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PROGRAM INFORMATION

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Synopsis and Running

Time

4 Opera Philadelphia Board of Directors

5 Welcome from Opera Philadelphia’s General Director

12 Artistic Directors’ Notes

18 Opera Philadelphia Leadership Support and

Svadba-Wedding Cast

Major Gifts 13 Composer’s Note and Bio

20 FringeArts Board and 14 Artists

Staff 16 Q&A with Dennis Scholl 23 Opera Philadelphia

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Daniel K. Meyer, M.D., Chairman David B. Devan*, President Frederick P. Huff, Vice Chair Joel M. Koppelman, Vice Chair Alice Strine, Esq., Vice Chair Scott F. Richard, Secretary Thomas Mahoney, Treasurer Stephen A. Madva, Esq., Chairman Emeritus

Benjamin Alexander

Gabriele Lee

Alice Strine, Esq.

Sandra Baldino

Peter Leone

Kenneth R. Swimm

F. Joshua Barnett, M.D., J.D.

Stephen A. Madva, Esq.

Maria Trafton

Willo Carey

Thomas Mahoney

Charlotte Watts

Nicholas E. Chimicles, Esq.

Daniel K. Meyer, M.D.

Donna Wechsler

Mark Hankin

Agnes Mulroney

Frederick P. Huff

Scott F. Richard

Joel M. Koppelman

Harold Rosenbluth

Honorary Members

David Kutch

Stephen G. Somkuti, M.D.

Dennis Alter

Beverly Lange, M.D.

Jonathan H. Sprogell

Alan B. Miller

Ellen Berman Lee

James B. Straw

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Welcome Dear Friends, Welcome to the American Premiere of Svadba–Wedding

by Ana Sokolović.

Our journey to this historic launch of our new Opera in the City series began in Toronto in 2011, when the wonderful Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess allowed me into a rehearsal at Queen of Puddings Music Theatre to observe six amazing female singers performing this work. I was blown away by their virtuosity and the cleverness of Ana's writing, and I loved the intimacy afforded by the rehearsal space. I felt a part of their story, and I did not want it to end!

When I returned to Philadelphia, I knew that I had found the ideal work to turn a simmering artistic idea into a reality. Our team had been kicking the tires on creating a series of unusual works in unusual settings. We knew we wanted to stage the opera in a small space, to replicate that rehearsal hall experience, and we were thrilled when our friends at FringeArts came aboard with their incredible new theater.

I also thought about the natural progression from meeting these characters and experiencing the night before a Serbian wedding. Of course, we had to throw a reception, complete with authentic food! And luckily, we had the West Philadelphia Orchestra, the best Balkan dance band in the country, already here in town.

We are so excited to debut Opera in the City with you tonight. In future seasons, we plan to collaborate with a variety of Philadelphia partners to continue to spark innovation and create operas that can speak to many different people in many different ways.

Enjoy the #weddingopera. I hope to see you on the dance floor!

D a v id B . D e van G enera l D irect o r & P resident OPERA PHILADELPHIA @ddevan d e v a n t a g e p o i n t . t u m b l r. c o m

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Opera IN THE CITY

SVADBA–WEDDING American Premiere Presented by and Production from

Music: Ana Sokolovi´c

Music Director: Dáirine Ní Mheadhra*

Stage Director: Marie-Josée Chartier*

Set & Costume Design: Michael Gianfrancesco*

Lighting Design: Kimberly Purtell*

Répétiteur & Instrumentalist: John Hess*

*Opera Philadelphia debut Svadba–Wedding is funded, in part, by

SVADBA–WEDDING Cast

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MILICA JACQUELINE WOODLEY*

ZORA VIRGINIA HATFIELD*

DANICA SHANNON MERCER*

NADA ANDREA LUDWIG*

LENA LAURA ALBINO*

LJUBICA KRISZTINA SZABÓ*

*Opera Philadelphia debut

additional production team members Stage Manager..............................................................................................Joanna Barrotta* Assistant Stage Manager .........................................................................Ariel Martin-Smith* Producer..................................................................................................... Nathalie Bonjour* Original Production Staging...................................................................... Michael Cavanagh Surtitles™....... Gunta Dreifelds

Surtitles™ invented by the Canadian Opera Company and introduced worldwide in 1983 with their production of R. Strauss’ Elektra.

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Synopsis Approximate running time for Svadba–Wedding is 50 minutes.

Svadba–Wedding is a raucous and intoxicating a cappella tour de force for six female singers.

Sung in Serbian, the action takes place the night before a wedding, when girlfriends stay up all night long preparing the fiancée Milica for her impending marriage. Using existing Slavic/Balkan peasant folk tales, myths and traditions as her text source, composer Ana Sokolović draws on her native Balkan folk music as a source of inspiration for Svadba– Wedding. She transforms the music and text into her own unique onomatopoeic language.

The scenes unfold, not in a linear narrative, but in a playful interconnection animated through drama, distilling magic and fantasy from ordinary moments.

Scenes 1.

Girlfriends sing

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Colouring hair

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Love Suit/Dance

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Competition/Alphabet & Patty Cakes

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Bath

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Dressing

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Farewell

At the conclusion of the opera, you are invited to join in an authentic Balkan wedding celebration, featuring traditional cuisine and live Balkan dance music from the West Philadelphia Orchestra. Approximate running time of the reception is 90 minutes.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTORs’ NOTES

We have built an exceptionally strong creative relationship with composer Ana Sokolovi´c since 2000. In that year we first commissioned her to write a 10-minute, a cappella work for six female voices titled Six Voix Pour Sirènes/Six Voices for Sirens.

The score she delivered at the time was a breathtakingly witty, sparkling and hugely imaginative vocal tour de force.

She demonstrated such obvious operatic potential, as manifest by an instinctual gift in writing for the voice, a sure command of compositional structure and a dramatically imaginative sound palette.

We then commissioned The Midnight Court Opera from Ana, her first opera, which was premiered in Toronto at Harbourfront Centre Theatre in 2005 and then toured to the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in England in 2006.

In 2008 we commissioned Love Songs from Ana, an opera for solo female voice which subsequently toured to Montreal, Kelowna, Vancouver, Paris, Zagreb, Ljubljana and the Holland Festival in Amsterdam.

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However, the original 10-minute work Ana wrote for us in 2000, Six Voix Pour Sirènes, was still ringing in our ears 10 years later. We’ve performed the work many times and the reaction from audiences is always the same – they are struck by Ana’s specific imagination in her usage of these voices and the enormously seductive, radiant sound it creates. We wanted to re-visit this combination of voices with Ana in a fulllength opera and this led to the commission of Svadba–Wedding. Ana wanted the subject matter to be about an impending marriage and she researched hundreds of existing folk texts on the subject of marriage in the Balkans. Ana chose the texts that corresponded to the musical and dramatic ideas in her head. We agreed the opera would be titled Svadba–Wedding and that it would be written in Ana’s native Serbian language with English surtitles.

We are delighted to present the American premiere of our production to you tonight. Thank you to David Devan and Opera Philadelphia for the invitation - we are thrilled to be here.

— Dáirine Ní Mheadhra & John Hess Queen of Puddings Music Theatre was founded in 1994 by musicians Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess.

The company was Toronto based and the recognized Canadian leader in the creation of original Canadian chamber opera/ music theatre. The company’s aesthetic of a physical, singing theatre showcased the performer as the central force with the instrumentalists integrated into the dramatic action. After twenty years of developing and producing new Canadian chamber opera, the company concluded operations on August 31, 2013.

COMPOSER’S NOTE and biography

When Queen of Puddings approached me to write an opera for six female voices, I took this opportunity to explore the wedding theme, especially the night before the ceremony, where we are privy to private and ancient rituals between the bride and her girlfriends.

The text is taken from original Serbian poetry but given a new context for our contemporary culture. The music is derived from traditional folklore. The compositional structure is informed by everyday images and objects – such as hair, cups, and water.

The scenes unfold, not in a linear narrative, but in a playful interconnection animated through drama, distilling magic and fantasy from ordinary moments.

A wedding is an important turning point in every woman’s life, usually steeped in tradition and always signifying change and juncture. Milica’s rite of passage is universal, an archetype of human experience.

Svadba–Wedding offers a chance to delve deep into the quality and richness of a short but decisive moment in time.

Svadba–Wedding is dedicated to my parents.

— Ana Sokolović

Serbian-born composer Ana Sokolović,

studied composition at university under Dušan Radić and, then completed a master’s degree under the supervision of José Evangelista at the Université de Montréal in the mid-1990s. Her work is suffused with her fascination for different forms of artistic expression. Both rich and playful, her compositions draw the listener into a vividly imagined world, often inspired by Balkan folk music and its asymmetrical festive rhythms. The winds of change brought by her work quickly vaulted her to a prominent position on the Quebec, Canadian and international contemporary music scenes.

In the winter of 2012, she was recognized as a national treasure by Quebec’s Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine.

Over the years, Ana Sokolović has earned a steady stream of commissions and awards. Today, her repertoire includes orchestral, vocal, chamber, operatic and theatrical pieces. In 2005 she wrote her first opera, The Midnight Court, for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, which was performed at the Royal Opera House, London, in June 2006. In 2009, she won the prestigious National Arts Centre Award, which included commissions, residencies and teaching positions over a five-year period.

In the summer of 2012, her opera SvadbaWedding, commissioned and produced by the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, received six nominations for the Dora Mavor Moore Awards and won for Outstanding New Musical/Opera. The opera then went on tour in Canada and Europe.

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) recently marked the 20th anniversary of Ana Sokolović’s arrival in Quebec with a celebration of her body of work. More than 200 events were presented in her honour from coast to coast.

Ana Sokolović teaches composition at the Université de Montréal.

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Artists LAURA ALBINO Soprano (Toronto, Canada)

JOHN HESS (Toronto, Canada)

LENA

Répétiteur & Instrumentalist

Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Pamina, The Magic Flute, Opera Atelier and Opera Columbus; Musetta, La bohème, Calgary Opera; The Cook, Le rossignol, Canadian Opera Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Lena, SvadbaWedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

Recent Activities: Pianist, Recital with Soprano Erin Wall, St. Lawrence Centre, Toronto; Repetiteur, Salome, Canadian Opera Company; Pianist, Recital with tenor Ben Heppner, Western Canadian Tour.

MARIE-JOSÉE CHARTIER (Toronto, Canada)

ANDREA LUDWIG Mezzo-Soprano (Toronto, Canada)

DIRECTOR

NADA

Opera Philadelphia debut.

Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Choreographer and performer, STRIA, Canadian Touring; Co-director and choreographer, Everyday Marvels, Nuit Blanche, Toronto; Director and choreographer, Constantinople, Gryphon Trio.

MICHAEL GIANFRANCESCO (Cambridge, Canada) SET & COSTUME DESIGN Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: La Serva Padrona, Canadian Opera Company; The Light in the Piazza, The Shaw Festival; Taking Shakespeare, The Stratford Festival; Svadba-Wedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

VIRGINIA HATFIELD Soprano (Toronto, Canada) ZORA Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Leila, The Pearlfishers, Opera Hamilton; Susanna, The Marriage of Figaro, Saskatoon Opera; Marzelline, Fidelio, Canadian Opera Company.

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Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Lise Meitner, World Premiere of Juliet Palmer’s Shelter, Edmonton Opera and Tapestry New Opera Works; Soloist, Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, Symphony Nova Scotia; Soloist, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Kindred Spirits Orchestra; Nada, Svadba-Wedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

SHANNON MERCER Soprano (Ottawa, Canada) DANICA Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Soloist, Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Mark Morris Dance Group and Tafel Baroque Orchestra; Soloist, Bach’s Lutheran Masses, Les Violons du Roy; Soloist, Handel’s Messiah, Seattle Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic; Danica, Svadba-Wedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

DÁIRINE NÍ MHEADHRA (Cork, Ireland) CONDUCTOR Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: La selva de los relojes, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre; SvadbaWedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre; Beckett Feck It!, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

Artists JACQUELINE WOODLEY Soprano (Port Elgin, Canada)

KIMBERLY PURTELL (Toronto, Canada) LIGHTING DESIGN

MILICA

Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Rigoletto, Opera Hamilton; La Calisto, Royal Conservatory of Music; Svadba-Wedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

KRISZTINA SZABÓ Mezzo-Soprano (Toronto, Canada)

Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Papagena, The Magic Flute (Ensemble Studio), Iris, Semele, and First Priestess, Iphigénie en Tauride, Canadian Opera Company; Soprano, Kafka Fragments, Against the Grain Theatre; Milica, Svadba-Wedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

LJUBICA Opera Philadelphia debut.

Recent Activities: Le Pèlerin, L’amour de loin, Canadian Opera Company; Musetta, La bohème, Vancouver Opera, Soloist, St. John Passion, Music of the Baroque, Chicago; Ljubica, Svadba-Wedding, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

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Dennis Scholl Vice President/Arts Knight Foundation

Q: How has your background as a venture capital investor and serial entrepreneur influenced your work at the Knight Foundation?

My previous career has actually been very helpful to my philanthropic work.

Knowing how hard it is to germinate an idea, to get an organization started and, when successful, to scale it are the kinds of skills it takes to make an arts idea great.

Q : Knight Foundation has provided seed funding for Opera on the Mall, the Opera’s annual free HD broadcast on the Mall at Independence Historical National Park, and now Opera in the City. How do these types of projects fit with your funding philosophy?

Audiences and their habits are evolving, a trend that is largely being driven by the digital disruption of nearly every industry and field. These days, people demand to be engaged. The arts organizations that are going to thrive are finding new ways to draw people in. We are working with arts organizations, like Opera Philadelphia, in eight communities around the United States to experiment with new formats. Then, when we see what works, we help spread those ideas to other cities. Community Supported Art, out of St. Paul, is another great example. It’s modeled after Farm Share, but instead of people getting a bushel of corn or tomatoes, they receive a basket of locally-made art. It started in St. Paul as a project of Springboard for the Arts, and we funded the organization to create a toolkit so that anyone can create a CSA in their community.

So far, more than 40 communities have!

Dennis Scholl is the Vice President/Arts for the Knight Foundation. He oversees the foundation’s national arts program, including the Knight Arts Challenge and Random Acts of Culture. He is well known as a collector of contemporary art for over three decades.

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Q : Over a three year period, the Knight Foundation created 1,250 Random Acts of Culture, bringing artists out of the performing halls and into people’s everyday lives. Out of the 1,250 Random Acts of Culture created by the Knight Foundation, 80 were with Opera Philadelphia. What inspired you to create the program?

So many institutions are struggling with maintaining their audiences, so we were looking for a way to remind people of how important the classical arts are to their lives.

About the same time, a friend sent me a video from a market in Valencia, Spain, where a guy selling ham behind a counter bursts into an aria at the top of his lungs. The audience was captivated as six people came out of the crowd to join him. I must have played it a thousand times as I thought, we need to recreate moments like these across the U.S. by bringing classical performers into people’s everyday lives. At first, we weren’t exactly sure how to go about it, to make sure it was more of a bold surprise than the pleasant background music you expect at the mall on a given Saturday.

With a little trepidation, we did our first one by putting a quartet in the middle of Miami’s County Hall. When we saw a man walking by, stop and wave his hands as if he were playing the conductor, we knew we were on to something. We’re even finishing a short documentary film about it. Of course, Opera Philadelphia’s performance of Handel’s Messiah at Macy’s really took the cake. I still get choked up when I see it.

Q : Philadelphia was one of the first cities chosen by the Knight Foundation to participate in the Knight Arts Challenge. Why was Philadelphia chosen and what did you learn about Philadelphia over the course of the Challenge?

As you know, Philadelphia has such a rich cultural legacy, with so many established and emerging artists and organizations. We felt that by offering the challenge, we could help bring up-and-coming groups to the next level. Over the three years we ran the challenge, culminating in our third winner’s announcement this spring, we were introduced to so many talented artists that we wouldn’t have met through a traditional cycle of grantmaking – groups like the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Vox Populi, The Clay Studio, BalletX, Taller Puertoriqueño, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, and so many others. We’ve loved watching them grow and their work progress.

Q : Now that the Challenge is complete, how will Knight’s role in Philadelphia change?

Stay tuned!

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