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Welcome to the final performance in our season celebrating 200 years of Giuseppe Verdi – Viva Verdi! We conclude with one of Verdi’s most loved operas, La Traviata. Though today it is one of the Top 10 operas performed in North America, when it first premiered Verdi wrote to his friend Giulio Ricordi, “Traviata was a fiasco. Don’t try to work out the reason, that’s just the way it is.” Sometimes even the greats can be proved wrong for now it is enjoyed around the world. We’re happy to have this great and beautiful Verdi opera to finish our season. As we bid farewell to our 2012-13 season, we also welcome something new at Calgary Opera. This August, we are introducing Canada’s first outdoor summer opera festival, Opera in the Village. For four exciting days we will feature our mainstage performance of The Pirates of Penzance, as well as host numerous other festival activities including opera movie nights under the stars, impromptu opera performances, fight demonstrations and an opera camp for children. All of this will take place in the heart of East Village, on the banks of the Bow River. We have assembled an oustanding Canadian cast for this new venture with Tracy Dahl as Mabel, Brett Polegato as the Pirate King, Colin Ainsworth as Frederic, Elizabeth Turnbull as Ruth, local Calgary actor David LeReaney as Major General Stanley and Thomas Goerz as the Sergeant of Police.
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For the launch of our subscription season, we present The Italian Girl in Algiers, a buffo opera full of Rossini’s joyously energized and vibrant music. In recognition of Wagner’s 200th anniversary we present The Flying Dutchman, the first Wagner opera on Calgary Opera’s stage in over 20 years. Finally, as the perfect close we present a new production of Madame Butterfly, directed by Glynis Leyshon, designed by Bretta Gerecke and conducted by Joseph Mechavich. In May, our Emerging Artists take centre stage with The Rape of Lucretia in celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Benjamin Britten. I hope you look forward to our upcoming season of passion, strength and seduction. See you at the opera! General Director and CEO, W.R. (Bob) McPhee LA TRAVIATA 7
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celebrating Verdi’s 200th anniversary, and what better way to bring it to a close than with Verdi’s beloved work, La Traviata. I’d like to thank everyone who has made this season so exceptional and shared the unique experience of opera with friends, family and loved ones. It is this spirit of building community around our bold artform that I feel is so vital and rewarding. Community outreach is an integral part of what we do, demonstrated with programs like the Opera in Schools tour and Let’s Create an Opera. This season our Emerging Artists performed Hannaraptor for over 10,000 students in communities as far reaching as the Fort McMurray area. And with the support of Cenovus Energy, Calgary Opera was also able to offer a free performance to over 116 children and families through Kids Up Front. As May approaches, so do the final presentations of our Let’s Create an Opera schools to their friends and families. All year long, students from Grades One through Six have been working with our librettists, composers and directors to create their very own original operas. The students take on every aspect of the project from set building and painting, to prop and costume construction. This program wouldn’t be possible without the support of Education Sponsor Talisman Energy. In the spirit of creation, I am very excited about Calgary Opera’s latest venture – a completely new way to experience opera in our city – Opera in the Village. I invite you to take part in this four-day celebration of opera in the oldest, newest, coolest, warmest Calgary community, East Village. With tremendous support from our key partner Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, and the
festival’s presenting sponsor Imperial Oil Foundation, our vision of engaging audiences and enhancing the community through opera is being realized. I would also like to thank key festival supporters The Government of Alberta, The Remarkable Experience Accelerator Program – Calgary Hotel Association and Calgary Arts Development Authority, The City of Calgary’s Event Stimulus Program, festival founders FRAM + Slokker, Embassy Bosa and Cenovus as well as Tourism Calgary. And now for one of Verdi’s most popular operas – La Traviata. Again it is through the support of so many that we are able to bring you this grand masterpiece. We would like to single out the production sponsor Nexen who has been supporting Calgary Opera for many years. And as the Viva Verdi season comes to a close we also thank our Viva Verdi season sponsor Husky Energy. Opera brings together the drama of a theatrical performance with the beauty of operatic singing. Combine this with rich costumes, sweeping scenery, a classic story and the power of a full orchestra and you have an evening you’ll never forget. Thank you for sharing this experience with us. Chair, Marilyn Milavsky
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Let’s Create an Opera Students from St. Joseph School work on their original opera.
Calgary Opera’s Let’s Create an Opera program has been going strong for over a decade. Each year it introduces more students to all of the elements that contribute to the creation of an original opera production, whether it’s coming up with ideas for the story, painting the set, experimenting with the music or rehearsing with the director. The program’s uniqueness is that each and every element is initiated and created by the students. Beginning in September, our librettist starts the process by brainstorming with the kids about possible storylines for their opera. Over the years there have been exploding volcanos and magical mathematicians, tropical islands and secret worlds under the bed. Our librettists are often amazed by the boundless creativity of the students they get to work with. From there, the composer works with specific groups to draw out the melodies that will be used in the opera.
They often do this using a variety of instruments that the students are used to working with in music class. The last step is for our stage director to go into the school and bring the whole thing together. The final production is presented in May or June, to an audience of teachers, friends and family. “The Let’s Create an Opera program is one of the best I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with,” says Teacher John Watson of St. Joseph School. “To collaborate with true professionals is an overwhelming experience.” St. Joseph School is one of three schools to be participating in the Let’s Create an Opera program this year, as well as St. Bernadette Elementary School and Patrick Arlie School.
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program notes
Setting the Stage When, early in 1853, Verdi’s new opera La Traviata was due to be premiered at Venice’s La Fenice, he was determined it should be given in contemporary costume. It was not the first time that Verdi had envisaged an opera with a contemporary setting – Stiffellio, premiered only three years earlier, had been set in the 1820s – but this was different. Stifellio, with its settings of a castle and the interior of a church, had a text that resembled a Gothic novel rather than anything from real life. La Traviata, though, was ultimately based on an all-too-real story that had taken place less than ten years before – equivalent today to seeing a new opera based on events in 2006. That story, too, was well known across Europe. Marie (Alphonsine) Duplessis, a young French woman born in 1824 into poverty, had, by the time she was 17, become one of the most famous beauties and demimonde courtesans of fashionable Paris. She was, at one point or another, the mistress of a Duke who served as Foreign Minister to Napoleon III, a Count who was a former Russian Ambassador, and (briefly) Liszt, and was married to a Viscount. In 1844, she met the writer Alexander Dumas the Younger – she was 19, he only 20. For a few months, they had a passionate love affair, which he eventually broke off as he could no longer stand sharing her with her other lovers. He wrote her a somewhat brutal letter, and went abroad to forget her. Two years later she was dead of tuberculosis at the age of 23.
Dumas coincidentally returned to France a week after her death, and (partly inspired by a copy of Abbé Prevost’s Manon Lescaut he found among her effects) he turned his love affair first into a best selling novel, La Dame au camélias, in 1848, and then into a scandalous play premiered in 1852 – scandalous, because while portraying a courtesan in a novel was (just) acceptable, portraying her on stage was not. The central loveaffair between Marguerite and Armand was essentially autobiographical (even the camellias seem to have had a basis in fact) and the real-life counterparts to the lesser aristocrats were easily recognized. The major additions to the true story were the invention of Armand’s father and the events he sets in motion, and the return of the hero before Marguerite dies. Verdi almost certainly saw the play when he was in Paris in 1852, and there were a number of themes that would have resonated. His first wife had died young, and he had since the late 1840s been openly living with Giuseppina Strepponi, who for the rest of his life was his inseparable companion and lover – they did not get actually married until 1859. In 1851, Verdi received a letter from Antonio Barezzi, formerly his great benefactor, and the father of his first wife. The letter does not survive, but Verdi’s reply does, and clearly Barezzi criticized him severely for living in sin. Indeed the good citizens of Busseto, Verdi’s home town, initially viewed Giuseppina as little better than a courtesan. Something of the great affection Verdi had for his first father-in-law surely comes across in the opera’s eventually sympathetic portrait of Germont senior.
Verdi’s new opera, then, not only broke the conventions by presenting a courtesan, but also operatic tradition by its contemporary setting. All this was too much for the censors, even though some of the coarser elements of the Dumas play had been toned down by librettist Piave, and the setting had to be put back a hundred years or so. As it was, the first night on March 6th, 1853, was a famous fiasco, in part because of the subject matter and in part because of a poor cast. Verdi was vindicated when in May 1854 the rival Venetian opera house, the Teatro Benedetto, mounted a triumphant production, albeit still set in the historical past. The opera continued to shock – the venerable London Times went so far as to print an editorial in 1856 thundering that ‘next season we trust to hear no more such abominations.’ It thundered in vain. Soon productions did take place in contemporary costume, and since then La Traviata has not only become Verdi’s most popular work, but (according to Operabase, who tracks such things), the most performed opera worldwide in the last five years. It is not hard to see why. La Traviata has powerful dramatic drive and unity. It is stubbornly realistic, in whatever period it is set. It has unforgettable melodies. It can make audiences weep, without the sentimentality of a Puccini. And above all, the central role of Violetta is one of pinnacles of the soprano’s art, requiring not the hugest of voices but the subtlest of vocal acting. It is, quite simply, great music drama. Mark Morris
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LISTED IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE
Violetta | Lyne Fortin Alfredo | William Joyner Giorgio Germont | John Fanning Baron Douphol | Andrew Love Dr. Grenvil | Clarence Frazer* Flora | Jennifer Sproule Marquise D’Obigny | Tyler Fitzgerald* Annina | Jessica Strong* Gastone | Michael Marino* *2012-13 Emerging Artist Cast subject to change
Calgary Opera Chorus Chorus Director | Sandra Atkinson Accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Repetiteur | Michael Shannon Choreographer | Ksenia Thurgood Opera Titles | John Bouz Operatitles furnished by Aria Nuova Presentations Stage Manager | Donna Sharpe Assistant Stage Manager | Nicole Bergen Assistant Stage Manager | Holly Clark Apprentice Stage Manager | Maddie Pauling Head of Wardrobe | Heather Moore Head Make-Up Artist | Angela McIntosh Head Wig and Hair Artist | Laura de Moissac Head of Props | Waunita Simmons Scenic Carpenter | John Bouman Calgary Opera is proud to work with the professional stage hands and artisans provided by IATSE Local 212 LA TRAVIATA 15
ACT I April 20, 24, 26, 2013 Sung in Italian with English surtitles projected above the stage
synopsis
In her Paris salon, the courtesan Violetta Valéry greets party guests, including Flora Bervoix, the Marquis d’Obigny, Baron Douphol, and Gastone, who introduces a new admirer, Alfredo Germont. This young man, having adored Violetta from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra is heard in the next room, but as guests move there to dance, Violetta suffers a fainting spell, sends the guests on ahead, and goes to her parlor to recover. Alfredo comes in, and since they are alone, confesses his love. At first Violetta protests that love means nothing to her. Something about his sincerity touches her, however, and she promises to meet him the next day. After the guests have gone, Violetta wonders if Alfredo could actually be the man she could love. But she decides she wants freedom, though Alfredo’s voice, heard outside, argues in favour of romance.
ACT II Some months later Alfredo and Violetta are living in a country house, where he praises their contentment. But when the maid, Annina, reveals that Violetta has pawned her jewels to keep the house, Alfredo leaves for the city to settle matters at his own cost. Violetta comes looking for him and finds an invitation from Flora to a party that night. Violetta has
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no intention of going back to her old life, but trouble intrudes with the appearance of Alfredo’s father. Though impressed by Violetta’s ladylike manners, he demands she renounce his son: the scandal of Alfredo’s affair with her has threatened his daughter’s chances at making a good match. Violetta says she cannot, but Germont eventually convinces her. Alone, the desolate woman sends a message of acceptance to Flora and begins a farewell note to Alfredo. He enters suddenly, surprising her, and she can barely control herself as she reminds him of how deeply she loves him before rushing out. Now a servant hands Alfredo her farewell note as Germont returns to console his son with reminders of family life in Provence. But Alfredo, seeing Flora’s invitation, suspects Violetta has thrown him over for another lover. Furious, he determines to confront her at the party. At her soirée that evening, Flora learns from the Marquis that Violetta and Alfredo have parted, then clears the floor for hired entertainers – a band of fortune-telling Gypsies and some matadors who sing of Piquillo and his coy sweetheart. Soon Alfredo strides in, making bitter comments about love and gambling recklessly at cards. Violetta has arrived with Baron Douphol, who challenges Alfredo to a game and loses a small fortune to him. Everyone goes in to supper,
but Violetta has asked Alfredo to see her. Fearful of the Baron’s anger, she wants Alfredo to leave, but he misunderstands her apprehension and demands that she admit she loves Douphol. Crushed, she pretends she does. Now Alfredo calls in the others, denounces his former love and hurls his winnings at her feet. Germont enters in time to see this and denounces his son’s behaviour. The guests rebuke Alfredo and Douphol challenges him to a duel.
ACT III In Violetta’s bedroom six months later, Dr. Grenvil tells Annina her mistress has not long to live: tuberculosis has claimed her. Alone, Violetta rereads a letter from Germont saying the Baron was only wounded in his duel with Alfredo, who knows all and is on his way to beg her pardon. But Violetta senses it is too late. Paris is celebrating Mardi Gras and, after revelers pass outside, Annina rushes in to announce Alfredo. The lovers ecstatically plan to leave Paris forever. Germont enters with the doctor before Violetta is seized with a last resurgence of strength. She staggers and then falls dead at her lover’s feet.
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biographies TimOTHY Vernon
Harry Frehner
Conductor
Lighting Designer
Recipient of the Order of Canada and Opera Canada Ruby Award, Timothy Vernon is the Founding Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Victoria and Conductor Laureate of Orchestra London. His enterprising artistic vision for POV has included Capriccio and Daphne, (broadcast on CBC), and hallmark productions of Regina, Wozzeck, The Cunning Little Vixen and L’amore dei tre re. Orchestral guest appearances include the Calgary Philharmonic, L’Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal, La Chauve-Souris with Opéra de Montréal, Ariadne auf Naxos for Pacific Opera Victoria, the Lanaudiere Festival and the Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Toronto symphonies. He was last with Calgary Opera for Rigoletto (2007).
Harry Frehner has designed more than 40 productions for Calgary Opera dating back to 1992. In the past seven years, six of these productions have been nominated for Betty Mitchell Awards, of which two have won. He has lit productions for opera companies in Canada such as Edmonton Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Vancouver Opera, Opera Ontario, Manitoba Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria. In the US he has lit productions for San Diego Opera, Opera Colorado, Arizona Opera, Utah Opera. As well, his work has been seen across the country at such companies as The Banff Centre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Stratford and Shaw Festivals, Ballet BC and Neptune Theatre.
Glynis Leyshon Stage Director
Glynis Leyshon, former Artistic Director of Vancouver Playhouse and Victoria’s Belfrey Theatre, has directed for theatre and opera companies across the country. Productions include The Devil’s Disciple and Lady Be Good for the Shaw Festival, Falstaff and Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Lyra Ottawa and Rigoletto and the World Premiere of Game Misconduct for Vancouver Opera. Her productions for Pacific Opera Victoria include Der fliegende Holländer, The Rakes’ Progress, The Magic Flute and Albert Herring which will be remounted at Vancouver Opera this fall. For Alberta Theatre Projects she directed The Wizard of Oz while Die Fledermaus took her to Opera Hamilton. Her last productions for Calgary Opera were Rigoletto (2007) and Don Giovanni (2010).
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Ksenia Thurgood Choreographer
Ksenia Thurgood has performed across Canada, U.S. and Europe. Select choreography: Angels, Cabaret Escape (Dance Traces); Rock-it! (DND); Keep Us Together (Applause Inc.) as well as concert tours for recording artist Stephanie Thomson. Select theatre: The Wizard of Oz (ATP - Calgary Critic’s Choice Award nomination for her role as Dorothy); CATS, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (TC); Private Lives (NLT); He Said, She Said (Lunchbox Theatre) and most recently, she was writing & performing in Tragically Delicious (LLBS). Avenue Magazine nominee for ‘Top 40 Under 40,’ Ms. Thurgood is honoured to be working with Calgary Opera’s artists.
Cast listed in order of appearance
Lyne Fortin
William Joyner
Soprano
Tenor
Violetta
Alfredo
Lyne Fortin is one of Canada’s leading sopranos, performing with Opéra de Montréal in the title roles of Agrippina, Thais, La Traviata and Romeo et Juliette, Mimi in La Bohème, Leila in Les Pêcheurs des Perles, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Micaela in Carmen. Most recently she made her role debut as Carmen with Edmonton Opera, returned to Opéra de Montréal as “Stella Starlight” in Starmania and performed Alice Ford in Falstaff with Opéra de Québec. In Fall 2012, she performed Lady Macbeth for Pacific Opera Victoria. She was last with Calgary Opera for Don Giovanni (2010). ON_VAF_EOad_calg_2013.pdf
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William Joyner is a regular guest of opera companies and orchestras, including The Washington Opera, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Minnesota Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Florentine Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic and, in Europe, Teatro alla Scala, Rome Opera, Cagliari Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Opéra National de Lyon, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Teatro Massimo di Bellini di Catania, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Teatro Real de Madrid and Oper Frankfurt. He was last with 7:56 PM Calgary Opera for Aida (2011).
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biographies John Fanning
Andrew Love
Baritone
Baritone
Giorgio Germont
Baron Douphol
Recently invested as a Member of the Order of Canada, John Fanning is a veteran of nine seasons at the Metropolitan Opera; roles there include John Plake in Sly, co-starring with Placido Domingo, Mr. Astly in The Gambler, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier and the Four Villains in Les Contes D’Hoffmann. Recent credits include the title role in Casanova’s Homecoming (Minnesota Opera), Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (English National Opera), Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos (Houston Grand Opera), di Luna in Il Trovatore (Opéra de Québec), and Kr. Kolenaty in Makropoulos Case (Nantes/Angers in France). He was last with Calgary Opera for Gianni Schicchi (2011).
Calgary native Andrew Love “made a first-rate Papageno, his tonal robustness and skills in physical comedy and improvisation making his interpretation a delight”. (The Magic Flute, Highlands Opera Studio). Since graduating from University of Toronto’s Opera Division, Mr. Love has debuted in principal roles with Pacific Opera Victoria, (Dancaire in Carmen) Opera Hamilton, (Silvio in Pagliacci) and Baron Douphol in Opéra de Québec’s La Traviata and starred in the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro with Saskatoon Opera, and sang Marco in Gianni Schicchi with Calgary Opera. In 2013, Mr. Love portrays Lieutenant Fitzgibbons in Laura’s Cow, The Legend of Laura Secord, with Canadian Children’s Opera Company and is thrilled to be joining the cast of Les Miserables in Toronto.
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Clarence Frazer Baritone
Dr. Grenvil Baritone Clarence Frazer is praised for having a “silvery baritone that retains its silky texture through his entire range” (London Free Press) and is returning as a member of the 2012-13 Emerging Artist ensemble. Mr. Frazer completed his musical studies at The University of Western Ontario under the mentorship of Canadian Baritone Theodore Baerg. Recent roles: Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi, Daggoo in MobyDick, Alcindoro in La Bohème, Re di Scozia in Ariodante (Calgary Opera) and Escamillo in Carmen (Highlands Opera Studio). In addition to his opera and concert work Mr. Frazer won the inaugural Lois Marshall Voice Competition and was a finalist in Palm Beach Opera’s International Voice Competition. Mr. Frazer will be joining the Canadian Opera Company: Ensemble Studio for the 2013-14 season.
Tyler Fitzgerald Baritone
Marquise D’obigny Originally from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Baritone Tyler Fitzgerald holds a Bachelor’s degree in music from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Recent and upcoming performances include: Count Gill (Il Segreto di Susanna), Don Inigo (The Spanish Hour), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), and The Messiah (Peterborough Singers). Other roles include: Count (Le Nozze di Figaro), Papageno (Die Zauberflote), Pistola (Falstaff), Jimmy (Mahagonny Songspiel), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), King Melchoir (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Le Marquis (Dialogues des Carmelites). In 2012, Mr. Fitzgerald was the recipient of the Gladys Whitehead Scholarship for Voice, and in 2011 was the winner of the Lois Marshall Competition (London, Ont.)
Jennifer Sproule Mezzo-Soprano
Flora Alberta-based Jennifer Sproule is a proud recent Calgary Opera Emerging Artist alumna. Her roles in the company’s productions included Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Christian Keith in The Inventor and Dorabella in Così fan tutte. Her passion for both opera and classical music has led to a unique assortment of performances including an Opera Cruise traveling the Mediterranean, four Opera School-Tours, workshopping nine new operas, soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Civic Symphony, Bow Valley Chorus, and in 2014 one of two Canadians cast in The Friendship Oratorio, a new work being composed for the Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
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biographies Jessica Strong
Michael Marino
Soprano
Tenor
Annina
Gastone
Hailed as a confident and accomplished soprano, Ms. Strong performs this season with Calgary Opera, the St Lawrence String Quartet, CPO, and makes her debut at Carnegie Hall (The Song Continues). Ms. Strong has performed leading roles in The Rake’s Progess, La Traviata, Ariodante, Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, and Die Fledermaus. She is a grant recipient of the Vancouver Opera Guild, Solti Foundation, and Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation. She won the 2012 WMC McLellan Competition, was runner up in the 2012 Marilyn Horne Song Competition and was Semi Finalist in the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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Tenor Michael Marino is a London Ontario native who recently finished his first season as an Emerging Artist with Calgary Opera and is excited to be a returning member of the 2012-13 ensemble. He received his Masters in Performance and Literature at the University of Western Ontario under the mentorship of Canadian Baritone Theodore Baerg. His recent performances include Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, Tashtego in Moby-Dick, Lurcanio/Odoardo in Ariodante and performed in Calgary Opera’s school tour adaptation of The Magic Flute as Tamino/Monostatos. Past roles include Rodolfo (La Bohème), Romeo (Roméo et Juliette), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi ), Davey Palmer (Siren Song), and Sam Kaplan (Street Scene).
Donna Sharpe
Holly Clark
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Donna Sharpe enjoys working in both theatre and opera, and is grateful for the opportunities this work brings to her life. This is Ms. Sharpe’s 11th season with Calgary Opera, and her selected credits include Calgary Opera’s 2012/13 season, Aida, MobyDick, La Bohème, Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci, as well as assistant stage managing Don Giovanni, Little Women, The Barber of Seville, Ariadne auf Naxos, Faust, Tosca, Rigoletto, Frobisher, Dead Man Walking, and Sweeney Todd. Ms. Sharpe enjoys working with young artists in emerging artist programs and has stage-managed with Green Mountain Opera Festival (Vermont), Opera on the Avalon (Newfoundland), as well as the 2010 Winter Olympics (Whistler).
Nicole Bergen Assistant Stage Manager
Nicole Bergen works as a stage manager and assistant stage manager in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Recent shows include Don Pasquale and The Marriage of Figaro (SM, Saskatoon Opera), La Bohème, Moby-Dick, Aida, Ariodante, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon, and The Barber of Seville (ASM, Calgary Opera), and Little Women, Turn of the Screw and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ASM, The Banff Centre). This year’s shows include What Brought Us Here (SM, Calgary Opera), Otello, Falstaff, and La Traviata (ASM, Calgary Opera), and Carmen (SM, Saskatoon Opera). Her passions are reading, chocolate and cooking.
Holly Clark was born and raised in Calgary and is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Stage Management program. She has been very fortunate to be part of the Stage Management teams for Edmonton Opera and Calgary Opera as well as Opera NUOVA and the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. This summer she kept busy by Assistant Stage Managing the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show and Assistant Technical Directing the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. She has had a great time working on this show and hopes you enjoy it as much as she has.
MADDIE PAULING APPRENTICE Stage Manager
Maddie is a graduate of the Stage Management program at the U of A. Select opera credits include: Stage Manager for Romeo et Juliette and The Marriage of Figaro (Opera NUOVA), and Apprentice Stage Manager for The Abduction from the Seraglio and Fidelio (Edmonton Opera), Macbeth (Pacific Opera Victoria) and Otello and Falstaff (Calgary Opera). She has also been given the amazing opportunity to stage manage the Calgary Opera Emerging Artists in Susanna’s Secret/The Spanish Hour. She would like to thank her friends and family for their ongoing support.
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Calgary Opera is proud to announce the launch of a completely new and exciting venture, Opera in the Village, Canada’s first outdoor summer opera festival.
Get ready Calgary‌. the Pirates are coming!
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August 22, 23, 24 & 25 • 8pm August 24 & 25 • 2pm on RiverWalk Plaza in East Village
Opera festivals have long been part of the cultural fabric of Europe and more recently a staple of American summer fare. From Italy to Great Britain and Sweden, from Ash Lawn in Charlottesville, Virginia to Glimmerglass in Cooperstown, New York, the summer opera experience has taken hold of the imagination of festival goers. In Canada, symphonic and theatre festivals have a foothold with examples such as the Shaw Festival at Niagara on the Lake, Edmonton’s Symphony Under the Sky and Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach. But never in Canada has there been a melding of both music and theatre in one outdoor summer opera festival – until now. Get ready Calgary….the Pirates are coming!
For four days this August, Calgary’s East Village will be transformed with pageantry and performers when Calgary Opera presents The Pirates of Penzance in a 900-seat tent. It will be a celebration of culture arts and beautiful summer weather on the banks of the Bow. Whether you’re attending the mainstage performance, or just soaking up the atmosphere, enjoy the added bonus of festival movie nights, an opera camp for kids, impromptu opera performances, fight demonstrations, food trucks and more! Come aboard for The Pirates of Penzance, August 22, 23, 24 & 25 at 8pm and August 24 & 25 at 2pm on RiverWalk Plaza in East Village. Tickets available in the main floor lobby during intermission and online at calgaryopera.com.
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calgary philharmonic orchestra Music Director Roberto Minczuk FIRST VIOLINS
Diana Cohen - Concertmaster John Lowry - Associate Concertmaster Donovan Seidle - Assistant Concertmaster Janice Amsel Kathryn Stewart Corvino Alexandra Early Hyewon Kim Olga Kotova Theresa Kraucunas Minnie Min Kyung Kwon Bonnie Louie Mari Nihira Robert Penner Laura Reid
SECOND VIOLINS
Lorna Tsai * Stephanie Soltice-Johnson ** Judy Bessel Jeremy Gabbert Craig Hutchenreuther Theresa Lane Adriana Lebedovich Lenora Leggatt Steven J. Lubiarz Diane Valentine Richard Van de Geer
VIOLaS
John Thompson * Marcin Swoboda ** Arthur Bachmann Peter Blake Carl Boychuk Michael Bursey Katerina Grigoriu Julie Westgate
CELLI
Philip Hansen * Susan Foulkes ** Rafael Hoekman Joan Kent Thomas Megee Tom Mirhady David Morrissey Karen Youngquist
BASSES
Charles Garrett * Sheila Garrett ** Nick Bobas Matthew Heller Graeme Mudd Patricia Bereti Reid
PICCOLO
Gwen Klassen
OBOES
TROMBONES
James Scott * Michael Thomson **
Jean Landa * David Sussman **
BASS TROMBONE
ENGLISH HORN
TUBA
CLARINETS
TIMPANI
David Sussman
Steve Amsel * Jocelyn Colquhoun **
BASSOONS
Christopher Sales * Michael Hope **
HORNS
Robert McCosh * Jennifer Frank-Umana *** William Hopson ** Laurie Matiation ** Heather Wootton **
David Reid *
Michael Eastep * Alex Cohen *
PERCUSSION Tim Rawlings *
HARP
Tisha Murvihill *
LIBRARIAN Rob Grewcock
PERSONNEL MANAGER Heather Haydu Tim Rawlings - Assistant
TRUMPETS
Adam Zinatelli * Howard Engstrom **†
FLUTES
Sara Hahn * Gwen Klassen **
Supernumeraries Chris Baker Pedro Guerra Zuniga Nicole Dickinson Victoria Dickinson Rena Nathanail Jocelyn Selby
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* Principal ** Assistant Principal *** Associate Principal † Principal Emeritus Leave of Absence
Sandra Atkinson
MICHAEL SHANNON
AMY GLENN
Chorus Director
Repetiteur
CHORUS Repetiteur
calgary opera chorus SOPRANOS
Elaine Brown Gretchen Castronuovo Jessica Collins Acacia Doktorchik Jennifer Heidebrecht Val Hudson Melissa Jackson Lorraine Johns Nicole Smithanik Barb Thorson
MEZZOS
Lauren Anderson Rosemary Van Dyk Gail Ingelson Laura Styler Jones Jonquil Koddo Karen Letch Eswina Ngai Carolyn Dahl Rees Cathy Robinson Tania Sablatash*
TENORS
Rejean Campbell Matthew Dimitrijevic Don Edie David Fertal Han Friesen Michael Hardcastle Thomas McDonald Josh Paynter Tony Rino Ted Wall
BARITONE/BASS Les Antoniuk Nathan Barke Zenon Berg Mark Hahle Tayte Mitchell David Ng Marek Ratz Tim Volhoffer Jordan Wright Kurtis Wright
*Courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity
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emerging artists
Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist ensemble have had a very full second semester. Ensemble members covered roles in Falstaff, participated in masterclasses with Falstaff guest artists Gaétan Laperrière, James Westman, John Tessier, Lyne McMurtry, Norine Burgess, and Laura Whalen, were coached by Maestro Robert Dean and launched the Opera in Schools tour production of Hannaraptor. On February 23rd, Hannaraptor had two public performances, one presented by Cenovus for Kids Up Front, and the other a general performance for the public. The audience of young children were completely enraptured with Hanna’s struggle as she decided whether or not to keep her precious dinosaur fossil a secret while facing down the greedy Conrad. As the Emerging Artists finished up their tour, they plunged directly into La Traviata, some performing roles in the production while others cover roles and study under the Mainstage singers. Emerging Artists Jessica Strong, Adopt an Artist patrons Andrea Brussa Terence & Judith Dalgleish Diane Hobson Marian Williams
We acknowledge the generous support of the Dr. R.G. (Bud) Williams Emerging Artist Scholarship Fund
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Michael Marino, Tyler Fitzgerald, and Clarence Frazer are playing featured and supporting roles with Emerging Artist alumni Andrew Love and Jennifer Sproule also returning to our stage. To finish off the season, Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artists will present Susanna’s Secret & The Spanish Hour, (Il segreto di Susanna & L’heure espagnole) a lighthearted double-bill of mistaken identities and hilarious misunderstandings by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Maurice Ravel. Not only does the pairing of these two one-act operas allow our audiences to experience something they’d never see in our Mainstage series, but the combo of Italian and French operas provides the perfect learning tool for our young artists. Making his debut with Calgary Opera, Conductor Giuseppe Pietraroia brings his experience as Conductorin-Residence for Victoria Symphony and Pacific Opera Victoria to guide the Emerging Artist ensemble. Calgary Supported by Emerging Artist Development Program Sponsored by
Opera is also happy to welcome back designer Nick Blais who returns after designing the Opera in Schools production of The Magic Flute last season, as well as costume designer Julia Wasilewski. Robert Herriot, the director of Susanna’s Secret & The Spanish Hour needs no introduction to the Calgary audience. He has directed The Barber of Seville and La Bohème as well as The Brothers Grimm, Cinderella, and Beatrice and Benedict for the Emerging Artist ensemble, becoming a mainstay stage director of our company. And finally, Calgary Opera proudly welcomes back three Emerging Artist alumni for the Opera in the Village production of The Pirates of Penzance. Michelle Minke, Jennifer Sproule and Tyler Fitzgerald will perform alongside such Mainstage greats as Tracy Dahl, Brett Polegato and Colin Ainsworth.
2012-2013 Season Instructors Mel Kirby Program Coordinator and Vocal Coach Dawn Johnson Resident Voice Teacher Tracy Dahl Guest Voice Teacher Amy Glenn Accompanist and Vocal Coach Anita Miotti Yoga and Movement Instructor Tim Christison Professional Development Instructor Grant Reddick Acting Instructor JP Fournier Fight Instructor
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corporate and community support Community Supporters
Alberta Community Development Alberta Foundation for the Arts Alberta Lottery Fund Calgary Arts Development Canada Council for the Arts Canadian Heritage Southern Alberta Opera Development Foundation
Education Sponsor Talisman Energy
Community Outreach Sponsors Cenovus Energy
Viva Verdi Season Sponsor Husky Energy
Emerging Artist Development Program Sponsor Enbridge
Mainstage Media Sponsor The Calgary Herald
Performance & Program Supporters
BMO Financial Group Gowlings Imperial Oil Foundation KPMG Nexen Inc. PCL Construction Management Inc. RBC Financial Group through RBC Foundation
Community Opera What Brought Us Here Supporters
Calgary 2012 Cultural Capital of Canada The Calgary Foundation The Rozsa Foundation
Corporate Donors
Canadian Natural Resources FirstEnergy TransCanada
Opera in the Village presenting sponsor Imperial Oil Foundation
Opera in the Village supporters The Remarkable Experience Accelerator Program - Calgary Hotel Association and Calgary Arts Development Authority The City of Calgary’s Event Stimulus Program FRAM + Slokker Embassy BOSA Cenovus Tourism Calgary
Individual Donors Naming Benefactor Arrata Opera Centre Said Arrata
Major Gift Donors F. Richard Matthews Pyke Family
Voce Eterna Future Fund
We acknowledge the generous support of Dr. R.G. (Bud) Williams, Emerging Artist Scholarship Fund Brian Grasmuck
Media Sponsors
Global Calgary Jack FM Lite 96 660 News Up! 97.7 Pattison Outdoor Playhouse Publications Swerve
Consulting Professionals Dr. Phillip Van der Merwe – Company Physician
Official Wine Supplier Kensington Wine Market
Official Florist Peaseblossoms
Official Piano Technicians of the Arrata Opera Centre Robert Moffatt & Sons
2012/13 Event Supporters Giuseppe’s Italian Market Fresh Kitchen Catering Richmond Hill Wines Lina’s Italian Market Devour Catering Crickle Creek Coffee Company Crave Cookies and Cupcakes Epiphanie Chocolates
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Impresario Circle Platinum
Andrea Brussa * Judith & Terence Dalgleish * Stewart & Eileen Ford David & Beverley Foy Brian Grasmuck Diane Hobson * Marilyn Milavsky Don Swystun Sheila Wappel-McLean & Brent McLean Marian Williams * * Denotes Adopt-an-Artist Donor
Gold
Carol Adamson Tunde Agbi Dr. Ken Blair Carolyn Dahl Rees Lilien Dobish Don & Joanne Edie Evan Hazell Christel & Ben Johansson Dawn and Verne Johnson W.R. (Bob) McPhee Mary Rozsa de Coquet Kathy & Richard Sendall Monica Sloan & John Evison Anthony Smith James M. Stanford
Silver
Anonymous (1) Maureen & Graham Davies M.A. Duggan Jane & Michael Evans Dan & Susan Ezinga David & Diane Field Cos & Eleanor Gabriele David & Joyce Keith Kevin Konynenbelt Leo le Nobel Russell & Vickie McKinnnon Peter & Pat Menzies Geri & Alan Moon Patricia & J. Sherrold Moore James & Susan Reader C.A. Siebens TransCanada Corporation Helen M. Wells Deborah Yedlin & Martin Molyneaux
Bronze
Anonymous (3) George Baptist Jo Anne Britton Alan D. Castle The Alan D. Castle Endowment for the Arts Margaret & Robert Fraleigh Eldon & Carlie-Jean Godfrey Dick & Lois Haskayne Glenn Johanson & Margaret Gibson Susan Johnston Martin King & Jennifer Pemberton Juri & Helle Kraav Dr. Elena O’Connell Jim & Barbara Palmer Heather Peters Heinz & Cathey Schmitz Cynthia Sim
Core
Anonymous (2) Dr. Caroline Bain Irene M. Bakker Micheline Barbeau BKDI Architects Gwen & Ian Burgess Ioan Dobre and Claudia Cattaneo Walter & Gloria Chayka
Judge & Mrs. Mary Jane Cioni Helen & Mark Cluett Marilyn Conley Kirsten Cook-Zaba & Dwayne Zaba Brent Cooper Patricia Courtright David Daly Bill & Anne-Marie Duma David & Roxanne Dunlop Paul English & Marion Woodman Michael Fawcett Tibor & Livia Fekete Angie Gelinas Patricia Glenn and John Holgate Global Training Centre Niki & Craig Golinowski Joyce Gray David R. Haigh Stella Hall Michael & Carmen Hardcastle Lynda Hay & Larry Dand Judith Hepner Dr. Mark & Nancy Heule Henry & Johanna Heuver Richard D. & Phoebe Heyman Homes by Avi Carrol Jaques & Bob Loov Ryan Kalt Evelyn C. Kings Kimberley & Paul Lloyd Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Jan & Clare Lyall Brian P. Mahoney Roger & Sandra Mapp Dennis & Maureen McConaghy Lachlin & Julianne McKinnon Denise McMullen John & Susan McWilliams Helen Moore-Parkhouse Debbie & Jerry Olynuk Osten Victor Fund Bruce & Branca Pachkowski Jocelyn Daw & Bob Page Lorne & Beth Price Gail & Gerrard Protti Ruth & Garry Ramsden-Wood Diane Rebryna & Anast Demitt Agnes & Edward Rewucki Iris Richards
Maggie Rigaux Gordon Ritchie Marion Rogers Gordon W. Ross & Richard Cote Lyne & William Sattleger Gordon Sombrowski & Kevin Allen Tamra Stretch Arlene Strom & Colin Jackson Heather Treacy & Joe Nahman Kenneth Turnbull & Faye Larson Kees & Henriette Van Ittersum Dan & Molly Wares Chris Wells Andy & Krystyna Williamson Dr. Ian & Gunilla Winchester Janice Woodward Maurice & Anne Petrie Yacowar
Special Project Donors
Anonymous (1) Walter & Gloria Chayka Romie Christie Grant Clark & William Penner Myrna Clarke Morris & Ann Dancyger Maureen Eberts David & Beverly Foy Brian Grasmuck Margaret Graw Val Grossman Beth Hedva & Harold Finkleman Rebecca Hotchkiss Michael Kaumeyer Madeleine King Leo le Nobel Ann & Tony Luppino David Marrelli Robert Peters Betty Ann Smith Brenda Smith Nora Stewart Mitzie Wasyliw W. Brett Wilson
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Individual Donors $500 - $1,249
Anonymous (6) M. & P. Barnes David & Beverley Butler Edna M. Charchuk Ted & Yanka Cochrane Martha Cohen Andy Crichton & Michele Kalny Tony & Gillean Daffern Gizella Davis Mr. & Mrs. A.N. Edgington Tom & Dianne Ferguson Thomas J. Fishbourne John & Audrey Fry Chris Herman James Hughes Frank & Jeanette King Sandra & Jack Lee Robert & Linda Lesoway D. Keith MacDonald Neil McDermid Dan Meyer & Claire Bourges Helen Mitchell Janis & Bruce Morrison Jackie Palmer Anita Petersen Don & Betty Plewes Trina Quickfall Greta Raymond Rolling Mix Concrete Kelly Robinson Cam & Helga Schneider David Shefsiek & Blaine Hendsbee Lucinda M. Sheldon Richard & Shannon Tanner Deborah Taylor Rodney Touche Paul Vanderberg Jason Wordie Robert & Kathryn Worthingham
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Anonymous (5) John M. Andrews Karyn Leidal & John Armstrong G. Carson The Godards
Robert & Linda Heidemann David Hills Rizwan Hirjee Myra & Eric Knight P. Kornacki Derek & Nancy Lee John Martland Philip & Eleanor May Ron & Sylvia McIntosh Brian Mills & Susan Tyrrell Dr. Brian Norford Barry & Gail Pollock Sir Francis Price Roger & Pam Prior Elinor Rae Donna Riback Andrew Cook & Shannon Stevenson Greg Szuch Melanie Stapleton & Dale Voight Saida Vuk Penelope Weir Tatiana Willumsen Dr. L.J. Ray & Colleen Wilson Robert E. Woodrow Jerilyn Wright
$100 - $249
Anonymous (25) Jennifer Arko Lyne Audet David Baker Ms Barbara R. Beaton Rudy & Jeanette Berger Patricia A. Booker John Boreta A.J. Brown & R.B. Beaty Katri Bruen Marion R. Burrus Dr. & Mrs. D. Butts Barbara Cairney S. & M. Cameron Anita Carey Jean Clow Frances V. Cormack Bonnie Costello Greg Coupal Anne-Marie Crawford Isabella Crossfield Stan & Jean Denesuk
John & Mari Jo deWaal C. Morag Dornian Judy D. Dreeshen Denis & Pat Duke Edi J. Dygert Marva J. Ferguson Dr. Stephen & Miriam Field Barbara & Larry Fish Jean L. Fisher Wendelin Fraser Edette GagnĂŠ Ingrid Geppert John & Marilynne Gillespie Tom Goulding Ileen Hagen R. Harbich Dorothy Hawkes Kathy Hayward Ms Mary Lou Higgins David Hobill Gerrit & Carla Hos Justice Sandra Hunt McDonald Helen Isaac Tanya M. Jellicoe Brenda Kenny Sheila Kirkland Jane Lang Carolyn & Don Larsen Michael Lee Hing Angus & Theresa Leitch Dorothy M. Lomas Sandra Lucas Leslie J. McCawley Terry McColl Karen McCullough J.R. & Donna McDonald Catherine McGinley K. Millard Mrs. E. Milner Paddon Hughes Development Co. John & Jean Partridge A. Patterson Bernard Perron Justice Carolyn S. Phillips Erika Pochailo Phil & Arlene Ponting Maureen Poscente Drs. Carol & Joel Prager Marlene & Norm Raymond LA TRAVIATA 35
MAY 3, 7 & 9, 2013 at 7:30pm | MAY 5, 2013 at 2:00pm Performed by Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist ensemble at the Arrata Opera Centre
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Chere Reilly Gloria Riva Burdett Hector Rose Johanna Roskey Vera A. Ross Salopek Consulting Laura Scott Robert & Tamara Seiler Doris & Gerard Sheilan Barbara Shellian Brenda Smith Ken & Barbara Smith Penny Smith Doug Soeder Joanne Stalinski
Douglas & Laurie Strother Carolyn & David Tavender Margaret Taylor Margot & Jim Thomson Tony Tiberio Nancy Tousley Cameron Val & Gerry Ward Joyce Watson Caroline Weisgerber Keith Wellon Jan Williamson Marj & Patrick Windle Albert & Frieda Zagorsky (Mrs) Herrat Zahner
Memorials
In Memory of Alan, Debra, Donald & Mark Blayney - Jean Blayney In Loving Memory of Ilse Grasmuck In Memory of Mrs. Margot Helenurm In Memory of Tom & Karen Jones Marjorie, in memory of Edward McCarthy
Going to the theatre should be a great experience. Here are some tips on how to make your night memorable without making a scene of your own. the lines at intermission by pre-ordering your 1 Skip refreshments at any of our concessions. Make it true “High Def” by asking about infrared
2 listening devices and binoculars at Patron Services. Take an extra long limo – Ride Public Transit.
3 It’s a great way to avoid traffic before and after the show.
Giving Props... The Jube is proud to have Calgary Opera as one of its Resident Companies. With over four decades of stellar performances, Calgary Opera is committed to producing opera of the highest possible calibre and making their productions as accessible as possible in the community.
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2 1. Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist ensemble on the set of Hannaraptor.
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2. Emerging Artists sign autographs for children after the show. 3. Cenovus Energy volunteers prepare to hand out cookies to audience members.
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On February 23rd,
Cenvous Energy made it possible for Calgary Opera’s production of Hannaraptor to be presented free of charge to Kids Up Front. It was a great afternoon, with laughter and dinosaur cookies for kids and adults alike.
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