Operas & Arias: Gilbert & Sullivan!

OPERA & ARIAS AUGUST 24 & AUGUST 31, 2015

Gilbert & Sullivan! featuring UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE & members of the VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRA featuring UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE & members of the VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRA

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Gilbert & Sullivan!

AUGUST 24, 2 P.M. AUGUST 31, 7:30 P.M.

AUGUST 24, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 2 P.M.

HMS PINAFORE

Overture – We Sail the Ocean Blue UBC Opera Ensemble – Male Chorus

I’m Called Little Buttercup Mrs. Kripps

Shante van Horlick

Yeeun Lee

When I Was a Lad Sir Joseph Porter Christopher Gaze UBC Opera Ensemble

Fair Moon to Thee I Sing Captain Corcoran

Cameron Killick

The Hours Creep on Apace Josephine

Gwendolyn Yearwood

Never Mind the Why and Wherefore Captain Corcoran Sir Joseph Porter Josephine

Justin Chen Jack Foster Gwendolyn Yearwood

Christopher Gaze

Geoffrey Schellenberg Elizabeth Harris Jason Klippenstein Matthew McLellan Elizabeth Harris

Photo by David Blue

Programme and performers subject to change.

AUGUST 24, 2 P.M. AUGUST 31, 7:30 P.M.

AUGUST 24, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 2 P.M.

THE MIKADO

A Wandering Minstrel Nanki-Poo

Three Little Maids Yum-Yum Peep-Bo Pitti-Sing

Brent MacKenzie

Spencer Britten

Zoe Mix Caitlin Hill Shante van Horlick

Tamar Simon Melodie Corbett Yeeun Lee

The Sun Whose Rays Yum-Yum

Colleen Donnelly

Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day

Yum-Yum Pitti-Sing Nanki-Poo Pish-Tush

Zoe Mix Shante van Horlick Jeremiah Carag Duncan Watts-Grant

Here’s a How-De-Do Yum-Yum Nanki-Poo Ko-Ko

Melody Corbett Jeremiah Carag Jack Foster

On a Tree by a River Ko-Ko

Geoffrey Schellenberg

Tamar Simon Sawyer Craig Yeeun Lee Ian McCloy Jason Klippenstein Sawyer Craig Ian McCloy Matthew McLellan Cameron Killick

Finale – For He’s Gone and Married Yum-Yum UBC Opera Ensemble

———————————Intermission——————————— PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Oh Better Far to Live and Die Pirate King

Duncan Watts-Grant

Cameron Killick

Climbing Over Rocky Mountain / Stop, Ladies Pray / Oh, Is There Not One Maiden / Poor Wandering One Mabel Frederic Edith Kate Ladies’ Chorus

Elizabeth Harris Alireza Mojibian Gwendolyn Yearwood Melodie Corbett

I am the very Model of a Modern Major General Major General Christopher Gaze UBC Opera Ensemble

Keira Chapman Spencer Britten Caitlin Hill Colleen Donnelly

Christopher Gaze

Programme and performers subject to change.

AUGUST 24, 2 P.M. AUGUST 31, 7:30 P.M.

When You Had Left our Pirate Fold Ruth Frederic Pirate King

Stay, Frederic, Stay Mabel Frederic

Yeeun Lee Ian McCloy Cameron Killick

Yeeun Lee Spencer Britten Geoffrey Schellenberg

Keira Chapman Thomas Lamont

Tamar Simon Alireza Mojibian

When a Felon’s Not Engaged Sergeant Men’s Chorus

AUGUST 24, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 2 P.M.

Matthew McLellan

Duncan Watts-Grant

THE GONDOLIERS

We’re Called Gondolieri Marco Giuseppe

William Grossman Geoffrey Schellenberg

In Enterprise of Martial Kind Casilda Duchess Luiz Duke

I Stole the Prince Don Alhambra Casilda Luiz Duke Duchess

Then One of Us Gianetta Tessa Marco Giuseppe

Dance a Cachucha Gianetta Tessa Marco Giuseppe UBC Opera Chorus

Spencer Britten Jason Klippenstein

Mariah Mueller Gwendolyn Yearwood Ian McCloy Jack Foster

Isabella Halladay Shante van Horlick William Grossman Cameron Killick

Duncan Watts-Grant Mariah Mueller William Grossman Jack Foster Isabella Halladay

Jason Klippenstein Melodie Corbett Ian McCloy Cameron Killick Elizabeth Harris

Mariah Mueller Isabella Halladay Ian McCloy Justin Chen

Melodie Corbett Caitlin Hill Jeremiah Carag Alireza Mojibian

Zoe Mix Sawyer Craig William Grossman Jason Klippenstein

Keira Chapman Colleen Donnelly Spencer Britten Geoffrey Schellenberg

Please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices.

The use of cameras or recording devices in the theatre during the performance is strictly prohibited.

Programme and performers subject to change.

NANCY HERMISTON, Director and Soprano

Canadian-born lyric coloratura soprano Nancy Hermiston has performed throughout Europe and North America. Parallel to her extensive singing career, Miss Hermiston worked as a voice teacher, stage director, and Co-coordinator with the University of Toronto’s Opera and Performance Divisions. In 1995, she joined the University of British Columbia’s School of Music as the Head of the Voice and Opera Divisions, where she established the UBC Opera Ensemble. In 2004, Miss Hermiston was named the UBC University Marshal, and in 2008, UBC awarded her the Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance and Development in the Visual and Performing Arts. She was also honoured with a Killam Teaching Prize in 2010. In October 2011, she received an Opera Canada Rubie Award for her contributions to opera in Canada. Miss Hermiston is also a favourite guest for master classes throughout Canada, the United States, China and Germany. Her UBC Opera Ensemble regularly tours to the Czech Republic, Germany, Ontario, and throughout British Columbia. The Opera Ensemble gave their first performances in Beijing and Chengdu in May of 2009 and returned to Shanghai in 2010 for concerts at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Shanghai Normal University. In May 2011, the Ensemble returned to the Shanghai Conservatory for a production of Giulio Cesare. Most recently, Miss Hermiston appeared with the VOA as Stage Director for their 2012/13 Season’s Opening production of La Bohème and returned in 2015 to direct their production of Die Fledermaus. She will open the Vancouver Opera season in September, directing their production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, starring UBC Alumna, Simone Osborne. On December 30, 2013, Miss Hermiston was honoured with the Order of Canada.

LESLIE DALA, Conductor

Leslie Dala is Music Director of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Associate Conductor and Chorus Director for Vancouver Opera, and Music Director of the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. He has worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Opera Company, the Santa Fe Opera and l’Opera National du Rhin and is a frequent guest conductor with the UBC Opera Ensemble, the COSI Program in Sulmona Italy, and Soundstreams Canada. This past season Leslie conducted Vancouver Opera’s world premiere production of Stickboy by Neil Weisensel and Shane Koyczan; The Magic Flute for Edmonton Opera; Madama Butterfly for Saskatoon Opera and Domenic Argento’s Postcards from Morocco for the University of Toronto Opera Division. This upcoming season includes a concert in Toronto with soprano Adrianne Pieczonka featuring George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children; an 80th birthday gala concert celebrating iconic composer Steve Reich with the composer in attendance; the North American premiere of Philippe Boesmans’ opera Julie with Soundstreams and Canadian Stage Theatre; Carmina Burana, Messiah and St. Matthew Passion with the Vancouver Bach Choir; Madama Butterfly with Vancouver Opera and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the UBC Opera Ensemble.

UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE SINGERS MEN: Spencer Britten, Jeremiah Carag, Justin Chen, Jack Foster, William Grossman, Cameron Killick, Jason Klippenstein, Thomas Lamont, Brent MacKenzie, Ian McCloy, Matthew McLellan, Alireza Mojibian, Geoff Schellenberg, Duncan Watts-Grant WOMEN: Keira Chapman, Melodie Corbett, Sawyer Craig, Colleen Donnelly, Isabella Halladay, Elizabeth Harris, Caitlin Hill, Yeeun Lee, Zoe Mix, Mariah Mueller, Tamar Simon, Shante van Horlick, Gwen Yearwood

CHRISTOPHER GAZE, Host

Christopher is best known as the Founding Artistic Director of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. Born in England, he has appeared in dozens of film, TV and theatre productions during his multi-decade career in Great Britain and North America. He hosts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s ever popular Tea & Trumpets series and has hosted their annual Christmas concerts for over 20 years.

His many honours include Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal, Honorary Doctorates from UBC & SFU, the Mayor’s Arts Award for Theatre and the Order of British Columbia. Earlier this year, Christopher played Frosch in Die Fledermaus for Vancouver Opera, and he recently directed the world premiere of C.C. Humphreys’ Shakespeare’s Rebel, part of Bard’s 2015 season. Christopher plays a leading role in British Columbia as an advocate for the arts in general, and his passionate dedication to Bard on the Beach has fuelled its growth into the largest professional Shakespeare festival in Western Canada, with attendance of over 100,000.

BARD CREDITS

Pam Johnson – Scenery Designer Special thanks to: Amy McDougall, Heidi Wilkinson, Richard Hansen, Chris Engleman, Katie Rainsley

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA OPERA ENSEMBLE

was founded by Canadian lyric coloratura Nancy Hermiston in 1995. Beginning with a core of seven performers, Miss Hermiston has built the program to a 90-member company, performing three main productions at UBC every season, six Opera Tea Concerts, and several engagements with local community partners. New this year is an intimate event, in cooperation with the Peter Wall Institute and the UBC Centennial committee. In this series we explore how the magic happens on the concert and operatic stage. This is an opportunity to talk to singers, coaches, directors and conductors to see who the ‘Singer behind the Song’ really is and what goes in to making that ‘Song’ happen. The Ensemble’s mission is to educate young, gifted opera singers, preparing them for international careers. Past main stage productions have included Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Suor Angelica, La Bohème, Dido and Aeneas, The Merry Widow, The Bartered Bride, Manon, Eugene Onegin, Florence: Lady with the Lamp, Dream Healer, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Cendrillon, Albert Herring, the Western Canadian premiere of Harry Somers’ Louis Riel, The Crucible, Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), Rusalka, Così fan tutte, Dialogues des Carmélites, and Carmen. The 2013–2014 season presented Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann as well as Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen in the Old Auditorium, and in the Chan Centre, Nino Rota’s The Florentine Straw Hat, The Bartered Bride, Le Nozze di Figaro and La Traviata. UBC will be 100 years old in 2015/2016. The Opera Ensemble celebrates these 100 years by presenting Jules Massenet’s Manon, Johann Strauss’ A Night in Venice and Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As well they will tour to the Okanagan, Beijing, China, Germany and the Czech Republic to celebrate UBC’s Centenary. We hope you will join us in these celebrations!

VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRA

is one of only two professional opera orchestras in Canada and has been recognized as a formidable musical force. Formed in 1977, the Orchestra’s first performance was for the production of Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore, starring Joan Sutherland and conducted by Richard Bonynge. Several players who were in the pit for Le Roi de Lahore are still members of the VO Orchestra today. Since it was formed, the VO Orchestra has played more than a hundred opera productions, numerous stage productions, and many concerts. This season, members of the orchestra will play for Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker. The Orchestra has strong ties to the community: many of its players are professional educators and active freelance musicians in the Lower Mainland.

Collectively, they make an important contribution to the cultural life of our city.

VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRA

Angela Cavadas, 1st Violin, Concertmaster Patricia Armstrong, 2nd Violin Tawnya Popoff, Viola Rebecca Wenham, Cello Brian Arkell, Bass Brenda Fedoruk, Flute Erin Marks, Oboe Mary Backun, Clarinet Ingrid Chiang, Bassoon Laurel Spencer, French Horn Tom Shorthouse, Trumpet David Boothroyd, Keyboard Jim Littleford, Orchestra Manager

PRODUCTION TEAM

Musical Preparation of UBC Opera Ensemble: David Boothroyd Hair/Wigs: Elke Englicht Makeup: Carmen Garcia UBC Tech Crew: William Grossman, Duncan Watts-Grant, Geoffrey Schellenberg, Matthew McLellan

SPECIAL THANKS

The David Spencer Endowment/ Dr. Irving Guttman and Mr. Robert Dales/Theatre UBC/Vancouver Opera

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