University of Pennsylvania; Director of Music, Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia
Next: Chorus Master, The Anonymous Lover, Opera Philadelphia
KEVIN BURDETTE he/him
Howard Bard
Knoxville, TN
Underwritten by Mariko Ikehara & Jeffrey Cunard and Jane Ginsburg & George Spera
Recent: Bartolo, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Seattle Opera; Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Atlanta Opera; Papinou, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Dallas Opera
Next: Death, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, New World Symphony
AMANDA CLARK she/her
Wig Designer
Highlands Ranch, CO
Recent: Hair and Makeup Designer, Opera Philadelphia, Madame Butterfly, Hair and Makeup Designer, Opera Maine, La cenerentola, Associate Hair and Makeup Designer, National Tour, Les Misérables
Next: Hair and Makeup Designer, Opera Philadelphia, Don Giovanni
LAUREN COOK she/her
Lee Ann
Fort Worth, TX
Recent: Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Virginia Opera. Stéphano, Roméo et Juliette, Arizona Opera. Featured Soloist, The Dream, Philadelphia Ballet
Next: Soloist, Recital: Femme Fatale, TBA
TROY COOK he/him
Paul Devon
Eminence, KY
Underwritten by Carolyn Horn Seidle
Recent: Tonio, Pagliacci, Glimmerglass Festival, Athanaël, Thaïs, Utah Opera, Germont, La traviata, Florida Grand Opera
Next: Bernard Cohen, Loving v. Virginia, Virginia Opera
ARTISTS
AARON CROUCH he/his
Kyle Harris
Bowie, MD
Recent: Roderigo, Otello, National Symphony Orchestra, Count Almaviva, Il
barbiere di Siviglia, Virginia Opera, The Son, Blue, Washington National Opera
Next: Tenor Soloist, Santa Fe Symphony, Handel's Messiah
SYDNEY DONOVAN she/her
Coyote
Cherry Hill, NJ
Recent: Semele Goddess, Dancer, Opera Philadelphia, Choreographer+
Performer, TRINE witch, OmenThrice Dance Company, Collaborator, Dancer in The Other Shore, Zoe | Juniper
Next: Choreographer + Dancer, Jack and Jill, Paul Matteson/Sydney Donovan
TAYLOR-ALEXIS DUPONT she/her
Emily
Orlando, FL
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Flora, La traviata, Cincinnati Opera, Hannah, Ruinous Gods, Spoleto Festival USA, Celeste, Songbird, Washington National Opera
Next: Phoebe, The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, North Carolina Opera, Treemonisha, Opera Orlando, Isabella, L'italiana in Algeri, Hawaii Opera Theatre
NICOLE HEASTON she/her
Claire Devon
Chicago, IL
Underwritten by Katherine and John Karamatsoukas
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Thaïs, Thaïs, Utah Opera, Alice Ford, Falstaff, Houston Grand Opera, Vanessa, Vanessa, Spoleto Festival USA
Next: Armida, Rinaldo, Detroit Opera
RAJA FEATHER KELLY he/him
Choreographer
Fort Hood, TX
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Conceiver/Writer/Director, Absolute future, NYU Skirball, Writer, the fires, Soho Rep, Choreographer, Lempicka, Broadway
Next: Choreographer, Teeth, New World Stages
ARTISTS
JOSEPH LIM he/him
Thom
Seoul, South Korea
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Le Dancaïre, Carmen, Metropolitan Opera, Silvio, Pagliacci, Nashville Opera, Tiger/Rooster, The Big Swim, Houston Grand Opera
Next: Thom, The Listeners, Lyric Opera of Chicago
MICHAEL MILLER he/him
Student 2
Meadville, PA
Recent: King Melchior, Christmas in July (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Opera Philadelphia; Custom-House Officer, La bohème, Opera Philadelphia; Masetto, Don Giovanni, Florida Grand Opera
Next: Chorus, Don Giovanni, Opera Philadelphia
JOHN MOORE he/his
Dillon
Milford (Okoboji), IA
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Steve Jobs, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, San Francisco Opera; Leon Klinghoffer, The Death of Klinghoffer, Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Rasheed, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Seattle Opera
Next: Steve Jobs, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Washington National Opera
DIANA NEWMAN she/her
Danica
Malibu, CA
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Tovah, Émigré, New York Philharmonic; Soloist, Hisaishi Conducts Hisaishi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Woglinde, Götterdämmerung, Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
Next: First Lady, Die Zauberflöte, Atlanta Opera
GUADALUPE PAZ she/her
Theresa Alvarez
San Diego, CA
Recent: Frida, El último sueño de Frida y Diego, San Diego Opera; La Mujer, El Milagro del Recuerdo, San Diego Opera; Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería; Paula, Florencia en el Amazonas, San Jose Opera
Next: El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla with Orquesta Sinfonica de Porto Alegre
ARTISTS
LINDSEY REYNOLDS she/her
Ashley Devon
New Orleans, LA
Underwritten by Judith Durkin Freyer and Charles Freyer
Recent: Barena, Jenůfa, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Celestial Voice, Don Carlos, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Soprano Soloist, Poulenc's Stabat Mater, Grant Park, Adina, L'elisir l'amore, New Orleans Opera, Amine, Morgiane, ou Le sultan d’Ispahan, Opera Creole & Opera Lafayette (World Premiere)
Recent: Conductor, Le nozze di Figaro, Deutsche Oper Berlin; Conductor, La traviata, Santa Fe Opera; Conductor, Simon Boccanegra, Opera Philadelphia
Next: Conductor, Don Giovanni, Opera Philadelphia
LUCY SCHAUFER she/her
Hortense
Carpentersville, IL
Recent: Helena, Marx in London! Scottish Opera (UK Premiere), Woman III, The Blue Woman, Royal Opera House (World Premiere), Cecilia March, Little Women, Opera Holland Park (UK Premiere)
Next: Marcellina, Le nozze di Figaro, Santa Fe Opera
AMANDA SHERIFF she/her
Jess
Houston, TX
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: L’eternita/Satirino, La Calisto, The Glimmerglass Festival; Musetta, La bohème, Opera Montana; Contessa Ceprano, Rigoletto, Atlanta Opera
Next: Papagena, Die Zauberflöte, Atlanta Opera
DANIEL TAYLOR he/him
Vince
Lansdale, PA
Recent: Breath in a Ram's Horn (Daniel Asia), Network for New Music, Sin-Eater (David T. Little), The Crossing, Lucio, Otello (Rossini), Opera Philadelphia
Next: Concert with Variant Six and Brooklyn Art Song Society
ARTISTS
REHANNA THELWELL she/her
Angela Rose
Avenel, NJ
Recent: Julia, Two Corners (World Premiere), Finger Lakes Opera; Forester's Wife/Owl, The Cunning Little Vixen, Detroit Opera; Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Atlanta Opera
Next: Kendra Smith, The Cook Off (World Premiere), Nashville Opera
HANNAH WASILESKI she/her
Projections Designer
Berlin, Germany
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Projection Designer, El Niño, Metropolitan Opera; Stranger Love, LA Philharmonic; The Skin of Our Teeth, Lincoln Center Theater
Next: Projection Designer, Lincoln in the Bardo, LA Opera & Metropolitan Opera
YI ZHAO he/him
Lighting Designer
Beijing, China
Opera Philadelphia debut
Recent: Lighting Designer, El Niño, Metropolitan Opera; Stranger Love, LA Philharmonic; The Skin of Our Teeth, Lincoln Center Theater
Next: Lighting Designer, Lincoln in the Bardo, LA Opera & Metropolitan Opera
COVERS
Claire Devon Jazmine Saunders
Paul Devon/Dillon Daniel Rich
Ashley Devon Amanda Sheriff
Kyle Harris/Vince Ethan Burck
Howard Bard Zachary Altman
Angela Rose Taylor-Alexis DuPont
Hortense Alissa Anderson
Thom Kevin Godínez
Danica Jessica Beebe
Sina Christine Nass
Emily Katilyn Tierney
Bram Brenton Mattox-Scott
Ms. Moreno Lucy Schaufer
Theresa Alvarez Lauren Cook
Jess Jessica Moreno
Lee Ann Marissa Chalker
CHORUS
SOPRANO
Natalie Esler
Julie-Ann Green
Valerie Haber
Jessica Moreno
Jorie Moss
Jessica Mary Murphy
Christine Nass
Aimee Pilgermayer
Amy Spencer
ALTO
Tanisha L. Anderson
Marissa Chalker
Joanna Gates
Megan McFadden
Meghan McGinty
Maren Montalbano
Natasha Nelson
Ellen Grace Peters
Kaitlyn Tierney
TENOR
Matteo Adams
Gabriel Anthony-Muhammad
Sang B. Cho
Corey Don
Colin Doyle
Toffer Mihalka
Andrew Skitko
George Somerville
Steve Williamson
BASS
Jeff Chapman
Lucas DeJesus
Matthew Fisher
Loren Greer
James Osby Gwathney, Jr.
Brenton Mattox-Scott
John David Miles
Michael Miller
Frank Mitchell
Last season, more than 400 supporters participated in the Artistry Now Matching Fund raising $2.5 million, which was matched by Barbara Augusta Teichert.
Thank you!
Barbara Teichert and composer David Herzberg. Photo by Sofia Negron.
VIOLIN 1
Max Tan, concertmaster
Natasha Colkett, assistant concertmaster
Meichen Liao-Barnes
Donna Grantham
Elizabeth Kaderabek
Gared Crawford
Mary Loftus
Lisa Vaupel
Guillaume Combet
Maria Im
Rebecca Ansel
VIOLIN 2
Tess Varley, principal
Luigi Mazzocchi
Maya Shiraishi
Paul Reiser
Sarah DuBois
Yu-Hui Tamae Lee
Emily Barkakati
Catherine Kei Fukuda
Yoori Kim Williams
VIOLA
Jonathan Kim, principal
Yoshihiko Nakano
Elizabeth Jaffe
Caleb Paxton
Elias Goldstein
Hannah Nicholas
Steven Heitlinger
ORCHESTRA
CELLO
Branson Yeast, principal
Vivian Barton Dozor, assistant principal
David Moulton
Jennie Lorenzo
Brooke Beazley
Noelle Casella Grand
BASS
Daniel McDougall, principal
Anne Peterson
Stephen Groat
Mary Javian
FLUTE
Frances Tate, principal
Kim Trolier, piccolo
OBOE
Geoffrey Deemer, principal
Oliver Talukder
CLARINET
Doris Hall-Gulati, principal
Allison Herz, bass clarinet
BASSOON
Emeline Chong, principal
Zach Feingold, contrabassoon
HORN
John David Smith, principal
Emerson Miller
Karen Schubert
Ryan Stewart
TRUMPET
Brian Kuszyk, principal
Steve Heitzer
TROMBONE
Robert Gale, principal
Matthew Moran
TUBA
Paul Erion, principal
PERCUSSION
Ralph Sorrentino, principal
Chris Hanning
HARP
Rong Tan, principal
PIANO
Michael Lewis
ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION STAFF
Associate Director ...................................................................................... Mikhaela Mahony*
Projection Programmer .................................................. Larry Barnes (10th Floor Productions)
Projection Technician ......................................................Colin J. Sass (10th Floor Productions)
Supernumeraries: Lexi Mignogna, Ginger Moore, Kristerpher Henderson, Sam Oberle, Jed Krivisky, Scott Ross, Timothy Gardocki, Madison Claus
*Opera Philadelphia debut
Opera Philadelphia thanks the following labor organizations whose members, artists, craftsmen, and craftswomen greatly contribute to our performances:
American Federation of Musicians, Local 77 is the collective bargaining agent for Opera Philadelphia Orchestra musicians.
American Guild of Musical Artists / The American Guild of Musical Artists, the union of professional singers, dancers, and production personnel in opera, ballet, and concert, affiliated with the AFL-CIO, represents the Artists and Staging Staff for all purposes of collective bargaining.
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees / Local 8
Theatrical Wardrobe Union / Local 799, I.A.T.S.E.
United Scenic Artists / Local 829, I.A.T.S.E.
Box Office and Front of House Employees Union / Local B29, I.A.T.S.E.
Highway Truck Drivers and Helpers / Local 107, Teamsters
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With deep gratitude, we recognize the leading generosity of those who make it possible for Opera Philadelphia to bring great opera to so many people: Opera Philadelphia’s Special Innovation Initiative Underwritten by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy
Steven K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. and Colleen Wyse
Judy and Peter Leone
Barbara Augusta Teichert
Ira Brind and Stacey Spector
Judith Durkin Freyer and Charles C. Freyer
Katherine and John Karamatsoukas
With additional support from Donald Schwarz and Andrew Gelber, members of Opera Philadelphia’s Board of Directors, and individual donors
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. | Board Chair
Anthony Roth Costanzo* | President
Willo Carey | Vice Chair
Charles C. Freyer | Vice Chair
Thomas Mahoney | Treasurer
Alexander Hankin | Secretary
MEMBERS
Ira Brind
Lawrence Brownlee
Willo Carey
Katherine Christiano
William Dunbar
David Ferguson
Charles C. Freyer
Deena Gu
Alexander Hankin
John Karamatsoukas
Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A.
Beverly Lange, M.D.
Peter Leone, Immediate Past Chairman
Thomas Mahoney
Sarah Marshall
Taneise S. Marshall
Agnes Mulroney
Colleen O'Riordan
Bob Schena
Carolyn Horn Seidle
Barbara Augusta Teichert
Kathleen Weir
Yueyi (Kelly) Zhou
HONORARY MEMBERS
Dennis Alter
H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest†
Stephen A. Madva, Esq., Chairman Emeritus
Alan B. Miller
Alice W. Strine, Esq.
Charlotte Watts
† Deceased
* Ex officio
THANK YOU
Opera Philadelphia expresses our deepest gratitude to the individuals and institutions whose support allows us to bring you The Listeners.
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Judy and Peter Leone
Opera Philadelphia’s Special Innovation Initiative Underwritten by E.A. Michelson
Philanthropy
Artistry Now Matching Fund and Barbara Augusta Teichert
Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. and Colleen Wyse
Mellon Foundation
Jean and Gene Stark
The William Penn Foundation
Judith Durkin Freyer and Charles C. Freyer
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Ms. Lisa D. Kabnick and Mr. John H. McFadden
Mrs. John P. Mulroney
Carolyn Horn Seidle
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Wyncote Foundation
Mr. John R. Alchin and Mr. Hal Marryatt
Anonymous
Mrs. Sandra K. Baldino
Ira Brind and Stacey Spector
The Waterman Trust at the Recommendation of David Haas
Katherine and John Karamatsoukas
Sarah and Brad Marshall
Mr. Robert J. Schena
Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation
CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL
Willo Carey and Peter A. Benoliel
Katherine and Andrew Christiano
Ms. Joan DeJean†
Mrs. Marjorie E. Garwig†
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Huff
Christian Humann Foundation
Independence Foundation
Donald and Gay Kimelman
Joel and Sharon Koppelman
The H.F. Lenfest Fund
Ms. Jacqueline B. Mars
PA Dept. of Community and Economic Development
The Presser Foundation
Dr. Renée Rollin
Ellen Steiner
Charlotte Watts
Paul M. Angell Foundation
Cunningham Piano Company
Linda and David Glickstein
Ms. Deena Gu Laties, in honor of Willo Carey
Hamilton Family Charitable Trust
Mark and Helene Hankin Family
Ms. Caroline J. Mackenzie Kennedy
Mrs. Sheila Kessler
Ms. Maria Maccecchini
National Endowment for the Arts
Eugene Garfield Foundation
OPERA America
Estate of Robert Schoenberg
Michael L. Spolan
GENERAL DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL
Platinum Patron
Myron and Sheila S. Bassman
Connelly Foundation
Dr. Frank F. Furstenberg
Bonnie and Lon Greenberg
Independence Blue Cross
Ro and Martin King
Mr. Thomas Mahoney
Marcus Innovation Fund
Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joe Neubauer
David and Susan Rattner
Katie Adams Schaeffer and Tony Schaeffer
Donald Schwarz and Andrew Gelber
Ashley and Eli Wald
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Wechsler
Wells Fargo Private Bank
Diamond Patron
Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Lorraine Alexander†
Anonymous
Sylvia Lanka-Barone and William Barone
Mr. Jeffrey P. Cunard and Ms. Mariko Ikehara
Mark and Peggy Curchack
Carol S. Eicher
Drs. Bruce and Toby Eisenstein
Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund for New Opera
Jane Ginsburg and George Spera
Feather O. Houstoun
Estate of Joel Jensen
Jeffrey R. Jowett
In memory of Joseph G. Leone
The Samuel P. Mandell Foundation
The McLean Contributionship
Dr. Stanley Muravchick and Ms. Arlene Olson
PECO
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Dr. Joel and Mrs. Bobbie Porter
Alice and Walter Strine, Esqs.
Ethel Benson Wister
PATRON PROGRAM
Gold Patron
Anonymous
Stephen A. Block
Robert N. Braun, M.D.
Mr. James P. Macelderry† and Ms. Marilyn S. Fishman
Susan and Graham McDonald
Remmel Foundation
Seán and Colleen O'Riordan
Kathleen and Nicholas Weir
Silver Patron
Anonymous (2)
Robert and Julie Jensen Bryan
Georgette Ciukurescu
Ady L. Djerassi, M.D., and Robert Golub, M.D.
William and Fay Dunbar
David M. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Deborah Glass, in memory of Leonard Mellman
Gray Charitable Trust
Thomas S. Heckman and Mary Jo Ashenfelter
Mr. Kenneth Klothen and Ms. Eve Biskind
Anne Silvers Lee and Wynn Lee
The Leone Family
Carol and Howard Lidz
Liddy Lindsay
Susan M. Long and Andrew J. Szabo
Monica Taylor Lotty and Brendan Lotty
Dr. and Mrs. Michael B. Love
Tom and Jody O'Rourke
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rollins
Drs. Richard and Rhonda Soricelli
Mr. Jonathan H. Sprogell and Ms. Kathryn Taylor
Jeralyn Svanda
Truist
Robert L. Turner
Universal Health Services
Victory Foundation
Leslie Whipkey
Laura A. Williamson Charitable Fund
Ms. Linda Wingate and Dr. William Liberi
Mrs. Kelly Zhou and Dr. Brett Frankel
Karen A. Zurlo Ph.D.
Bronze+ Patron
Joan and Frederick Cohen
Laura Drake
Dr. Garrett FitzGerald
Joan and William Goldstein
Ms. Rhoda K. Herrold
Ms. Lisa R. Jacobs
William Lake Leonard, Esq.
Philip E. Lian and Joan L. Mueller
Helen E. Pettit
Dr. Leah Whipple
Bronze Patron
Lydia Alvarez, in memory of Isabelle Ferguson
Anonymous (5)
Ms. Susan Asplundh
Eugene and Virginia Beier
Elaine Woo Camarda and A. Morris Williams, Jr.
James Cohen
Mr. Stephen Cohen and Mr. John McNett
Mr. Mark Cornish
Tobey and Mark Dichter
Barbara Donnelly Bentivoglio
Mr. Arthur F. Ferguson
Ms. Juliet J. Goodfriend and Dr. Marc R. Moreau
Stuart A. Schwartz and Sheila Jamison-Schwartz
Corey Kinger
Camille Dickinson LaBarre
Charles B. Landreth
Mr. and Mrs. David Levy
Matthew Ligman
The Marshall's Art Endowment
Dwight and Christina McCawley
Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Nishikawa
Ms. Katherine L. Niven
Kate Olver and Jeremy Young
Dr. Elida Rouby
Joyce Seewald Sando
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis E. Sawyer
The Rev. Richard L. Ullman
Mark Luis Villamar and Esther Milsted
Dr. R.J. Wallner
Peter J. Wender
Carol Westfall
Ms. Ana-Maria V. Zaugg and Mr. David W. Anstice
Mr. Robert Zimet
MEMBERSHIP
Mr. George J. Ahern
Sarah Alderfer
Mr. and Mrs. James Alexandre
Joseph T. Anderer and Virginia Benz
Anonymous
Ellen Berelson and Lawrence Franks
Mrs. Joanne Berwind
Carrie and J. Bradley Boericke
Thomas Broadt
Nicholas Alexander Brown
Jim & Maddy Carlson
Bruce Chemel
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation
Thomas Collins
Jeffrey Cooper
Robert Cottone
David Craig and Jackie Renner
Robert and Florence Dolceamore
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Vivian Barton Dozor
Dr. Andrew F. Drake
Dr. Jerome and Ms. Judy Draper
Robert and Monica Driver
Mr. and Ms. Robert S. Duplessis
Barbara Eberlein and Jerry Wind
John Erickson and Harry Zaleznik
James R. Fairburn
Mary Fallon, in loving memory of Steven Wayne Parr
Thomas Faracco
Andrew Franzone
Jim and Kay Gately
Mr. Andrew R. Gelber in memory of Sylvia Gelber
George Graham
Dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Greenwood and Ms. Marilyn Greenwood
Michelle and Fred Harde
David and Ann Harrison, Esqs.
Frederic Harwood
Mr. Charles Head, Jr. and Mr. John Faggotti
Eileen Kennedy and Robert Heim
Ms. Susan Henry
Drs. Christina L. and Richard J. Herring
Laura Jacobson
Drs. Jason Karlawish and John Bruza
Ms. Deborah Kostianovsky, in memory of Jorge Kostianovsky
Ms. Laura LaRosa
Robert and Elizabeth Legnini
Mr. Joseph J. Leube, Jr.
Murray and Lonnie Levin
Fran Levy and Leon L. Levy
Mr. William A. Loeb
Ruth Marcon
Mr. John Mastrobattista and Ms. Madeline Leone
Drs. Joseph and Jane McGowan
Dr. Judy Catherine Miner
Mr. Benjamin F. Minick
Steven Z. Mitchell
Maris A. Ogg and Robert Smith
W. Larz Pearson and Rick Trevino
Patricia Perfect
The Philadelphia Contributionship
Shelly Power
Merle Raab
Gina J. Range
Mrs. Louise H. Reed
Bill Robling and Deborah R. Kravetz
Ms. Nancy R. Roncetti
Eileen Rosenau
Anne Faulkner Schoemaker
Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Scott
Paul and Susan Shaman
Janet Wilson Smith
Kobie Smith
Marion and Richard Taxin
Laurie Wagman
Bond Wann
Robert Washburn, Esq. and Judith Drasin, Esq.
Arnold Weiss
Dr. Dilys V. Winegrad
Tom Woodward
Janis† and Robert Ackerman
Anonymous
Jean W. Arnold
Marilyn P. Asplundh
Naomi Balzer Haas
Mrs. Valerie Baselice
Frances and Michael Baylson
Karen Bedrosian-Richardson
Drs. Deidre and Michael Blank
Dr. Howard and Mrs. Tova Brooks
Mr. Leo M. Carey and Ms. Sonya D. Mouzon
Vistula Chapman-Smith
Ms. Ilene Chester
Peter Cline
Jonathan Conant
Ann Csink
Paul DeSanctis
Romulo Diaz and Dennis Bann
Elise Drake
Mikael Eliasen
Ms. Anne C. Ewers
Amy Finkelstein
Barry Fisch
Ms. Lois Fried
Dennis Gallagher
Linda Dubin Garfield
Leila Christine Grad, M.D.
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Mrs. Margaret S. Griffin and Mr. Scott Sillars
Cheryl Gunter and Paul Rabe
Tom Harder
Lee M. Huber
Mr. Wallace Hussong
Dr. and Mrs. William Jantsch
Ms. Lisa Kahn
Alan Karr
Richard and Grace Karschner
Dr. Richard B. Kent
Jo Ann Klein
Beste Kuru
Laura A. Lane and David R. DeVoe
Dr. Thomas S. Lin
Janice Longer
Sarah Lutman and Robert Rudolph
Mr. Robert J. McShea, Jr. and Mr. Bill Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Munson
Michael Presser
Ms. Jane Rath
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Redgrave
Alice Reyes
Dr. Keith M. Robinson
Robert Rohde
Ms. Willa Rosenbloom
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Ross
Jeanne Ruddy and Victor F. Keen
Katherine Sachs
Mr. Walter Schlosser Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Corey R. Smith
Mary Sproat
Mr. Daniel Szyld and Ms. Kathleen Ross
Rosemary and Umit Turunc
Marta Varela
Peggy Wachs
Kenneth and Susan Weiss
Margaret Wellert
Scott Wilds and Martin Bodtmann
Stephen Zeller
List as of September 5, 2024
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Media Copy
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Universal Health Services
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Anonymous (12)
Lorraine and Ben† Alexander
Eleanor M. Allen†
Mary Jo Ashenfelter and Thomas S. Heckman
Eileen Baird†
Mr. Kenneth H. Barr
Myron and Sheila S. Bassman
Mr.† and Mrs. Robert Bergen
Ms. Jane A. Berryman
Dr. Claire Boasi
Dr. Rita B. Bocher
Mr. Michael Bolton
Mrs. Sheila Buckley
Constance G. Burton†
Ms. Willo Carey
Dr. and Mrs. Peter Cassalia†
Dr. Thomas A. Childers and Dr. John B. Hall
Dr. Maria Elisa Ciavarelli†
Miss Lucy Clemens
Joan and Frederick Cohen
Dianne and Don Cooney
Mr.† and Mrs. Arthur Covello
Ms. Ginny L. Coyle
Mr. W. Kenneth Cressman and Mr. Lloyd Christy†
Ms. Joan DeJean†
Ms. Virginia Del Sordo†
Robert and Monica Driver
Mrs. Antoinette DuBiel
Dr. Bruce Eisenstein
Eddie and Rachel Eitches
Mr. James Fairburn
Mr. and Mrs.† Joseph P. Fanelli, Jr.
Ms. Joanne D. Fidler†
Susan and Bill Firestone
Aron and Joan Fisher
Ms. Harriet Forman†
Judith Durkin Freyer and Charles C. Freyer
Mr. Timothy V. Gardocki
Linda Dubin Garfield
Sylvia Green†
Dr. Mark H. Haller†
Mrs. Dorrance H. Hamilton†
Gail Hauptfuhrer
Mr. Charles Head, Jr. and Mr. John Faggotti
Stephen T. Janick
Karl Janowitz
Jeffrey R. Jowett
Mrs. Sheila Kessler
Gabrielle & Ernest Kimmel
Mr. Michael Knight
Dr. Beverly Lange
Mr. Tom Laporta
Gabriele Lee†
Anne Silvers Lee and Wynn Lee
John T. Lehman
Marguerite and Gerry† Lenfest
Mrs. Renee T. Levin†
Karen† and Michael Lewis
Carol and Howard Lidz
Mr. William A. Loeb
Sonja E. Lopatynskyj†
Mr. Larry Thomas Mahoney
Dwight and Christina McCawley
Drs. Joseph and Jane McGowan
Eugene C. Menegon†
Mrs. Lois Meyers
Mrs. Ellen Cole Miller†
Mr. Siddhartha Misra
Mrs. Naomi Montgomery†
Constance C. Moore
Mgsr. Felix M. O'Neill†
Helen E. Pettit
Mr. William Reily†
David Rhody
Dr. Scott F. Richard
Mr. Laurence T. Robbins†
Dr. Renée Rollin
Jeffrey and Kendell Saunders
Robert Schoenberg†
Carolyn Horn Seidle
Mr. Jonathan Sprogell and
Ms. Kathryn Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Steelman†
Mrs. Alise (Lee) Steinberg†
Ellen Steiner
Mr. Kenneth R. Swimm
Mr. Andrew J. Szabo
Mr. Victor Tees
Mr. Michael Toklish
Christina M. Valente, Esq.
Charlotte Watts
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Wechsler
Esther C. Weil†
George P. White†
Drs. Anne and Jim† Williamson
Richard and Kelley Wolfington
Ms. Karen A. Zurlo Ph. D.
† Deceased
List as of September 5, 2024
Sinéad Campell Wallace as Leonore in Fidelio photo by Matthew Karas
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