Performances Magazine | The Dallas Opera, October 2022/2023 Season

GIUSEPPE VERDI RIGOLETTO

OCT

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK HANSEL AND GRETEL

OCT NOV

FROM THE GENERAL DIRECTOR AND BOARD CHAIR

ANN STUART, PH.D. Board Chair

Welcome to our 65th Anniversary Season!

I cannot think of a better way to usher in this spectacular anniversary than with four new-to-Dallas productions. Rigoletto and Hansel and Gretel—two of my most favorite operas in the repertoire—kick o˜ the celebration.

Verdi’s masterpiece is a “baritone showcase” and I have eagerly awaited the TDO debut of George Gagnidze as Rigoletto, a role he has sung over 100 times across the globe. You are in for a captivating production as Tomer Zvulun and Erhard Rom transport us to 1930’s fascist Italy with Dallas Opera favorite René Barbera as The Duke of Mantua and Madison Leonard in her TDO debut as Gilda. This cast, led by Maestro Villaume, is sure to deliver Verdi’s searing drama in world-class style.

Next, we delight you with LA Opera’s production of Hansel and Gretel—rich designs by artist/director Doug Fitch and Humperdinck’s lush score enchant audiences from start to fi nish. Two of opera’s fastest rising stars, Kangmin Justin Kim and Elena Villalón, portray the famed brother and sister who come up against the iconic Patricia Racette as The Witch.

Finally, I wish to extend a heartfelt thanks to all of our patrons, subscribers, donors, and newcomers. Without you, The Dallas Opera wouldn’t be the cultural beacon North Texas has cherished for the past 65 years.

Happy anniversary and here’s to another 65!

Welcome back!

Dear friends, both old and new:

It is my great privilege to welcome you to the beginning of the 2022/2023 Season, our 65th Anniversary. Coming o˜ such a vibrant series of performances last year, it brings me joy to see us all gathered once more at the Winspear Opera House, settling in for two productions missing from our stage for more than a decade.

Whether you are visiting The Dallas Opera for the fi rst time or consider yourself a regular, Verdi’sRigoletto and Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel have something wonderfully welcoming for everyone–from the famous “La donna è mobile” to the familiar brother and sister fairytale.

Refl ecting on this anniversary year, I cannot help but thank you all for your continued support of the arts. Everyone gathered today is a testament to our community and artistic commitment. Let us revel in the talents soon to take the stage and applaud the past 65 years of The Dallas Opera.

One of our goals this year is to introduce the art form to more people and we call on you to bring your friends and neighbors.

Enjoy the season and happy anniversary!

PHOTOS: KYLE FLUBACKER, GITTINGS

COVER: THOMAS YOUNG, BALLPARK BLUEPRINTS

IAN DERRER

The Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO

• Hansel and Gretel | Friday, October 28

• Das Rheingold | Friday, February 10 • Così fan tutte | Friday, March 24

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ART DIRECTOR

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LAND AND PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Creating a place of belonging for everyone to experience this art form is a vital part of inspiring generations of opera lovers and honoring those who came before us. As an opera company, we are storytellers of the full human experience, and that includes the narratives we share about this land and its people.

We are on the original land of the Caddo, Wichita, and Comanche sovereign nations, whose people faced horrible treatment and policies that forced their removal from the land.

People were also stolen from their homes in Africa, enslaved, dehumanized, and forced to build Dallas through free labor.

While none of us created these conditions, we have the opportunity, responsibility, and honor to uplift these communities through truth-telling, greater connection, and holistic celebration.

Thank you for joining us in acknowledging this land and these peoples.

Giuseppe Verdi

RIGOLETTO

Production Sponsor

Martha Peak Rochelle

Season Sponsor

MARY ANNE CREE, IN MEMORY OF ROSINE SMITH SAMMONS

CAROLINE ROSE HUNT MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION

PHOTO: LYNN LANE/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA

October 8, 12, 14, and 16(m), 2022

Rigoletto is a Co-Production of The Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and The Atlanta Opera

Scenery originally created for Wolf Trap Opera

presents RIGOLETTO

Opera in Three Acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Sung in Italian with projected English titles. Projected titles by Scott F. Heumann, adapted by Jeremy Johnson

Approximate duration: 2 hours and 40 minutes with two intermissions

Originally premiered at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy on March 11, 1851

Nicholas Newton is the Charron and Peter Denker Rising Star

Madison Leonard is the Phyllis A. and Thomas H. McCasland, Jr. Lead Soloist

The projected titles used in this production are owned by Houston Grand Opera: Khori Dastoor, General Director and CEO

The Dallas Opera is a proud member of OPERA America

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center

CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE

The Duke of Mantua

Matteo Borsa

Countess Ceprano

Rigoletto

Marullo

Count Ceprano

Count Monterone

Sparafucile

Gilda

Giovanna

A Page Usher

Maddelena

Conductor Director

Set Designer

Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Chorus Master

Wig and Make-Up Designer

Associate Director

Stage Manager

Assistant Conductor

Music Preparation

Fight Director and Intimacy Captain

Projected Titles

Assistant Stage Managers

Production Assistant

RENÉ BARBERA

JULIUS AHN*

JOCELYN HANSEN*

GEORGE GAGNIDZE*

ERIK EARL LARSON*

MALCOLM PAYNE JR.*

NICHOLAS NEWTON*

RAYMOND ACETO

MADISON LEONARD*

ALISON BOLSHOI*

COURTNEY MAINA

ARMON GOLLIDAY

NADIA KRASTEVA

EMMANUEL VILLAUME

TOMER ZVULUN

ERHARD ROM

JESSICA JAHN*

ROBERT WIERZEL

ALEXANDER ROM

DAVID ZIMMERMAN

STEPHANIE HAVEY*

LISA MARIE LANGE

PAOLO BRESSAN

CHRISTOPHER DEVLIN and DONALD WAGES*

AUSTIN SPANGLER*

JERI SHAFFER

NATALIE MAIN* and CAITLYNN SANDOVAL*

ALETHA SAUNDERS*

*The Dallas Opera debut | ^HIWC Alumna

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RIGOLETTO

The good guys: Rigoletto (debatable), Gilda

The bad guys: Literally everyone else

QUICKFIRE SYNOPSIS

A curse, a vengeful father, a naïve daughter, and a womanizing duke. What could go wrong?

Rigoletto, the court jester to the Duke, has been cursed. Afraid, he hides his secret daughter Gilda, who is nevertheless mistaken for his lover, kidnapped, and turned over to the Duke. Gilda immediately falls in love with the Duke who, true to form, continues to sneak around with other women. To prove to his daughter that the Duke is false and a cad, Rigoletto sets the scene for Gilda to eavesdrop. *cue* “La donna è mobile.” She refuses to believe the betrayal, enraging her father to the breaking point. So, Dad hires an assassin to take care of the problem once and for all. Gilda, aware of the plan, sacrifices herself and is murdered instead of the Duke. A heartbroken Rigoletto discovers the ironic tragedy—the curse is fulfilled!

OPERA VOCAB

Opera: a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists

Composer: a person who writes the music for opera (and they’re not all dead!)

Libretto: the text of an opera

Voice Type:soprano (highest), mezzosoprano, contralto, countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (lowest)

Conductor: a person who conducts an orchestra, chorus, opera company, or other musical group in a performance

Bravo(a): an Italian term used to celebrate a standout performance

VERDI FUN FACTS!

• Rigoletto composer Giuseppe Verdi loved Shakespeare but couldn’t read English.

• Rigoletto is based on the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo—also known for his masterpiece, Les Misérables

• Lifelong rivals, Verdi was born the same year as Wagner. Can you believe they never met?

• In 1889, Verdi commissioned a retirement home for poor musicians, Casa di Riposo per Musicisti.

Whether it’s your first visit or you consider yourself a “regular,” we’re so happy to welcome you! Now, what did you just sit down to watch?

OPERA TIP: Unwrap your candy before the curtain goes up. Trust us, everyone can hear you.

PHOTO: LYNN LANE/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA

ACT ONE

At the ducal court of Mantua, a ball is in progress. The licentious Duke of Mantua openly pursues Countess Ceprano, much to her husband’s mortifi cation. Further humiliated by the Duke’s jester, Rigoletto, the furious Count Ceprano enlists the help of the courtiers in exacting revenge upon Rigoletto. They need no encouragement, for Rigoletto has many enemies. He has been seen in the company of a young woman, and in this his enemies recognize an opportunity for reprisal. Count Monterone arrives, demanding revenge upon the Duke, who has dishonored his daughter. Rigoletto cruelly mocks him, and Monterone curses both the Duke and his jester.

Later that night, Rigoletto agonizes over the curse. The assassin Sparafucile approaches him, cryptically o° ering to rid the tormented jester of his rival. Unnerved, Rigoletto turns down the o° er and sends Sparafucile away.

Rigoletto returns home to his daughter Gilda, whom he keeps hidden from the world, only allowing her out to attend church. She does not know her father’s position in the court and doesn’t even know his name. The spying Duke overhears their conversation and is surprised to learn that the girl he admired in church and followed home is his own jester’s daughter. As soon as Rigoletto leaves, the Duke, posing as a poor student named Gualtier Maldè, charms Gilda. Their meeting is cut short by noises from the street, and Gilda, fearing the return of her father, sends the Duke away. Gilda sings dreamily of her student lover while the courtiers gather outside to abduct the woman they presume to be Rigoletto’s mistress. When Rigoletto returns, the courtiers fool him into thinking they are abducting Countess Ceprano and ask for his help. Rigoletto discovers too late that he has helped the courtiers kidnap his own Gilda. He blames Monterone’s curse.

INTERMISSION

ACT TWO

At the palace, the Duke laments Gilda’s sudden disappearance, until the courtiers bring news that they have abducted Rigoletto’s mistress for his pleasure. Elated, the Duke cannot wait to reveal his true identity to Gilda. Rigoletto enters, searching for his daughter, only to learn that she is with the Duke in his chambers. He demands, entreats, and fi nally begs the courtiers to have pity. A disheveled Gilda suddenly appears and rushes into her father’s arms. Rigoletto is devastated and furiously rebu° s her pleas that he forgive the Duke. Monterone appears, bemoaning the ine° ectiveness of his curse, while Rigoletto swears vengeance on the Duke.

INTERMISSION

ACT THREE

On a stormy night, Rigoletto drags Gilda to a remote inn owned by the assassin Sparafucile. He forces her to watch as the Duke seduces Sparafucile’s sister, Maddalena. Rigoletto sends the heartbroken Gilda away, and then hires Sparafucile to kill the Duke. Maddalena, however, has taken a fancy to the Duke and begs her brother to spare him; Sparafucile agrees, provided that another victim can be found. Gilda, who has returned in disguise, resolves to sacrifi ce herself to save the Duke’s life.

Rigoletto returns at midnight as arranged. Sparafucile gives him a sack containing the body and disappears. When Rigoletto hears the Duke singing in the distance, he realizes he has been duped. Ripping open the sack, he discovers Gilda, who begs for forgiveness with her last breath. Monterone’s curse has been fulfi lled.

TDO PERFORMANCE HISTORY

The company has performed Rigoletto seven times in the following seasons: 1966/1967, 1970/1971, 1977/1978, 1986/1987, 1994/1995, 2000/2001, and 2010/2011.

Synopsis courtesy of Houston Grand Opera

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” — Alfred Hitchcock

Rigoletto is the ultimate suspense story. It is very clear from the first few notes of the opera that we are headed toward a Hitchcockian Bang and the brilliance of Verdi’s score is how we get there.

Verdi’s iconic jester character is doomed, from the very first scene, to an accursed fate. From the moment he is fervently cursed by a furious father, his mental and physical state deteriorate in front of us. Our production highlights his decline, particularly the psychological one.

Erhard Rom’s stark, monumental sets throw us back to fascist Italy of the 1920s-30s. It’s a violent, desperate world where privilege and class sharply divide society—and sometimes trap the innocent.

German painters Otto Dix and George Grosz, as well as their cinematic successors Fellini and Buñuel have inspired our production. Their work presents us with the abstraction, vulgarity, and surrealism that are essential to the story.

Rigoletto is a tale about identity, parenthood, coming of age, and the masks that human beings put on as they try to fit in society. This idea of masks, both literally and figuratively, are present throughout the work.

Rigoletto, Sparafucile, and Maddalena represent characters on the fringe of society—Carnies, clowns, fortune tellers. The Duke and his cronies represent unlimited power, laced with crime and violence. Gilda, a fragile girl who turns into a woman in front of our eyes, is straddling these worlds and eventually gets lost in them. A surreal, at times grotesque world, allows us to penetrate deeper into the tormented psyche of these characters.

Rigoletto is not a misogynistic piece. It is a piece about the misogyny and inequality that have been prevalent through history and still permeate today, in the “me too” era.

There is no realism to find here. The show is an allegory—a mirror to who we are. As distorted as the image might be, it still reflects aspects of humanity.

—Tomer Zvulun, director

PHOTO: LYNN LANE/HOUSTON GRAND OPERA

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Emmanuel Villaume CONDUCTOR

From: Strasbourg, France

Dallas Opera: The Mrs. Eugene McDermott

Music Director (2013/2014-present)

Career highlights: Maestro Villaume has been The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director of The Dallas Opera since 2013 and the Music Director of the Prague Philharmonia since 2015. Recognized for his interpretation of the French and Italian repertoire, he regularly guests with the most important opera companies and orchestras worldwide. Most recently, Maestro Villaume appeared at the Metropolitan Opera for the HD simulcast of Massenet’s Cendrillon, at the Munich Staatsoper for Carmen, in Covent Garden for La bohéme, as well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Mariinsky orchestras. Maestro Villaume has recorded extensively with all major labels. He studied music in Strasbourg, his hometown, and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Tomer Zvulun DIRECTOR

From: Tel Aviv, Israel

Dallas Opera: Die Fledermaus (2008/2009, debut), La bohéme (2018/2019)

Career highlights: General and Artistic Director of The Atlanta Opera since 2013, his work has been presented by prestigious opera houses around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, the opera companies of Israel, Buenos Aires, Wexford, Glimmerglass, Houston, Washington National Opera, and Seattle, as well as leading educational institutes and universities such as The Juilliard School, Indiana University, Boston University, and IVAI in Tel Aviv. Zvulun’s work at The Atlanta Opera attracted international attention by earning numerous awards and prizes including the nomination of The Atlanta Opera for the International Opera Awards in London and the selection of his production of Silent Night as both the Irish Times and AJC production of the year. His focus on innovation led to an invitation to deliver a TED talk as well as a case study that is being taught at Harvard Business School. Upcoming productions, in addition to Das Rheingold in Dallas, include Madame Butterfly (Atlanta), The (R) evolution of Steve Jobs (Salt Lake City, Calgary), Maria de Buenos Aires (San Antonio), Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Atlanta).

From: Seattle, Washington Dallas Opera: La bohéme (2018/2019, debut)

Career highlights: Mr. Rom has designed settings for more than 250 productions and in 2015 he was named as a finalist in the designer of the year category for the International Opera Awards in London. His designs have frequently been featured in the Prague Quadrennial International Design exhibition, San Francisco Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Vancouver Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Minnesota Opera and many more. In 2014 he designed the European premiere of Silent Night for the Wexford Festival. The Irish Times Theatre Awards named it audience choice and best opera production of 2014. Mr. Rom teaches design at Montclair State University.

From: Seattle, Washington

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: NYC/Off-Broadway: Coal Country, (The Public Theatre); Gloria: A Life, (Daryl Roth Theatre); Die Mommie Die! (New World Stages); Monodramas (New York City Opera). US Regional: American Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Kennedy Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera. International: The Gran Teatre de Liceu, Wexford Opera, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Upcoming:Orfeo ed Euridice (San Francisco Opera). Jessica is currently a member of the steering committees of Opera America’s Women’s Opera Network (WON) and Racial Justice Opera Network (RJON), as well as Opera America Board’s Membership Committee.

Erhard Rom SET DESIGNER

Jessica Jahn COSTUME DESIGNER

Robert Wierzel

LIGHTING DESIGNER

From: Branford, Connecticut

Dallas Opera: Les contes d’ Hoffmann (2005/2006, debut), La bohéme (2018/2019)

Career highlights: Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists and directors from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, in opera, theatre, dance, museums and contemporary music, on stages throughout the country and abroad. His NYC Broadway productions include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, the musical FELA! (Tony Award nomination) and David Copperfield’s Dreams and Nightmares. Mr. Wierzel has designed productions with opera companies in New York (Glimmerglass Festival, NYCO), Paris, Tokyo, Norway, Toronto, Vancouver, Wexford, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Houston, Dallas, Portland, Denver (Opera Colorado), Washington D.C; Minneaplois and Chicago (Lyric Opera & Opera Theatre) among others. Future projects include a new musical A Walk On The Moon. Mr. Wierzel is a creative partner at Spark Design Collaborative and is on the faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Design For Stage & Film.

David Zimmerman

From: Dallas, Texas

Dallas Opera: The Barber of Seville (2006/2007, debut), 43 productions since 2006/2007

Career highlights: Mr. Zimmerman has worked with numerous opera companies around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, and those of St. Louis, Santa Fe, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minnesota, Santa Barbara, Amsterdam and more. His career extends to Broadway, where he has worked with such shows as Wicked, Rocky Horror, Show Boat, South Pacific, and Evita . Some of his personal clients include Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Patricia Racette, Martha Stewart, and Ricky Martin. Mr. Zimmerman has also worked with DIFFA Fashion Runway, Dallas Fashion and Art, and Yelp.com Fashion Magazine; credits include spreads inOpera News, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. TV and Film credits are Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year,Margaret (starring Anna Paquin), and Hostiles (starring Christian Bale and Rosemund Pike).

CHORUS MASTER

From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Dallas Opera: Chorus Master (1990/1991-present)

Career highlights: Chorus master for 33 Seasons, Mr. Rom graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory of Music with a master’s degree in choral conducting. He has been a coach at numerous companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the Cincinnati, Ravinia, and Savonlinna festivals. An Honorary Visiting Professor at Finland’s Sibelius Academy and the Helsinki Conservatory of Music, Mr. Rom was a Visiting Professor at the Savonlinna Opera Festival Music Institute for ten years; he also staged and musically prepared Eugene Onegin while in Finland. Mr. Rom was a founder of the Grace Choral Society of Brooklyn, New York, of which he was Music Director for 19 years.

George Gagnidze RIGOLETTO

From: Tbilisi, Georgia

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: In 2009, the dramatic baritone made his sensational debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Rigoletto, where he has since then returned in more than 100 performances, singing roles such as Macbeth, Amonasro (Aida), Scarpia (Tosca), Michele (Il tabarro), Tonio (Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana), Shaklovity (Hovanščina), and reprising the title role of Rigoletto in 25 performances and two different productions. Other important opera houses and festivals at which he has appeared include the Teatro alla Scala (Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida, Tosca), Paris Opéra (Otello, La traviata, Aida, Tosca, Francesca da Rimini), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (La traviata), Wiener Staatsoper (Nabucco, Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana), San Francisco Opera (Aida, Andrea Chénier), Los Angeles Opera (Rigoletto, Pagliacci), Washington National Opera (Otello), the BBC Proms (Hovanščina), and the Arena of Verona (Nabucco, La traviata). Performances this season include Tosca and Aida at the MET, Macbeth in Valencia, Nabucco in Madrid and Tbilisi, as well as Aida in Los Angeles.

Alexander Rom

WIG AND MAKE-UP DESIGNER

From: Hayden, Idaho

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: This season, Ms. Leonard makes role debuts as Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles and Marie in La fille du regiment in returns to Austin Opera and Utah Opera, respectively. She also makes her Central City Opera debut as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette Her recent performances include her international and role debut as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier (Garsington Opera), previous performances of Gilda in Rigoletto (Seattle Opera, Austin Opera), Adina in L’elisir d’amore(Seattle Opera), and Chrisann Brennan in Bates’ The [R]evolution of Steve Jobs (Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Austin Opera, Seattle Opera). She is a 2018 Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.

René Barbera THE DUKE OF MANTUA

From: San Antonio, Texas

Dallas Opera: La traviata (2017/2018, debut), The Pearl Fishers (2021/2022)

Career highlights: Mr. Barbera was the first-ever sole recipient of all three top awards of the Operalia Competition in 2011 and the winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2008. A highlight this season includes Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia/Count Almaviva at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. He sings Fenton in Verdi’sFalstaff at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and later the title role of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux with Washington Concert Opera. He concludes the season with La Sonnambula/ Elvino at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and then returns to the Metropolitan Opera as the Italian Singer in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier

Raymond Aceto SPARAFUCILE

From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Dallas Opera: Aida (2012/2013, debut)

Career highlights: Ms. Krasteva began her professional career in 2001, debuting in such roles as Carmen, Maddalena in Rigoletto, and Fenena in Nabucco. As a ten year member of the Wiener Staatsoper ensemble, she performed more than thirty roles, including Princess Eboli in Don Carlos, Leonor de Guzman in La Favorite, Sara in Roberto Devereux, Preziosilla in La forza del destino, Marina in Boris Godunov, Olga in Eugene Onegin, and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. Other roles in Ms. Krasteva’s repertoire include Venus in Tannhäuser, Adalgisa in Norma, Amneris in Aida, Dalila in Samson et Dalila, Princess de Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur, and the Foreign Princess in Rusalka . She has also performed the title role of Carmen at many international theaters including: Wiener Staatsoper, Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dutch National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago,and the Bolshoi Theatre.

From: Cleveland, Ohio

Dallas Opera: Rigoletto (1994/1995, debut), 14 roles since 1994/1995

Career highlights: Mr. Aceto has established an important presence among the world’s leading opera companies and symphony orchestras. Recent performances include his return to Wolf Trap as soloist for their 50th Anniversary Celebration Gala, followed by his return to Seattle Opera as Hunding for a special performance of Die Walküre under conductor Ludovic Morlot. Mr. Aceto returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in his role debut as Captain in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, directed by Francesca Zambello, as well as to the Metropolitan Opera stage for performances in Madama Butterfly and Eugene Onegin. On the concert stage, he was most recently seen with the Cleveland Orchestra as Lodovico in Verdi’s Otello

Madison Leonard GILDA

Nadia Krasteva MADDELENA

Nicholas Newton COUNT MONTERONE

From: San Diego, California

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: Season highlights feature a Detroit Opera debut in Xerxes, Salome at Houston Grand Opera, and an engagement with Lyric Opera of Chicago in Hansel und Gretel. Credits of the recent past include a Santa Fe Opera debut in Il barbiere di Siviglia, an engagement with the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of Rodelinda, and the Houston Grand Opera world premiere of Joel Thompson and Andrea Davis Pinkney’s The Snowy Day. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from San Diego State University, a Master of Music from Rice University, and is an alum of the Houston Grand Opera Studio under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen King.

Malcolm Payne Jr.

From: Blytheville, Arkansas

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: This summer, Payne made his Carnegie Hall debut as a featured soloist with the Turtle Creek Chorale in the world premiere of Marquees L. Garrett’s Dreamland: Tulsa 1921. He is a Fort Worth Opera Hattie Mae Lesley Resident Artist and an artist of The Dallas Opera’s Educational Outreach Program. Recent engagements include Jesus in a new musical production titled Simon of Cyrene, Papageno in The Magic Flute (Music Ministry Conservatory), and Taste of Misbehavin’ (Dallas Metroplex Musicians’ Association), Voces Intimae’sSoul Songs, and Fort Worth Opera’sA Night of Black Excellence. Payne is also an acclaimed flute player who has been featured with several ensembles throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

From: Fort Dodge, Iowa

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: Ms. Hansen joined MiOpera in the summer of 2022 as Baroness

Elsa Schrader in their production of The Sound of Music. She finished a two year tenure as an Outreach Artist with The Dallas Opera, singing the roles of Laurette in Doctor Miracle and Manuelita in Pépito. Her vocal flexibility has also been showcased on the concert stage, including performing as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Amarillo Symphony, and with the Abilene Philharmonic in Broadway A La Carte

From: Westchester, New York

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: Ms. Bolshoi performed thrice at Carnegie Hall with MidAmerica Productions between 2019-2022. In 2019 she debuted as Amneris in Aida with Boheme Opera, NJ and sang Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at OPERA America. In 2018, Ms. Bolshoi sang a song cycle by Lowell Liebermann and another by Christos Hatzis in Greece, while her soprano engagements included covering Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer at The San Francisco Opera; Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with Huntsville Symphony, Alabama; soloist in a Wagner concert at La Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; soloist for a gala concert at Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, and Foreign Princess in Rusalka . She’s the recipient of The Liederkranz Wagner Section Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation Award.

COUNT CEPRANO

Jocelyn Hansen COUNTESS CEPRANO

Alison Bolshoi GIOVANNA

Fro m: Seoul, South Korea

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: In recent seasons, Mr. Ahn grabbed the attention of opera goers as he joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for performances of The Nose, Turandot, Rigoletto, and Die Fledermaus, making his main stage début as the Second Priest in Die Zauberflöte. This past season, Ahn reprised the role of Goro in a return to the Canadian Opera Company and will perform it again next season in returns to the San Francisco Opera, Atlanta Opera, and New Orleans Opera. Additional engagements: Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors (On Site Opera); Mime, Das Rheingold (Atlanta Opera); Guang, Stuck Elevator (Nashville Opera).

Earl Larson

From: Evansville, Wisconsin

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: Recent engagements have included Le Dancaïre in Carmen under the baton of John DeMain with Madison Opera, Escamillo for Parkway Concert Orchestra, Ford in Verdi’sFalstaff for TCU Opera, as well as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Sid in Britten’s Albert Herring, Maguire in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, and Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, all for Boston University’s Opera Institute. Mr. Larson has been in the young artist programs at The Dallas Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Music Academy of the West. He has received recognition in competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and the Giulio Gari Foundation.

From: Houston, Texas

Dallas Opera: The Barber of Seville (2021/2022, debut)

Career highlights: Ms. Maina has worked in The Dallas Opera Education Outreach program for 5 seasons as a Teaching Artist and has been featured in the program as Despina/ The Three Little Pigs, Dorabella/The Bremen Town Musicians, and returns this season as Adina/The Elixir of Love. She has been a frequent recitalist in the DFW area performing in venues such as St. Matthews Cathedral of the Arts, the Puccini Society, and the Winnsboro Arts Center.

From: Los Angeles, California

Dallas Opera: La bohéme (2008/2009, debut), Manon (2015/2016), The Barber of Seville (2021/2022)

Career highlights: Mr. Golliday’s operatic portrayals have included Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, L’Arbre in Ravel’sL’enfant et les sortilèges, Claggart in Britten’s Billy Budd, and Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. He joined The Dallas Opera as a chorister in 2004 and has performed with the Fort Worth Opera, Dallas Bach Society, Orchestra of New Spain, and is currently a section leader at Highland Park UMC. Mr. Golliday has also been a featured soloist in concerts in Venice, Italy, Salzburg and Vienna, Austria, and throughout Europe. Noted especially for his interpretations of early music, Mr. Golliday’s repertoire encompasses the works of Bach and Handel to later composers such as Mozart and Verdi.

Julius Ahn MATTEO BORSA

Erik

Courtney Maina

Armon Golliday USHER

A CHALLENGING BALANCE

The Irresistible Music and Story of Rigoletto

By Magda Krance

excited to take on the complexities of the tortured court jester who he called “one of the greatest creations that the theater of all countries and all times can boast…a creation worthy of Shakespeare!”

famous Act One soprano aria, “Caro nome” (“Beloved name”), is a gorgeous expression of a schoolgirl crush, which later gives way to urgent declamation similar to her father’s as he forces her to witness the duke’s promiscuity.

It’s central to the human condition: People crave stories about others behaving badly, and always have, regardless of creed, color, or continent. From the Oresteia, Salome, and Macbeth to Ozark and countless others, they make us feel better about ourselves, whatever our faults–while also making us feel a little wrong for relishing them.

Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto exemplifies that dichotomy of enjoyment and discomfort with its abundant dramatic tension between the brutal story and the beautiful melodies. Inspired by Victor Hugo’s 1832 play Le roi s’amuse (The King Amuses Himself), Verdi was

In 1851, Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave set the story in Renaissance-era Mantua, whose duke, a serial sexual predator, routinely ravages the wives and daughters of courtiers and commoners. He’s egged on by Rigoletto, who also taunts those who’ve been humiliated and violated. A curse or maledizione from a furious father, Monterone, propels the story; it’s telegraphed by an ominous trumpet motif in the opening measures and recurs throughout the opera, signaling its impending fulfillment. Unbeknownst to the jester, the duke’s latest target is Rigoletto’s own daughter, Gilda, who’s confined at home but who has secretly met and become infatuated with the disguised duke. A bribe and a blindfold enable the courtiers to kidnap Gilda and bring her to the palazzo , thinking she’s the jester’s mistress. Rigoletto vows vengeance for his daughter’s rape and hires an assassin, but Monterone’s curse eventually comes true when Gilda sacrifices herself to save the duke.

The music brilliantly exposes the story’s appalling behaviors and emotional jolts in ways that were groundbreaking in the mid-1800s. In his baritone title character, Verdi created an outsider protagonist mired in meanness and bitterness (traits often associated with villainy) who could nevertheless touch audiences with his protective, desperate love for his daughter in a dangerous, heartless society. Instead of the multi-movement arias typical of his previous operas, Verdi has Rigoletto sing in a flowing declamatory style more like dramatic stage acting. Gilda’s

Traditionally tenors are the good guys; in Rigoletto the duke cloaks his monstrous acts in privilege and artful hypocrisy. He gets the opera’s most famous tune, “La donna è mobile,” jauntily denouncing women’s fickleness and also, horribly, revealing the unexpected contents of the assassin’s bag to Rigoletto. As noted in A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker, this opera’s “most surprising innovation is in the tenor role…[his] musical idiom is close to comic opera… charming and persuasive,” even though in the plot the duke “is unrelievedly negative. Just as Lady Macbeth’s vocal virtuosity acquired a new, sinister meaning, so here the entire facade of easy, lyrical singing is called into question: it is placed at the command of a libertine, a man whose outer charm is grotesquely ill matched to his inner cynicism.” Caught between the duke and her father, Gilda moves “from extreme conventionality to extreme fragmentation” in her short, tragic journey to womanhood.

A dark thread that runs throughout the story is Sparafucile; he steps out of the shadows early on to offer his deadly services to Rigoletto–unnerved by this stranger who seems to read his thoughts. By Act Three, though, the jester is desperate to do business. He drags Gilda to Sparafucile’s inn on a dark and stormy night, forcing her to watch the duke seduce Sparafucile’s willing sister Maddalena. Rigoletto hires the assassin to dispatch the duke, but Maddalena urges her brother to kill the next stranger who comes through the (cont’d)

PHOTOS: KAREN ALMOND/DALLAS OPERA’S 2010/2011 PRODUCTION OF RIGOLETTO

door instead, sparing her lover, as she too has fallen for the dashing young charmer. In the thrilling penultimate scene of the opera, the siblings fight over how to proceed while Gilda, outside in the violent storm, vows to sacrifice herself to save the duke, and bursts through the door.

TDO’s season opener stars three formidable artists: George Gagnidze (debut), who has portrayed Rigoletto internationally to great acclaim; René Barbera, who brought down the house as Nadir last season in The Pearl Fishers; and the compelling rising star Madison Leonard (debut), a 2018 winner of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions. Bass Raymond Aceto (Sparafucile) and mezzo-soprano Nadia Krasteva (Maddalena) portray the scheming siblings, and baritone Nicholas Newton (Monterone) portrays the count whose course finally comes to pass.

Music Director Emmanuel Villaume conducts the production directed by Tomer Zvulun with sets by Erhard Rom (creators of TDO’s recent La Bohème), with costumes by Jessica Jahn (debut) and lighting by Robert Wierzel. Alexander Rom is chorus master.

This coproduction with TDO, Houston Grand Opera, and The Atlanta Opera updates the action to 1930s Italy amidst the rise of nationalism and fascism, conveying a disturbing sense of decadence and danger that mirrors facets of contemporary life. The creative team found inspiration in 20thcentury surrealist art to conjure the atmosphere we see on stage.

“Some of the most popular opera stories have the most controversial material,” says Ian Derrer, The Dallas Opera’s Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO. “They’re full of seduction and abandonment, lying,

THE DALLAS OPERA CHORUS

SOPRANO

Kristin Tallett Bittick

Megan Crews Cottle

Carelle Flores

Dana Francis Goodnuff

Cynthia Hackathorn

Stephanie Lynne Jennings

Tiffanny Lynne Lopez

Kristen Mata

Amanda O’Toole

Helen Dewey Reikofski

MEZZO-SOPRANO

Jessica Green

Lisa Huffaker

Shannon Moy

Silvia Paola Nuñez

Jennifer Mays Resendez

Denise Stom

CONTRALTO

Arielle Collier

Lisa Schlepp

TENOR

Duke Anderson^

Dan Crowell

Joshua Friend

deception, abuse of power, greed, vengeance, and murder.” Now more than ever, he adds, “it’s essential to find ways to present these works respectfully while also addressing evolving sensibilities and sensitivities. Through TDO Connections, we have created opportunities for learning and dialogue among members of the audience with our cast, creative team, and staff.”

Magda Krance is the former Director of Media Relations for Lyric Opera of Chicago. As a freelance journalist, she covered a variety of subjects for several national magazines and newspapers. including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Spy. She now serves on the boards of two music organizations.

Jay Gardner

Zach Hess

Jerry Johnston

Samuel PJ Lopez

Mark Malloy

Rick Rainey

Brian Rosewell

Andrew Smathers

Scott Sutton^

Jared Welch^

BARITONE

Clayton Kahler Brown^

Christiön Dior Draper

Armon Golliday

Tracy Herron

Eric Lara^

Matt Woodbury

BASS

Kyle Logan Hancock

Christopher Harrison

Donald Jones

Travis Wiley McGuire

Brian Post

Quincy Roberts

Bobby L. Tinnion

Andrew Ward^

^ 2022 | 2023 Auxiliary Chorister

Engelbert Humperdinck

HANSEL AND GRETEL

Production Sponsors

James R. Seitz, Jr.

THE RICHARD AND ENIKA SCHULZE FOUNDATION

Season Sponsor

MARY ANNE CREE, IN MEMORY OF ROSINE SMITH SAMMONS

PHOTO: KAREN ALMOND/LA OPERA

October 28, 30(m), November 2, and 5, 2022

A Production of Los Angeles Opera

Production, Stage Design, and Costumes by Doug Fitch

Sung in English with projected English titles. Translation and adaptation by Richard Sparks

Approximate duration: 2 hours and 10 minutes with one intermission

presents HANSEL AND GRETEL

Opera in Three Acts by Engelbert Humperdinck

Libretto by Adelheid Wette

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center

CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE

Gretel

Hansel

The Witch and The Mother

Originally premiered at The Weimar Court Theater in Weimar, Germany on December 23, 1893

The Father Sandman

Dew Fairy

Conductor Director

Set Designer

Costume Designer

Original Lighting Designer

Revival Lighting Designer

Choreographer and Dance Captain

Artistic Director, GDCS

Principal Conductor, GDCS

Wig and Make-up Designer

Assistant Director

Stage Manager

Assistant Conductor

Music Preparation

Projected Titles

Assistant Stage Managers

ELENA VILLALÓN

KANGMIN JUSTIN KIM*

PATRICIA RACETTE

MARK DELAVAN

LINDSAY METZGER

GABRIELLE GILLIAM

EMMANUEL VILLAUME

DOUG FITCH*

DOUG FITCH*

DOUG FITCH*

DUANE SCHULER

ERIC WATKINS

AUSTIN SPANGLER

KIMBERLEY AHRENS*

TERRIE PRESKITT-BROWN*

DAVID ZIMMERMAN

AUSTIN SPANGLER

ANGELA TURNER

ALDEN GATT

CHRISTOPHER DEVLIN and AURELIA ANDREWS

JERI SHAFFER

KATHERINE FORTNER, ALETHA SAUNDERS, and JENNIFER SHAW

*The Dallas Opera debut | ^HIWC Alumna

Doug Fitch is the James R. Seitz, Jr. Stage Director in honor of John Gage

Set construction by RA Reed Productions

Costumes by the Los Angeles Opera Costume Shop

The Dallas Opera is a proud member of OPERA America

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO HANSEL AND GRETEL

The good guys: Hansel, Gretel, The Mother, The Father, Sandman, and Dew Fairy

The bad guy: The Witch (we saw that coming)

OPERA VOCAB

Opera: a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists

Composer: a person who writes the music for opera (and they’re not all dead!)

Libretto: the text of an opera

Voice Type:soprano (highest), mezzosoprano, contralto, countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (lowest)

Conductor: a person who conducts an orchestra, chorus, opera company, or other musical group in a performance

Bravo(a): an Italian term used to celebrate a standout performance

QUICKFIRE SYNOPSIS

The mother returns home to discover Hansel and Gretel have not finished their chores. The punishment? Go in search of strawberries in a very haunted forest, home of The Witch. The children quickly find the fruit but do not return home; their parents realize that this was a poor decision. Alone in the forest, Hansel and Gretel, greeted by the Sandman, are put into a protective sleep. Upon waking, they happen upon a gingerbread house and, naturally, begin eating it. They are (unsurprisingly) discovered by the aforementioned and forewarned Witch who traps them in hopes of plumping them up to eat. Hansel and Gretel catch on to her tricks and, while checking the oven, they push her in. The Witch is baked, the parents arrive, the children are safe, and they all live happily ever after.

HANSEL AND GRETEL FUN FACTS!

• Composer Engelbert Humperdinck, not to be confused with the British popstar by the same name, began work on Hansel and Gretel in 1890.

• The opera’s premiere performance was conducted by Richard Strauss.

• Humperdinck served as the music tutor to Richard Wagner’s son, Siegfried.

• Hansel and Gretel is based on the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

OPERA TIP: Don’t talk to your seat neighbor during the performance. We know that aria was a banger—say it with

Whether it’s your first visit or you consider yourself a “regular,” we’re so happy to welcome you! Now, what did you just sit down to watch?

applause, not words.

Costume sketches by Doug Fitch

ACT ONE

Hansel and Gretel are at home, working to earn some money for their poor family: Hansel makes brooms and Gretel is mending things. The children are hungry and distracted, especially Hansel. Gretel tells her brother that their mother has hinted that she expects to sell enough brooms to buy food. With the prospect of something for supper, both children are more animated.

Their mother Gertrude returns, angry at how little they have done while she was gone. Unable to conceal her irritation, she knocks the pitcher of milk onto the fl oor, and dinner is lost. Despondent, she sends the children into the forest to fi nd something to eat. Their father Peter returns from a successful day selling brooms, with baskets full of food. When Peter notices that the children aren’t there, Gertrude explains that she sent them into the forest. Frightened, Peter tells his wife that he heard the townspeople speak of a witch living in the woods, who turns children into gingerbread by burning them alive in her oven. Both parents rush into the forest to search for the children.

Hansel and Gretel gather mushrooms and berries in the forest. Unable to resist playing, however, Hansel falls on their baskets, destroying them and crushing their food. As night falls, the forest becomes scarier, and the children realize that they are lost. Every noise and shadow frightens the children. The Sandman appears, dusting their eyes with sand, causing them to grow tired. The children say their evening prayers and fall asleep together beneath the trees.

ACT TWO

An orchestral interlude introduces a new day. The Dew Fairy arrives to awaken Hansel and Gretel. The children are groggy at fi rst, but delight overcomes them when they discover a gingerbread house decorated with every sort of candy imaginable. As they nibble at bits of the house, the Witch approaches, fi rst inviting them inside gently. When the children refuse, the Witch uses her black magic to keep them there. It becomes frighteningly clear to the children that they are on the evening’s menu. The Witch feeds Hansel, casting a spell that causes him to grow until he is plump enough to roast. While the Witch fl ies around the house excitedly on her broomstick, Gretel uses one of the Witch’s spells to enable Hansel to move. When the Witch orders Gretel to follow Hansel into the oven, the girl pretends not to know how and asks the Witch to show her. Leaning into the oven, the Witch falls for the children’s trap: they shove her inside. All of the Witch’s spells are broken, and the children who had been baked to make the gingerbread house return to life. Hansel and Gretel’s courage and bravery are celebrated by the other children. Peter and Gertrude come upon the scene and are happily reunited with Hansel and Gretel. Everybody celebrates the children’s triumph.

TDO PERFORMANCE HISTORY

The company has performed Hansel and Gretel three times in the following seasons: 1990/1991, 1995/1996, and 2002/2003.

INTERMISSION

Synopsis courtesy of LA Opera

Fairytales make great opera. They have simple plots where ordinary people confront impossible odds with extraordinary consequences. Their purpose is to offer a kind of self-help faith; you too can overcome terrible obstacles and embrace real hope for a happily ever after. Most of them emerged from the Dark Ages when pagan superstition informed a broadly animist belief that the world was operated by unknowable, supernatural forces which organized and animated the material universe. Everything had a soul. Most of these stories had characters with simple names like Jack or Mother and tended to happen once upon a time, long ago and far away. This vagueness of place, time and protagonist invites readers to imagine themselves into the story and to follow anyone who earns their sympathy be it witch, prince, child or frog— depending on where the listener is in the journey of life and what they might have suffered. A boy following Jack and the Beanstalk might well, for example, find himself with a very different takeaway than his mother…or an agriculturist, for that matter.

And while we’re on the subject of mothers, Hansel and Gretel—the fairytale, (not the opera) features a pretty horrific one, intent on infanticide, as well as some form of pastry-enabled cannibalism. Freudian-leaning shrinkers have suggested that the plethora of evil stepmoms in the literature might have helped children break through the parental hold and self-actualize.

In reimagining the story for a late 19th Century audience of youthful Christians however, Adelheid Wette, Humperdinck’s sister, the opera’s librettist and its originator, thought a mean mom was a bad idea and shifted the reason for her occasional outbursts from murderous frenzy to the inadequate feelings of a well-meaning woman, impoverished, starving, and destitute, just trying get her rambunctious kids to shut-up and do something useful. Rather than sending them to get lost and die in the forest, she just sends them out to find strawberries. Unable to feed them, she prays to God for help. Later, when they are lost in the woods, one of the most beautiful instrumental interludes in all of opera underscores the appearance of angels, as if to answer.

Revisiting the opera two World Wars and many inventions later, in a more pluralistically-aware society, Richard Sparks and I decided to bring back the story’s more pagan, less denominational genesis and repopulated the forest with mythical souls.

And now—whoever you are and wherever you are in the journey of life, please fall into this ever-evolving fairytale and find yourself in Humperdinck’s musical masterpiece!

—Doug Fitch, director

PHOTO: KAREN ALMOND/LA OPERA

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Emmanuel Villaume

CONDUCTOR

From: Strasbourg, France

Dallas Opera: The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director (2013/2014-present)

Career highlights: Maestro Villaume has been The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director of The Dallas Opera since 2013 and the Music Director of the Prague Philharmonia since 2015. Recognized for his interpretation of the French and Italian repertoire, he regularly guests with the most important opera companies and orchestras worldwide. Most recently, Maestro Villaume appeared at the Metropolitan Opera for the HD simulcast of Massenet’s Cendrillon, at the Munich Staatsoper for Carmen, in Covent Garden for La bohéme, as well as with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Mariinsky orchestras. Maestro Villaume has recorded extensively with all major labels. He studied music in Strasbourg, his hometown, and at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Duane Schuler

ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

From: Elkhart Lake, WI

Dallas Opera: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (1991/1992), 10 productions since 1991/1992

Career highlights: Lyric Opera of Chicago’s former resident lighting designer is associated with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies. At Lyric, he designed more than 140 productions. Among his other major achievements in recent seasons have been productions at the Vienna State Opera (Lucia di Lammermoor), The Santa Fe Opera (Carmen, Jenůfa), and Dutch National Opera (La Cenerentola). In addition to more than 25 productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Schuler’s work has been seen at Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, Dresden’s Semperoper, and the major opera houses of Barcelona, Paris, and Berlin as well as Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival, among many other companies. He has also designed lighting for Broadway (The Importance of Being Earnest) and for American Ballet Theatre. He is a founding partner of Schuler Shook, a theater planning and architectural lighting design firm. Among their projects have been, in Seattle, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall and the Seattle Opera Center; in New York, Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater; and, in Beverly Hills, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

Doug Fitch DIRECTOR, SET, AND COSTUME DESIGNER

From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: A visual artist, designer, and director, Mr. Fitch has created productions for the NY Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, and Royal Stockholm

Philharmonic Orchestra, and for Bard’s SummerScape Festival. He is also a cofounder of Giants Are Small, which, in co-production with Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon, developed Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood—a digital album featuring Alice Cooper as narrator and the German National Youth Orchestra. Recent highlights include LA Opera’s remount of Hansel and Gretel, Le Grand Macabre at the ElbPhilharmonie in Hamburg, and Punkitititi: a new show commissioned by Rolando Villazón for Mozart Woche 2020 with the Salzburg Marionette Theater, featuring Geoff Sobelle, and Pan, developed in collaboration with composer Marcos Balter and flutist Claire Chase.

Eric Watkins

REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

From: Birmingham, AL

Dallas Opera: Falstaff (2018/2019, debut)

Career highlights: Mr. Watkins is a lighting designer for theatre, opera, and dance. Past opera design work includes Show Boat and Falstaff (The Dallas Opera); Don Pasquale (Fort Worth Opera); The Property (A world premiere with Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited); La Cenerentola, Il Re Pastore, The Rake’s Progress and The Marriage of Figaro (Merola Opera in San Francisco); Alcina (Boston Conservatory), A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Santa Barbara and Kentucky Opera), and The Barber of Seville (Lithuanian National Opera). Recent Chicago highlights include the Chicago premiere of Verdi’sIl Corsaro (Opera Festival of Chicago); Fireflies (Northlight Theatre); The Magnolia Ballet (About Face Theatre); EthiopianAmerica (Definition Theatre); and Hooded: Or Being Black For Dummies (First Floor Theater). In early 2020 he designed a small international tour through Eastern Europe of Song of Home - a new devised work exploring stories of displaced women throughout history. The 2021/2022 season saw him on staff at the Dallas Opera and, for a short time, the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. He received his M.F.A. in Lighting Design from Boston University and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists local 829.

AND DANCE CAPTAIN

From : Ridgefield, Connecticut

Dallas Opera: Rigoletto (2022/2023, debut)

Career highlights: Mr. Spangler recently returned from San Fransisco working with director Elkhanah Pulitzer and composer Mark Grey on a groundbreaking new stateof-the-art mobile opera Birds in the Moon partnering with the New York Philharmonic, The Broad Stage Los Angeles, and Melon Foundation, featured in the NY & LA Times. He is also a recent recipient of a 2021-22 Arts Council England award as a developing artist, writer and director. Mr. Spangler has worked at the Royal Opera House, LA Opera, Bregenz Festpiel, Opera North, The Globe, and Glyndebourne Opera as a Movement & Action Director teaching in-house on their Young Artist Programmes or on main house productions. When he isn’t working in opera, Mr. Spangler works in film, TV, music videos and commercials choreographing on feature films such as Ronin 47 with Keanu Reeves, Romans with Orlando Bloom, Michael Winterbottom’s The Face of an Angel with Daniel Bruhl and Kate Beckinsale, and Netflix’s iBoy, Offbeat, and Allies, winning international awards and acclaim for film projects Embrace life and Carpool, in Rome, Cannes, and New York.

From: Dallas, Texas

Dallas Opera: The Barber of Seville (2006/2007, debut), 44 productions since 2006/2007

Career highlights: Mr. Zimmerman has worked with numerous opera companies around the world, including The Metropolitan Opera, and those of St. Louis, Santa Fe, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minnesota, Santa Barbara, Amsterdam and more. His career extends to Broadway, where he has worked with such shows as Wicked, Rocky Horror, Show Boat, South Pacific, and Evita . Some of his personal clients include Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Patricia Racette, Martha Stewart, and Ricky Martin. Mr. Zimmerman has also worked with DIFFA Fashion Runway, Dallas Fashion and Art, and Yelp.com Fashion Magazine; credits include spreads inOpera News, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. TV and Film credits are Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year,Margaret (starring Anna Paquin), and Hostiles (starring Christian Bale and Rosemund Pike).

Kangmin Justin Kim HANSEL

From: Austin, Texas

Dallas Opera: Flight (2021/2022, debut)

Career highlights: Ms. Villalón is a 2019 Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and most recently took home several prizes in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition, including 2nd Prize, Audience Prize, CS Prize, and the Wil Keune Prize. In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Villalón will join the ensemble of Oper Frankfurt, debuting as Iole in Hercules in a new production by Barrie Kosky as well as Atalanta in Xerxes. She will return to Houston Grand Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and the Queen of Sheba in Solomon for an international tour with The English Concert and Harry Bicket. She will also present a recital with the Tuesday Music Club in San Antonio, Texas.

Fro m: Evanston, Illinois

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: This year, Mr. Kim made his role debut as Knusperhexe in Hänsel und Gretel in Wiesbaden, appeared in the title role of Siface in Krakow, as Epitide in La Merope in Amsterdam and Basel, and as Ruggiero in Alcina in Brno, Caen, and Versailles. He also performed Ottone in La Griselda, and Hyacinthus in Apollo et Hyacinthus in Venice and made his Santa Fe debut in the title role of the world premiere of M. Butterfly. He has performed at theatres and festivals such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre du Châtelet, and Opéra Comique of Paris, Oper Köln, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Glyndebourne, Salzburg Festival, New York Lincoln Center, Philharmonie of Paris and Berlin, Harris Theatre Chicago, Edinburgh Festival, Lucerne Festival and the Teatro La Fenice Venice.

Austin Spangler CHOREOGRAPHER

David

Elena Villalón GRETEL

From: Manchester, New Hampshire

Dallas Opera: La traviata (1999/2000, debut), Jenůfa (2004/2005)

Career highlights: Ms. Racette has appeared in the most celebrated opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala, Paris Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real, and Gran Teatre del Liceu. She went on to make her directorial debut with a new production of La traviata at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in the summer of 2018 and returned in the summer of 2021 to direct herself in a production of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine. Ms. Racette is currently the Artistic Director of Opera Theatre of St Louis’ Gerdine Young Artist and Richard Gaddes Festival Artist programs.

Mark Delavan THE FATHER

From: Princeton, New Jersey

Dallas Opera: Falsta˜ (2018/2019, debut)

Career highlights: Mr. Delavan regularly appears in the title roles of Der fl iegende Holländer, Falsta˜ ,and Rigoletto, and as Iago in Otello, Scarpia in Tosca, Jochanaan in Salome, and Amonasro in Aida. In addition, as a strong character actor on stages throughout the country, he has proved himself a crossover artist of immense skill, starring as Phil Arkin in Milk and Honey with York Theatre Company, to critical acclaim. This season, Delavan returns to Maryland Lyric Opera for the title role in Falsta˜ He will also return to Dallas Symphony in 2024 as Wotan in their concert performances of Der Ring des Nibelungen

From: Mundelein, Illinois

Dallas Opera: Carmen (2018/2019, debut)

Career highlights: Ms. Metzger recently made her company debut with Austin Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, covered Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Ho˜ mann , and was slated to return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover Taller Sister inMissy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’sProving Up (COVID19). During the 2022/2023 season, Ms. Metzger joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover Flora in La traviata, returns to Haymarket Opera Company to sing Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and sings Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette with Opera San Antonio.

From: Pasadena, Texas

Dallas Opera: Madame Butterfl y (2021/2022, debut)

Career highlights: As a Fort Worth Opera Lesley Resident Artist, Ms. Gilliam stepped in as Luisa in the world premiere production of Hector Armienta’s Zorro. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, she was a district winner for the˜2020-2021˜Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, and was engaged in a number of virtual performances. Ms. Gilliam was also a featured soloist at TDO alongside Sasha Cooke and Deanna Breiwick in the orchestra workshop of˜The Diving Bell and the Butterfl y , a new work by composer Joby Talbot. This April, she will sing the title role in La traviata at Shreveport Opera.

Lindsay Metzger SANDMAN

Gabrielle Gilliam DEW FAIRY

Patricia Racette THE WITCH / THE MOTHER

Kimberley Ahrens

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, GREATER DALLAS CHORAL SOCIETY

From: ˛McKinney, Texas

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: Ms. Ahrens currently serves as Artistic Director of the Greater Dallas Choral Society. From 2013 to 2022, she was a principal conductor for the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas and has taught choir in the public school system for eighteen years. Choirs under her direction have been invited to perform at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in 2013 and 2018, and the American Choral Directors Association

Middle School/Junior High National Conference in 2014. Ms. Ahrens is a highly sought after clinician and guest conductor for elementary and middle school honor choirs throughout the nation and a frequent adjunct professor and guest lecturer at the university level.

Terrie Preskitt-Brown

PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR, GREATER DALLAS CHORAL SOCIETY

From: Dallas, Texas

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: Ms. Preskitt-Brown has been teaching choral music to children for over 40 years. A renowned conductor, voice instructor, and soprano, Ms. PreskittBrown serves as principal conductor of the Brio Chorus for the Greater Dallas Choral Society. From 2003-2022 she was a principal conductor for the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas. Ms. PreskittBrown has prepared children’s choruses for John Rutter’s “Mass for the Children” at the National American Choral Directors Association Convention in 2013, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2016 recording of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony.

GREATER DALLAS CHORAL SOCIETY

Kimberley Ahrens, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Hansel and Gretel Children’s Chorus

Kimberley Ahrens & Terrie Preskitt-Brown,CONDUCTORS

Sophia Abeyta

Caleb Aldis

Ella Aldis

Samuel Aldis

Vera Aldis

Anika Ammareddygari

Ava Ansiaux

Madeline Beluso

Zoe Bennett

Finley Benton

Frederick Berger

Sadie Bono

Ruth Bruno

Zoë Cernoch

Tula Charalambopoulos

Emma Childs

Eitan Cisneros

Taryn Climer

Penelope Correa

Kayla Culpepper

Devin Desilva

Noielle Eckert

Lilly Engels

Sophia Fitzgerald

Elyta Flora

Aryahi Gairola

Alexandra Gamble

Olivia Givens

Rohini Gopal

Sam Hastings

Sofi a Hernandez

Elizabeth Holt

Austin Howarth

Emerson Irvin

Ava Jafari

Corrigan Jones

Michella Kok

Kade Kuehler

Jenna Lee

Lauren Lo

Charlotte Marlowe

Patricia McDonald

Kane McLeod

Arjun Sripal Medara Metla

Elliana Mitchell

Holden Montgomery

Conrad Moore

Ananya Nagendra

Cici Nelson

Mary Abbay Neylon

Grace Nicholson

Brendan Northrop

Reagan Pfa° enberger

Beckett Potter

Audrey Pottkotter

Katherine Pottkotter

Sienna Roper

Mira Russell

Lane Russell

Angi Sanghvi

Amy Kate Scheib

Charlie Scheib

Leila Shelton

Jenani Sivamani

Amberleigh Thurman

Rebekah Tower

Ishaana Vishwanath

Makenna Whatley

Erin Williams

Upton Wortley

Avalyn Zeng

From: Dallas, Texas

Dallas Opera: debut

Career highlights: The Greater Dallas Choral Society was created in 2022 to continue the legacy of Cynthia Nott and the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas, one of America’s largest and most prestigious youth choral programs. Now under the leadership of Artistic Director Kimberley Ahrens, the GDCS is dedicated to giving children and youth an experience in choral artistry in a group that refl ects the ethnic and economic diversity of greater Dallas. Currently in their 26th year of service to the greater Dallas community, the GDCS artistic sta° serves over 250 singers in grades four through twelve. GDCS’s inaugural season boasts fi ve choruses, including three treble choruses for children in grades four through eight, a high school treble chorus, and a high school mixed chorus.

Hansel and Gretel Returns to TDO

By Magda Krance

Hansel and Gretel is a delectable confection of an opera. Musically and dramatically, it’s blended to perfection, resulting in a thoroughly satisfying feast for the senses, heart, and soul. It’s genuinely funny, just scary enough, and deeply moving in equal measure. Best of all, Hansel and Gretel can be enjoyed by adults and children alike. There truly is something for everyone here, in the best possible way.

The lushly majestic opening phrases assure you that all will be well in the performance journey that lies ahead, no matter what you’ve read about hungry children lost in the woods, ensnared by a crafty witch who wants to fatten them up for dinner, oh my! While some overtures lay out an opera’s themes in sequence, this one starts with the lost children’s prayer melody that closes Act One, which recurs as the daybreak music that opens Act Two. It then blossoms and bounces with sprightly and soaring leitmotifs from other scenes and characters before circling back to a quiet, luminous close.

Hansel and Gretel is the wondrous creation of composer Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) and his sister Adelheid Wette (1858-1916), an author, folklorist, and composer. She wrote plays for her children to perform at family gatherings; in 1890 she asked

Engelbert to compose songs for verse scenes she’d written for her version of Hansel and Gretel. They eventually expanded their parlor entertainment into a fully scored opera that premiered to immediate acclaim in Weimar, Germany, on Dec. 23, 1893—conducted by composer Richard Strauss, no less. The following year composer Gustav Mahler led the next performances in Hamburg, and from there Hansel and Gretel’s popularity spread internationally, reaching the U.S. in 1895 and Australia in 1907. It’s been recorded, filmed, and televised extensively, and performed live in a variety of settings and productions.

Adelheid and Engelbert’s source material came from another pair of famous siblings. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (17861859), grew up in extreme poverty following their father’s death. They

became avid collectors of German folklore and scholars seeking, in part, to preserve regional culture from French influences during the Napoleonic Wars. Early editions of their Children’s and Household Tales were heavily footnoted, unillustrated tomes full of grisly tales reflecting the extreme hardships of life in medieval times. Many of these came from the Grimms’ neighbor, Henriette Dorothea Wild, who eventually married Wilhelm. The Grimms revised and romanticized the 200+ stories they published between 1812 and 1857, which eventually became known as Grimms’ Fairytales. These include the stories of Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and others, which have been translated into more than 100 languages and modified into animated feature films suitable for all ages.

Wette softened the Grimms’ story, making the Hansel and Gretel libretto more suitable for youngsters by adding the gently protective figures of the Sandman, the Dew Fairy, and the guardian angels (who take fanciful form in this production). She also added the happy liberation of the other wayward children who’d been turned into gingerbread by the witch. Humperdinck had studied and taught abroad and at home, served as Richard Wagner’s assistant on Parsifal at Bayreuth, and composed choral and orchestral music early on in his career. In its evocative music, Hansel and Gretel reveals

his grasp of children’s thinking and behavior with insightful vocal writing, sophisticated orchestration, and rich harmonies. His first opera proved to be an instant and perennial hit, and the one work for which he is known. None of his subsequent operas captured the public’s imagination like Hansel and Gretel, in which he and his sister struck the perfect balance of scary and reassuring.

Historically, women sing both children’s roles. In these performances the rising stars countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim and soprano Elena Villalón

portray Hansel and Gretel respectively. Internationally acclaimed soprano Patricia Racette makes a welcome return to Dallas in her role debuts as both The Mother and the gleefully gluttonous witch, Rosina Leckermaul (a.k.a. Raisin Sweet Tooth). Baritone Mark Delavan, last seen in TDO’s 2018/2019 production of Falstaff, is The Father. Mezzo-soprano Lindsay Metzger is the Sandman and Gabrielle Gilliam is the Dew Fairy.

Music director Emmanuel Villaume conducts the LA Opera production directed and designed by Doug Fitch, with lighting designed by Duane Schuler. This marks the first time Hansel and Gretel will be performed in English (with supertitles) at the company, in superb translation and adaptation created for this production by Richard Sparks.

“Hansel and Gretel has not been seen on the Dallas Opera stage in two decades, and this new-to-Dallas production is truly spectacular,” says Ian Derrer, The Dallas Opera’s Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO. “It is fanciful and heartwarming–and the visual splendor will enchant a whole new generation.”

Magda Krance is the former Director of Media Relations for Lyric Opera of Chicago. As a freelance journalist, she covered a variety of subjects for several national magazines and newspapers. including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Spy. She now serves on the boards of two music organizations.

PHOTOS: KAREN ALMOND/DALLAS OPERA’S 2022/2003 PRODUCTION OF HANSEL AND GRETEL, KAREN ALMOND/LA OPERA

THE DALLAS OPERA ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLIN

Ellen dePasquale

The Mary Anne Cree

Concertmaster, in memory of Rosine Smith Sammons

Ami Campbell

Associate Concertmaster

Grace Kang Wollett

Assistant Concertmaster

Florence Wang Conrad

Amy Faires

David Miles Wolcott

Junsoo Park

Paige Kossuth

Kathy Johnson^

Jane Escueta^

SECOND VIOLIN

Kristin Van Cleve

Principal

Sondra Brudnak

Assistant Principal

Suneetha D'Apice

Lisa Shields

Natalie Floyd

Minhee Bae

Jina Lee^

Samantha Bennett^

VIOLA

Liesl-Ann deVilliers Principal

Katrina Smith

Co-Principal

Donna Hall

Paul Tullis

Colin Garner

Meghan Birmingham Vangeli

CELLO

Mitch Maxwell

The Catherine Brackbill Principal Cello Chair

Shawna Hamilton

Assistant Principal

Eric Forman

Vilma Peguero

Sara Hood^

Craig Leffer^

BASS

William Gowen Principal

Michael Lelevich

Assistant Principal

Steve Brown

Kirby Nunez

FLUTE

Helen Blackburn Principal

Ebonee Thomas

PICCOLO

Ebonee Thomas

OBOE

Gina Ford

The Eleanor Ford Penrose Principal Oboe Chair

Stewart Williams

ENGLISH HORN

Stewart Williams

CLARINET

Kenneth Krause Principal

Danny Goldman

Forest Aten

BASS CLARINET

Forest Aten

BASSOON

John Searcy Principal

Shannon Highland

HORN

Katie Wolber

The Linda VanSickle Principal Horn Chair

Jackson Prasifka

Gerry Wood*

Stacie Mickens^

Shelby Nugent

TRUMPET

John Holt

Principal

Rick Bogard

TROMBONE

Ian Maser*

The Cece and Ford Lacy Principal Trombone Chair

Tony Baker

Acting Principal

Jeremiah Umholtz^

Eric Swanson

BASS TROMBONE

Eric Swanson

TUBA/CIMBASSO

Jeff Baker Principal

TIMPANI

Deborah Mashburn

The Joan S. Reisch Principal Timpani Chair

PERCUSSION

Joe Ferraro

Acting Principal

Drew Lang^

HARP

Barbara Biggers

Acting Principal

PERSONNEL MANAGER

Brad Wagner

LIBRARIAN

Shannon Highland

ASSOCIATE MUSICIANS

VIOLIN

Inga Kroll

Lauren Haseltine

Elizabeth Elsner

Amela Koci

Rosalyn Story

Ellen Lovelace

Emily Loh

Robert Gonzalez

Chuong Vu

VIOLA

Désirée Elsevier

Jennifer Sweetman

Hannah Martineau

Haojian Wang

Tonia Pilliod

CELLO

Carol Harlos

Hamin Kim

Zach Mansell

Lise Engel

BASS

Scott Sheffler

Jack Unzicker

FLUTE

Lance Sanford

Katherine Velasquez

Alyse Hokamp

OBOE

Abigail Hawthorne

Donna Schmidt

CLARINET

Deborah Ungaro Fabian

Phillip O. Paglialonga

HORN

Heather Test

Brian Brown

Nancy Piper

TRUMPET

Oscar Passley

Miles Roth

TROMBONE

David Begnoche

Clayton Yoshifuku

PERCUSSION

Brad Wagner

Michael E. McNicholas

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: TERRY HAN

When you’re not at work, where can we find you? You may find me dabbling in DIY projects to outfit my home or on the search for unique vintage decor. Outside of the home, I enjoy taking in the Dallas arts and culture scene with my husband, whether that be attending a theatre performance, exploring the latest gallery exhibit, or catching some live music at a local venue.

For almost three years, Ms. Han has been a member of the Development team. As the Senior Donor Engagement Officer, she helps Dallas Opera donors invest in the company in ways that are relevant and meaningful to them. Meet Terry.

Favorite opera? The Barber of Seville—it has wit, memorable characters, and timeless music.

Favorite TDO moment? Opening night of Madame Butterfly earlier this year. It marked our return to mainstage performance at the Winspear Opera House after a 2-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The energy, emotion, and excitement of being together again was a testament to the hard work and tireless support of so many—the audience members, donors, artists, volunteers, and staff—who made that night possible.

What is something you want the audience to know about you?

As the proud daughter of Korean immigrants, I’m passionate about furthering The Dallas Opera’s missions of diversity and equity by helping make opera more relatable and accessible to a broader audience. I have the privilege of working alongside my amazing colleagues on the Equity and Belonging Cohort, which works to advance inclusive practices here at TDO.

What brought you to the arts? I have always been drawn to the arts. For me, experiencing memorable art together allows us to meaningfully connect with each other in a way that is deeply satisfying. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to travel to cities in the U.S. and abroad, where I have experienced a diversity of culture and creativity firsthand. I wanted to help provide a platform for creative expression here in my hometown, by supporting artists in their work and contributing to a vibrant local cultural scene that people from all walks of life can share.

What do you hope the audience will take away? I hope the audience can walk away with new perspectives or new friends—or perhaps an inspiring thought about the music, story, or design—something that sticks with them and enriches their lives after the performance is over.

Our donor family plays a critical role in making our performances and programs possible. With donations covering more than 75% of the cost of a season, our community of supporters are truly at the heart of TDO.

I’m so excited to return for our 65th Anniversary Season. That is sixty-fi ve years of a community of opera supporters coming together to bring this complex, lifeaÿ rming art form to North Texas and beyond. I’d like to sincerely thank our wonderful supporters for making this season possible. - Terry

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ADMINISTRATION

Ian Derrer

The Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO

Emmanuel Villaume

The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director

Nicole Paiement

The Martha R. and Preston A. Peak Principal Guest Conductor

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL DIRECTOR

Thu Nguyen, Executive Assistant

Shelby Homiston, Director of Communications

Meghann Jones, Director of Tessitura Operations and Strategy

Quodesia Johnson, Company Culture Consultant

David Lomelí, Artistic Consultant

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

John Harpool, Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Kevin Figg, CPA, Director of Accounting

Courtney Daggs, HR and Benefits Manager

Beverley Phillips, Accounting Clerk

Maria Siharath, Senior Accountant

DEVELOPMENT

Elisabeth Galley, Director of Development

Marie Facini, Institutional Giving Officer

Sydney Fellner, Donor Communications Manager

Terry Han, Senior Donor Engagement Officer

Hannah Huddleston, Donor Engagement Officer

Georgia Lahr, Volunteer and Event Coordinator

Linda Lipscomb, Campaign and Planned Giving Officer

Malikha Mayes, Development Database and Membership Manager

Veronica Roan, Development Assistant

Eva Shvartcer, Development Manager

MARKETING, SALES & PATRON SERVICES

Cindy Grzanowski, Director of Marketing, Sales, and Patron Services

Daniel Acosta, Advertising and Sales Manager

Megan Anthony, Patron Services Coordinator

Dorian Block, Social Media Manager

Valerie Bromann, Digital Marketing Manager

Jordan Hammons, Patron Services Assistant

Audrey MacNeil, Patron Services Coordinator

Sara Means, Patron Services Manager

Amy O’Neil, Group Sales Manager

Maya Rose Tweten,Graphic Designer

THE PEROT FOUNDATION EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS

Kristian Roberts, Director of Education

Rebecca Britten, Education Program Coordinator

Ebonee Davis, Community Engagement Manager

Christopher A. Leach, Education Production Coordinator

OPERATIONS

Walker Beard, Director of Operations

Robert Derby, Director of Information Technology

Shannon Highland, Music Librarian

Jennifer Magill, Artistic Administration Manager

Josh Martin, Artist Services Coordinator

Erik McCullough, Technical Director

Devon Patch, Rehearsal Assistant

Jeri Shaffer, Production Manager

Katherine Spellmon, Associate Producer— Artistic Administration

Mark Wagenhurst, Facility Manager—Karayanis Rehearsal Production Center

Brad Wagner, Orchestra Personnel Manager

Caroline Walker, Operations Administrator

Kara Zotigh, Rehearsal and Planning Manager

COVID 19 Safety Officers:

Griffin Camacho

David Hess

Claudia Holm

Sara Newman

Stage Managers:

Lisa Marie Lange

Angela Turner

Assistant Stage Managers:

Danielle Brewbaker

Jonathan Campbell

Katherine Fortner

Natalie Main

Caitlynn Sandoval

Aletha Saunders

Jennifer Shaw

Miranda Wilson

Production Assistant:

Aletha Saunders

Resident Design Staff:

Andrei Borges, Lighting Director

Tommy Bourgeois, Properties Designer and Costume Design Consultant

Madeleine Reid, Assistant Lighting Director

Oran Wongpandid, Wig and Make-up Assistant

David Zimmerman, Wig and Make-up Supervisor/ Designer

Carpenters:

Pat Spencer, Production Carpenter

Joey Barber

Keith Huston

Acreston Lockett

Robinson Parker

Enrique Ramirez

Damien Scales-Tarver

Anthony Woodard

Head Flyman: Glenn B. Boyd

Properties:

David King Boyd, Production Property Master

Glenn Geaslin

Orchestra Properties: Cliff Chambers, Production Orchestra Properties

Elfonso Hernandez

Electricians:

Paris Gutierrez, Production Electrician

Richard Buckelew, Projectionist

Yevgeniya Dickson

Amanda Hackney

Dean Horan, Production Board Operator

Forrest Howard

Edward Ruiz

John Shelton

Audio:

Brandon Arnold, Production Audio

Isaac Parker

Wardrobe:

Ginger Boyd, Wardrobe Mistress

Traci Hutton, First Hand

Denise Olemeda, Assistant Wardrobe Mistress

Kent Parker, Assistant Costume Shop Manager

Steven Smith, Costume Coordinator

Giva Taylor, Costume Shop Manager

Stitchers:

Jan Allison

Leila Hiese

Rosa Serrano

Nancy Steward

LEGAL

Armanino LLP, Auditor

Haynes and Boone, LLP, Legal Counsel

MUSIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS

Graeme Jenkins

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Martha Allday

Michael Baker*

David Bauman

Ruth Bison

Randall C. Brown*

Julie Buschman

Tassio Carvalho, Ph.D.

Ian Derrer (ex officio)

Cindy Feld*

Cynthia Floyd*

Antony Francis

David Genecov, M.D.*

Mark Geyer (ex officio)

Susan Geyer, Secretary

Linda W. Hart

Myra Barker Hull

Augustine Jalomo (ex officio)

Mark H. LaRoe

Thomas Maddrey*

Joy S. Mankoff

Holly Mayer*

Tom G. Mayer, M.D.

Tom H. McCasland, Jr.*

Edgar A. Morales

Marla C. Muns

Laurie Pan, Ph.D.

Stephen B. L. Penrose, Treasurer

Michael E. Phillips

Helen Rivero

Quincy Roberts*

Martha Rochelle*

Stephen H. Sands

Enika Schulze

Richard Schulze*

Linda VanSickle Smith*

Darren Speir

Ann Stuart, Ph.D., Chair

Betty Suellentrop

Steve Suellentrop

T. Peter Townsend

John Ward

Bobbi Wedlan Weil

Martha Wells*

Kern Wildenthal, M.D., Ph.D.*

Marnie Wildenthal

Jill Winspear

Joseph A. I. Worsham

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Alice W. Bass

Susie Bell+

Cecile Bonte+

Diane Brierley

John T. Cody, Jr.

John W. Dayton

Patsy M. Donosky

James R. Erwin

Ruben E. Esquivel

Marilyn Halla

Davis Hamlin

Kaki Hopkins

Connie Klemow+

Richard Massman

Geraldine “Tincy” Miller

Joyce Mitchell

Pat Rosenthal

James R. Seitz, Jr.

Martin J. Weiland

Ann Williams

* Executive Committee Member + Deceased

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Karen Almond

Angela Bettinger

David Boddie

Roger Carroll

Milene Carvalho

Scott Chase

John Collins

Terry Connor

E. Anthony Copp

Linda Custard

Jane Degler

Robert Dupuy

Gary Glaser

Armon Golliday

Howard Hallam

Jerry Lee Holmes

Robert Hull

Emily Jefferson

Elizabeth Kimple

Ford Lacy

Paula Lambert

Jenny Lewis

Jani Lotz

Julie Machal-Fulks

Jay Marshall

Mitch Maxwell

Phyllis McCasland

C.H. Moore

Katie Myatt

Arlene Navias

Louis Navias

Darryl Pounds

Ella Prichard

Joan Reisch

Marion Rothstein

Abraham Salum

Carole Silverman

Ashley Anderson Smith

Jean Ann Titus

Sarah Titus

Kenneth Travis

Jane Wetzel

James Wiley

Debra Witter

Katie Wolber

Preparing for the Future

In response to the cancellation of live performances for nearly two years due to the pandemic, TDO launched the New Vision Initiative in July 2020 to ensure a fi nancially sustainable future for the Opera through new gifts, multiyear pledges, and audience development initiatives. Gifts to this e° ort support every aspect of the company—dynamic productions with phenomenal casts, e° orts to attract new audiences, the expansion of TDO’s role in the community, and digital programming such as thedallasopera.TV.

As The Dallas Opera continues to focus upon reaching the goal of $30 million for the New Vision Initiative, it is now ready to embark upon Phase II of the campaign—a concerted e° ort to grow its ticket revenue and expand its audiences. You will begin to see many exciting changes over the next season as these e° orts take shape.

To date, The Dallas Opera has raised $19.5 million in gifts and pledges. Commitments of $1 million and above include the Perot Family, the Eugene McDermott Foundation, and the late Mary Anne Cree, as well as gifts from other generous donors who are recognized in this program book. The O’Donnell Foundation has committed $3 million to the New Vision Initiative, which includes a matching gift challenge of $1.5 million to inspire new and increased contributions over a three year period. The Dallas Opera is most grateful to those donors who have made gifts during the campaign’s early phase, and we look forward to welcoming new supporters of our New Vision Initiative.

To learn more about this campaign and other fundraising initiatives, please contact Elisabeth Galley, Director of Development, at elisabeth.galley@dallasopera.org or 214.443.1057.

PHOTO: KYLE FLUBACKER

THE DALLAS OPERA GUILD

2022 | 2023 BOARD

OFFICERS

Co-Presidents

President Elect

Reporting Secretary / Newsletter

Susan and Mark Geyer

Robert Maris

Don Warnecke

Treasurer Michael Watson

Corresponding Secretary

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Adopt-an-Artist

Development

Directory

Education / Insights

Gift Shop / Nominating / Bylaws

Hospitality / Guild Gatherings

Membership

Parliamentarian

Trip Coordinator

Vocal Competition

Volunteers

CO-FOUNDERS OF THE DALLAS OPERA GUILD

Mrs. Nancy O’Boyle and Mrs. William A. McKenzie

NEW VISION INITIATIVE GIFTS

$5 MILLION AND ABOVE

Margot B. Perot and the Perot Family

$1 MILLION – $4.99 MILLION

Estate of Mary Anne Cree

The Eugene McDermott Foundation

Jan Clay

Marilyn Halla

Bob Brooks

Robert Maris

Ruth Ann Becker

Jana Irwin

Carroline Neeley

Mary Ann and Jim Strunc

James Clay

Mary Anne and Jim Strunc

Susan Fleming

Chris Salerno

Roger Carroll

Patsy and Bob Brooks

Nicole LeBlanc

Jana and Mac Irwin

Judy Begal

Martha Peak Rochelle

O’Donnell Foundation

Linda VanSickle Smith

$500,000 – $999,999

Linda and Mitch Hart

John Ford Lacy and Cece Smith Lacy

$100,000 - $499,999

Anonymous

Holly and Tom Mayer

Phyllis and Tom McCasland

Dr. Joan S. Reisch

James R. Seitz, Jr.

The Richard and Enika Schulze Foundation

Martha McCarty Wells

$50,000 - $99,999

Martha Allday

John W. Dayton

David and Lisa Genecov

Winnie and Davis Hamlin

Hillcrest Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee

Joanna L. and T. Peter Townsend

$25,000 - $49,999

Cindy and Charlie Feld

Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Geyer

The Ruth LeVan Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Phillips

Ann Stuart, Ph.D.

Betty and Steve Suellentrop

Sarah L. Titus

FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTORS

IMPRESARIO

City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture

Hillcrest Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee

Hoblitzelle Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

O’Donnell Foundation

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee

The Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation

Ray H. Marr Foundation

The Priddy Foundation

The Rea Charitable Trust

Stemmons Foundation

TACA – The Arts Community Alliance

Texas Commission on the Arts

GOLD CIRCLE

Harry S. Moss Foundation

The Rosewood Foundation

Texas Women’s Foundation

SILVER CIRCLE

The Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation, Inc.

Mary Potishman Lard Trust

MEMORIAL AND HONORARIUM GIFTS

MEMORIALS

The Dallas Opera gratefully acknowledges the receipt of gifts made in memory of:

Robert Allday

Sylvester Blue

Cecile P. Bonte

Bill and Jean Booziotis

Gordon Cizon

Mary Anne Cree

Davetta Caughey Faria

Dales and Janet Foster

Frank H. Francis

Irl German

Helen Muñoz Gutierrez

Patricia Hutcheson

Plato Karayanis

Jerry and Sis Levin

Ray Marr

Mona Campbell Munson

Stuart Nelson

Virginia Payne

Ester Raines

Mary Humason Santiago

Raisa Shcheglova

John Stuart III

Bryan Hobson Wildenthal

Elizabeth Wilson

Don Winspear+

HONORARIUMS

The Dallas Opera gratefully acknowledges the receipt of gifts made in honor of:

Martha Allday

Larry and Dolores Barzune

Lisa Bury

Ian Derrer and Daniel James

Elena Fiat

Joel and Sydney-Reid Hedge

Bob and Myra Hull

Julia Lansford

Erin McLinden

Morris Robinson

Norman Silverman

Jean Ann Titus

Sarah Titus and Matilda

Morris

Emmanuel Villaume

Dave and Tucean Webb

Kern and Marnie Wildenthal

Don+ and Ellen Winspear

CORPORATE PARTNERS

IMPRESARIO

GOLD CIRCLE

Ameriprise Financial Bank of America

Ernst & Young LLP

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Locke Lord LLP

SILVER CIRCLE

Ben E. Keith Company

G Texas Custom Catering prototype:IT

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

Gittings of Dallas KERA

North Texas LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce

Salum Restaurant

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

For more information on corporate partnerships, please contact Marie Facini at 214.443.1061 or marie.facini@dallasopera.org.

The Orpheus Legacy Society is comprised of individuals who have made a planned gift by naming The Dallas Opera in their will or estate plan. When you join the Orpheus Legacy Society you make a lasting mark on your community.

Named for the mythological poet who charmed the gods with his music and was the subject of many early operas, the Orpheus Legacy Society honors those individuals who have made an investment in the future of our company through their wills or deferred gifts.

ORPHEUS LEGACY SOCIETY

Anonymous (4)

Martha Allday

Nancy Johnson Anderson

Rebecca and Michael Baker

G. Ward Beaudry

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Beitzel

Carole Braden

Diane and Hal Brierley

Ms. Mary M. Brinegar

Robert+ and Kay Carrel

Mr. Roger L. Carroll

The Carl L. Cerrato Family

Scott Chase and Debra Witter

Bruce Chemel

Annelies Christian

Patti and John Cody

Phyllis M. Coit

Betty Taylor Cox

Mac and Jana Irwin

Jo Kurth Jagoda

Emily A. Jefferson

Dorothy and Plato Karayanis

Judge James W. Kerr, Jr.

Kyle Kerr

Scott C. Kimple

John Ford Lacy and Cece Smith Lacy

Mrs. Robert I. Lansburgh

Ms. Carol J. Levy

Mrs. Mary Lysaught

Charles Mandernach

Joy and Ronald Mankoff

Pat Mattingly

Holly and Tom Mayer

Lynn McBee

Michelle Mew

Joyce and Harvey Mitchell

John Dee Swope

Barbara and Bob Sypult

Jean Ann Titus

Sarah L. Titus

Mr. and Mrs. W. Bradford Todd

Nancy Abbott Torell

Dr. Robert S. Toth

Ms. Sandy Tucker

Jeremy D. Wance

Kathy and John Ward

Dona and Michael Watson

Mr. Martin J. Weiland

Martha Wells

Jane A. Wetzel

Jeanette and George Wharton

Elaine Wiant

Marnie and Kern Wildenthal

For more information on the Orpheus Legacy Society, please contact Linda Lipscomb at 214.443.1086 or linda.lipscomb@dallasopera.org.

Grady E. Coyle, DMA

Alice Cushman

Anne Davidson

Arlene and John Dayton

Ms. Karen E. Keith and Mr. David A. Derr

Ian Derrer and Daniel James

Dr. James E. Elbaor

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Erwin

Susan G. Fleming

Mrs. Lee Ford

Dr. Gabriel and Monica Fried

Lee Gibson

Steven Gold and Merlene Walker

Joan L. Goltz

Ms. Gabriele Gruschkus

Mr. Mario A. Gutierrez

The Honorable Deborah Hankinson

Frederick Hoffman and Roy Joplin

Ms. Susan F. Holly

Myra Barker Hull

Robert L. Hull

Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine R. Moore III

Dr. Gary and Bette Morchower

Arnold R. (Andy) Mozisek, Jr.

Arlene and Louis Navias

Ms. Virginia G. Nerney

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Oliver

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. O’Neil

Neil Douglas Oxford

Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Patterson

Kenneth Peck

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Dr. B. Lynwood Simpson

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Samuel Williams

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Sheila F. Alvarez

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Randall Anders

Barbara Anderson

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George S. Augustas

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Lisa Clayton

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Jozef Foerch

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Fried

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Hector Garcia and Craig Holcomb

Ms. Jane Gartenhaus

Roxanne D. Gebauer

Austin J. Gelber

T.R. Geng

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Mary S. Harper

Sid Harris

Mr. Tommy Hartley

Theodore Harvey

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Mark Hatcher

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Dr. Enya He

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Cindy Kozmetsky

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Norm Krasne

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Walter Lese

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Ms. Lynnell Mandl

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Jeffrey McLeod

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Lynne Messina

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Suzelle Moffitt

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Nan Morrow

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Ms. Lynne Richardson

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Mr. Andrew Roberts

Claus and Christiane

Roehrborn

Mr. Dean A. Rogers

James and Nathanael Roseheim

Mr. William Routon II

Kara Ruckriegle

Laura and Jeff Ruediger

Ms. Elizabeth Russell

T. S.

Sarah Saldana

Jani Salyers

Ed Mr.Sargent Robin Sarma

Mr. and Mrs. David Saustad

Tracie Sayyah

Mr. Michael A. Schlesser

Dr. Thomas and Dr. Cristina Schlieve

Ms. Norma Schlinger

Ms. Judy Schow

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schroen

Jonathon Schulman

Ms. Elisabeth Settle-Calaway

Mrs. Ying Yuan Sfikas

Mr. John Shanahan

Mr. George Shaw

Ms. Sonya Sheard

Mrs. Nancy Shelton

Mr. and Mrs. Corky Sherman Bill

Shipp

Mr. and Mrs. James Shuster

Mr. and Mrs. William Siefkin

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Ms. Sarah Sims

Dr. Linda Siy MD

Mrs. Robin Skrine

Mr. David W. Sloan

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Daniel H. Solon

Mr. Mark E. Sorenson

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Ms. Misty Standifer

Marcella Stark

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Jason Stelzer

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Bennett Stokes

Gloria J. Stone

Mr. John Stone

Mr. Bob Straka

Ms. Janet A. Stripling

Mr. James Strunc and Mrs. Mary Anne Gentry-Strunc

Ms. Elizabeth Strutzel

Mrs. John A. Stuart Jr.

Sigma Alpha Iota Dallas Alumnae

Chapter

Ms. Colette Such

Lenore Sullivan and Barry Henry

Ms. Pia Summerour

Ms. Dixie Sweeney

Ms. Karen Swenson

Mr. Rodney Symons

Ms. Andrea J. Tabei

Dr. Laszlo Takacs

Sean Tang

Ms. Carole Taylor

Mr. Michael Teeters

Mr. and Mrs. Rhadames Tellez

Ms. Lurese Terrell

Mrs. Tuesday Thomson

Mr. and Ms. Seth Thornberry

Ms. Jo Tiller

Bob and Catherine Tolliver

Joanna L. Tomas

Mrs. Joan Toplicar

Mr. Howard W. Townsend

Mr. Robert Treat

Ms. Mary Carolyn Trent

Kayla Trolio

Mr. William V. Tucker

Mr. Leland Turner

Mark Turner

Helen Tuttle

Dr. Samuel A. Tyuluman

Alexander and Svetlana Utkin

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Ricardo E. Velez

Dr. Sylvia Venable

Ms. Teresa Venema

Mr. John Vitucci

Mr. Gary Wagner

Mr. Travis Walden

Andrea Walker

Nancy Walker

Mr. and Mrs. John Wangermann

Dennis Waters

Mr. and Mrs. Jon L Weinstein

Carl Weisbrod

Mr. Donald R. Wertz

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Mr. and Mrs. Todd White

Mr. Robert E. Wickman

Ms. Betty Williamson

Jane Willingham

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Chris Wilmoth and Valerie Hill

Devon Wilson

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Mr. Randy Wolveck

Elizabeth Wroten

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Wyly

Mr. Stuart Yarus and Ms. Judith Williams

Mr. Greg Yearsley

Mr. Brad Young

Ms. Brenda Yu

Andrew Zamora

Dr. and Mrs. Scott Zashin

Mr. Phillip Zeeck

Dr. and Mrs. Philippe Zimmern

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Anonymous (6)

Dr. John Avitabile

Robyn Barron

C. David Bedford

Mr. and Mrs. David Birch

Mrs. Carol Brettell

Mr. Jeffry Buchmiller

Julie A. Buschman

Ms. Judith Calvert

Ms. Amy Campbell

Mr. Henry V. Campbell III

Ms. Annabelle Catterall

Sally Cecil

Thomas and Margaret Chambers

Mr. John Checki

B. Allen Courtney

John Dersch

Patton B. Drewett, Jr

John and Judy Dryden Dr.

Fredrick L. Dunn and Ms. Priscilla A. Hollander

Dr. Melvin R. Earnest and Karen Fontenot-Earnest

Susan and Lincoln Eldredge III

Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. England

Haseena J. Enu

David Fang

Ms. Roberta L. Fischer and Mr. H. E. Gene Hair

Mr. Stephen F. Flynn

Qian Family Fund

Mr. and Ms. Walter Gast

Ms. Barbara Goff

Mr. Barry Goldfarb

Steven and Susan Haley

Jim and Ann Hambleton

Ray and Heather Hambrick

Mrs. Olivia Hasty

Mr. John Hawkins

Mr. and Mrs. Gray Henry

Mr. Henry Hill

Mr. Arthur Hong

Mrs. Lisa Jennings

Mr. Joseph Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. George Kondos

Matthew LeMay

Ms. Elva V. Lewis

Kirsten F. Lindahl

Ms. Bernice Lindstrom

Robert and Ginger Loshelder

Ms. Patti Martin

Mr. and Mrs. Dan McAllen

Mr. Arthur E. McLean

Mr. and Mrs. Bill McNutt

Mrs. Ciel Murphy

Mr. Patrick Nanto

Ms. Leighton Parker

Mrs. Carlene Peal-Sconce

Mr. and Mrs. William Peirson

Ms. Britney M. Penermon

Dr. Elisabeth Joye Petr

Ms. Patricia Phillips

Drs. Carol and Daniel

Podolsky

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Priest

Ms. Patricia A. Pruitt

Richard Rappuhn

Mr. William D. Reed

Ms. Elizabeth Reich

Mr. David L. Rodgers

Adrian Rodriguez

Mark Rohwer

Terry and Bert Romberg

Mr. Rodolfo Salas

Etty and Jack Sardas

Ms. Norma J. Shearer

Lolita Cuellar Sims

Mr. Christopher P. Siron

Mr. Stephen and Clara Smiley

Ms. Janet P. Smith

Dr. Gerald Soliday

Steve Spencer

Edgar Sprinkle

Ms. Shannon Stapp

Mr. Anthony Stern

Mr. Richard Stern

Dr. and Mrs. James Strauss

Dr. and Mrs. Edwin T. Strom

Mr. Joseph B. Stryhal

Mr. John Sunderson

Ms. Carol Tamminga

Dr. K. Alyson and Mr. Kurt Thompson

Terri W. Thurmond

Mr. J. W. Torrance and Ms. Ann Armbrister

Mark J. Uherek

Mr. and Mrs. John Vesey

Mr. Michael Vinocur

Dr. Joseph Viroslav

Mr. Walter Voit

Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Weber Jr

Mr. Peter Wender

Dr. Perrin White and Ms. Marjorie Boeck

Kelli Wright

Gordon Young

Ms. Laurel Zeiss

Ted M. Zobeck

GUARANTOR

($500+)

Anonymous (3)

Sharon and Gerard Balsley

Dr. Barbara Baxter

Mr. Mark Blaquiere

Mr. Donald W. Bonneau

Mel and Charlotte Booth

Ms. Diana Briner

Andrew Brock

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Browning

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bush

John T. Carlo

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot R. Cattarulla

Stephen Chamblee

Mr. and Mrs. Lester

Coleman

Lori and John Collins

Betty Taylor Cox

Mr. Michael Crow and Ms. Lorene Randall

Mr. and Mrs. Evan M. Cudd

Mr. Atlee Cunningham

Mr. Andre Desire

M. Dondero and R. Trammell

Beth Drewett

Ms. Teresita Dujon

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Enstam

Robert A. and Catherine Estrada

Myra Franke

Diana Gandy

Dee and Jim Genova

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Haggerty, Jr.

Mr. John R. Harpool and Mr. Richard Gordon

Bob and Debby Harpool

Cindy Hauser

Mr. Philip C. Henderson

Dr. Christine Ho

Ms. Nancy Hodge and Mr. Douglas W. Orr

Mr. Carle Howell

Mr. Mark E. Jacobs

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kaufman

Mr. Brad Kennedy

Ellen Lindsey Key

Mr. Christopher S. Klekar

Mr. Japheth Learn

Lesley Leuzinger

Ms. Elena V. Livingston

Mr. Jack Logan, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lorenzen

Lynn and Allan McBee

Mr. George McDonald

Ms. Linda D. McKown

Ms. Virginia Michalicek

Mr. C. H. Moore

Mr. Edgar Morales

Mr. Tim Morris

Sarah K. Naifeh

Mr. James Noonan

Ms. Elizabeth Norwood

Dr. and Mrs. German A. Oliver

Ronnie Pack

Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Paup

Mr. Bryan Peeler

Dr. Margaret Phillips

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Pickens

Ray and Martha Quigley

Mr. Mauro D. Ravelo

Dick Rawlings

Mr. Rust E. Reid

Ela and James Rix

Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Ross

Mr. Wayne Ruhter

Leif Sandberg

Mr. and Mrs. William Sandlin

Dr. Genie and Mr. Gary Short

Mrs. Tina T. Simpson

Ms. Nancy N. Smith

Dr. Rick Snyder

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Stoddard

Cynthia S. Thomas

Ms. Heidi F. Verges

Mr. Robert Webb

Karen and Howard J. Weiner

Ms. Marianne Wells

Ms. Karen L. Wiese

C.E. and Susan Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. David Yett

BENEFACTOR

($1,000+)

Anonymous (3)

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Abraham

Greg and Christine Acker

Mr. David Baad

Delia Esther Banchs

Nancy and David Bauman

Mr. and Mrs. Jon Bauman

Joan A. Becker

Boeckman Family Foundation

Mr. Steve Bottum

Mr. Joe B. Brooks

Ms. Jeanne Campbell

Tassio and Milene Carvalho

Mr. and Mrs. Bennett W. Cervin

Mr. Griffin Collie

Wendy Collini

Jess Corrigan

Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cronin

Ms. Lee Cullum

Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Douglass

Tom and Sally Dunning

Rosemary Enrico

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Finstrom

Ms. Ketty Fitzgerald

Dr. John G. Flores

Greg and Cynthia DeMars

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Francis Jr.

Candace Faber and Andrew C. Frechtling

Richard and Gaile Gertson

Julia and Thomas Grace

Carlos Gracia

Mona and Bill Graue

Nicholas P G. Greenko

Mr. and Mrs. John Hallam

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Harville

Jack W. Hawkins

Drs. Ted and Shannon Hayes MD

Roxanne Hayward

Mrs. Kathleen Muldoon and Dr. Robert Hendler

Dr. Virginia Hertenstein and Mr. Dean Hertenstein

Kaki and Shelton Hopkins

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Hull

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Ivy

Mr. Alfred Kelley

Mr. Jay Langhurst and Mr. Daniel Klingler

Will and Liza Lee

Mrs. Dorothy B. Leyrer

Fr. John Libone

Linda Lipscomb

Ms. Margaret McAllaster

Mr. and Mrs. J. Roddy McGinnis

Chris R. McIntyre

Geraldine “Tincy” Miller

Dr. and Mrs. William Morton

Eric Nadler and Ahn-Hong Tran

Kathy and Greg Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Mark O’Leary

Dr. and Mrs. R.V. Rege

Dr. Wilfredo Rivera and Veronica Diaz

Dr. Randall and Barbara

Rosenblatt

Mary Jane Rutherford

Alan J. Savada and Will

Stevenson

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Scott

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Scott

R.A. Seeliger and L.H. Harrison

Ricki and Gabe Shapiro

Lewis and Janet Shaw

Tom and Dorothy Timmins

Dr. Martin and Judy Tobey

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Upton

Mr. Robert G. Van Stryland, Jr.

Bobbi and Larrie Weil

Andrea and Loren Weinstein

Donna M. Wilhelm

Mr. James W. Woodall

INNER CIRCLE

($3,000+)

Anonymous (2)

Rev. Lawrence Althouse and Ms. Katherine L. Freiberger

Dr. and Mrs. Randall Askins

The Baggett-Luna Family

Carol M. Barger and William

D. Elliott

Mr. Carlos Barroso and Dr. Kay Colbert

Selly and Joyce Belofsky

Bryan and Robin Benak

Encore Wire

Mr. Michael Blazin

Sheryl Fields Bogen

Carolyn Bradley

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony N. Briggle

Charles and Diana Briner

Patricia C. and Robert J. Brooks

Dr. Joseph and Barbara Buchman

Alicia Burkman

Jack and Mary Bush

Evangeline T. Cayton M.D.

Consuelo B. Chavez

Jan and James M. Clay

Mrs. Robert S. Coit

Paul Corley

Grady E. Coyle, DMA

Patricia Crocker

Ian Derrer and Daniel James

Richard and Nancy (Jagmin) Dickerman

Steven Engwall Advised Fund of The Dallas Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Ruben E. Esquivel

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Exall

Susan G. Fleming, Ph.D.

Sarah Fry

Elisabeth and Dave Galley

Mr. Larry Gay

Jason and Charlene

Gladden

Mr. and Mrs. Don Glendenning

Dr. Agustín Arteaga and Mr. Carlos Gonzalez-Jaime

Tinsley Silcox and Joseph Guzman

Dr. Charles and Mrs. Marcia Haley

Mr. and Mrs. Ward Halla

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Halle

Kim and Greg Hext

Frederick Hoffman and Roy Joplin

Mrs. Suan Campbell Hughes

Jolie and Bart Humphrey

Melinda and James Johnson

Judge James W. Kerr, Jr.

W. David Klempin

Mr. and Mrs. Eric W. Laub

Dr. Max Spindler and Ms. Carol J. Levy

Robert and Susan Lorimer

Julie and Michael Lowenberg

Mary Lysaught

Nancy Wiener Marcus

Sara and David Martineau

Dr. James and Becky McCulley

Berlene and Jarrell Milburn

Don Montgomery, Jr.

William and Mary Moore

Dr. and Mrs. Gary C. Morchower

Ruth Mutch

Phillip Muth

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Toole

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Palmer

Dr. Ya-hui Laurie Pan

Helene and Mark Parker

Dianne and Don Patterson

Mr. Jonathan Pell and Mr. Cleve Schneider

Janelle Pendleton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Richter

Eileen and Harvey Rosenblum

Dr. Christopher A. Salerno and Dr. John Dixon

Mrs. George A. Shutt

Ms. Carla Siegesmund

Neal and Cherie Small

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Solomon

Dr. Stuart and Cindy Spechler

William and Jacqueline Stavi-Raines

Ms. Vivian Steinborn

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Stevenson

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Stodghill

Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Stone

John Dee Swope

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Taylor, Jr.

Cynthia and Harry Tibbals

Mr. and Mrs. W. Bradford Todd

Jerre van den Bent

Inge and Sam Vastola

Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Warnecke

Dona and Michael Watson

Dr. and Mrs. David R. Webb, Jr.

Leigh and Robert Webb

Dr. and Mrs. George W. Wharton

Robert E. and Karina Woolley

John Zrno

SILVER CIRCLE

($5,000+) Anonymous

Dr. Stephen Baker and Alberto Moreno

Mrs. Thomas P. Barton

Elaine and Bill Blaylock

Carole Braden

Mason Brown Family Foundation

Carol W. Byrd

Jean Tsao Chang and Kern

Chang

Bonnie E. Cobb

Grover and Jacqueline Ellisor

Frances and David Ertel

Jenifer and Peter Flynn

Dr. and Mrs. James Forman

Mr. Eric Foster

Monica Gaudioso

Harriett and Chuck Gibbs

Fred and Jerri Grunewald

Mr. Brian Hackfeld

Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Haley

Fanchon and Howard Hallam

The Honorable Deborah Hankinson

Adrea D. Heebe

Robert and Frieda Hudspeth

Stephanie and Hunter Hunt

Jana and Mac Irwin

Jo Kurth Jagoda

Dorothy and Plato Karayanis

Steven and Margaret Keirstead

Kenneth Killen

Dr. John and Mrs. Paulette Krause

Tom Leatherbury and Patricia Villareal

Barbara Thomas Lemmon

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Morrill

Ms. Danna Orr

Mr. and Mrs. David Pfeil

Caren Prothro

The Edward Rose III Family Fund of the Dallas Foundation

The Honorable and Mrs. William F. Sanderson, Jr.

Sarah R. Gannon and John Seddelmeyer

Mrs. David R. Stone

The Vice Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Walo

Ellen Winspear

GOLD CIRCLE

($7,500+)

Anonymous (2)

Lois M. Durden Charitable Trust

James R. and Carole Erwin

Charles F. Foster and Bill Maina

Dr. and Mrs. John M. Haley

Joanna and John Hampton

Patricia and David May

Kimberly and Brian Williams

Donna and Joe Worsham

PLATINUM CIRCLE

($10,000+)

Anonymous (2)

Terry Barrett and Krista Tinsley

Alice W. Bass

Kay Carrel

Christine A. Miller & Gary H. Glaser Charitable Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. J. Davis Hamlin

Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Kimple

Mr. and Mrs. John Ford Lacy

Ms. Paula S. Lambert

Mr. and Mrs. Mark LaRoe

Mike and Judge Barbara Lynn

Ms. Julie Machal-Fulks

Richard and Bobbi Massman

Mary McDermott Cook

Joyce and Harvey Mitchell

Arlene and Louis Navias

Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Roberts

Marion Rothstein

Jennifer and Thomas Russell

Carole and Norman Silverman

Jane A. Wetzel

Dr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Worsham

DIAMOND CIRCLE

($15,000+)

Anonymous

Deborah Mashburn and David Boddie

Mr. Roger L. Carroll

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Custard

Robert and Virginia Dupuy

Antony Francis

Raguet Worsham

Mr. Timothy C. Headington

Emily A. Jefferson

Nesha and George Morey

Ms. Marla C. Muns

Mrs. Angela D. Paulos

Ms. Ella Prichard

Pat and Jed Rosenthal

Suzelle M. Smith

Greg Swalwell and Terry Connor

Karen and Jim Wiley

LEADERSHIP SOCIETY

($25,000+)

Martha Allday

Michael and Rebecca Baker

The Ruth LeVan Fund

Debra Witter and Scott Chase

Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Geyer

Robert L. Hull and Myra Barker Hull

Dr. and Mrs. Willis C. Maddrey

Tom and Phyllis McCaslandCommunities Foundation of Oklahoma

Mr. James and Dr. Betty Muns

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Phillips

Dr. Joan S. Reisch

Martha Peak Rochelle

Brian and Debbie Shivers

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Smith

Ann Stuart, Ph.D.

Jean Ann Titus

Sandy Tucker

Kathy and John Ward

Martha and Max Wells

Jill and Malcolm Winspear

GUARDIAN SOCIETY ($50,000+)

Diane and Hal Brierley

Mr. James F. Carey

John W. Dayton

Cindy and Charlie Feld

Lyda Hill Philanthropies

Joy S. and Ronald Mankoff

Holly and Tom Mayer

Joanna L. and T. Peter Townsend

DIRECTOR SOCIETY

($75,000+)

Linda and Mitch Hart

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Sands

PRODUCER SOCIETY

($100,000+)

Estate of Rosalie Alexander

Lisa and David Genecov Family Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation

Stephen B. L. Penrose

Richard and Enika Schulze Foundation

Betty and Steve Suellentrop

Marnie and Kern Wildenthal

MAESTRO SOCIETY ($250,000+)

Estate of Marten F. Klop

GRAND IMPRESARIO ($1,000,000+)

Margot B. Perot and the Perot Family