ArTISTS’ BIOGrAPHIeS
the production stage manager for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s Miss Saigon, which also toured to Toronto and Schenectady. Previous COC credits include Carmen, The Flying Dutchman, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fidelio, War and Peace, Eugene Onegin, Tosca, Don Carlos, La Traviata, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and all COC productions of the Ring Cycle. Ms Kowal studied theatre at Indiana University. STEPHEN B. HARGREAVES assistant Conductor
Stephen B. Hargreaves divides his professional work between conducting and solo performance. In the fall of 2011 he was assistant conductor for the COC’s Iphigenia in Tauris. Recently, he conducted Le nozze di Figaro from a replica of Mozart’s fortepiano with Opera Omaha, performed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Marion Philharmonic, and played the world premiere of Gordon Parmentier’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Green Bay Symphony. He has conducted for Lyrique-en-Mer/Festival de Belle-Île, Chicago Opera Theater, Pine Mountain Music Festival and Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Future engagements include playing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra and cover-conducting Aida with Glimmerglass Festival.
ALLISON GRANT assistant director
Allison Grant recently directed and choreographed Roméo et Juliette with Vancouver Opera. She has just returned from Theatre London where she choreographed and performed in The Great Gatsby. Other directing highlights include Die Zauberflöte (Sarasota Opera), Don Giovanni and Carmen (Opera Ontario), Così fan tutte (Vancouver Opera), L’italiana in Algeri (Opéra de Montréal), Smokey Joe’s Café (Stage West Calgary) and, Leslie Arden’s A Meeting of Minds (Canadian Stage). She was choreographer for the COC’s Queen of Spades, Dido and Aeneas, Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin. At Theatre Athena, where she was recently artistic director, she directed Master Class, Private Lives and the Canadian premiere of Itamar Moses’ Bach at Leipzig.
M – Mainstage Performances e – ensemble studio Performance, May 23
FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE
We are pleased to offer, for the convenience of all of our patrons, a pre-order system for intermission purchases. Our pre-order system is designed to decrease your wait time at the bar during intermission and we invite you to make use of it at every COC performance. Bars are located throughout the Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room’s many levels. Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall.
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