The Magic Flute Program

Mozart

THE MAGIC FLUTE World Premiere New English Adaptation October 4 – 13, 2013

Esther Nelson, General & Artistic Director

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David Angus, Music Director

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John Conklin, Artistic Advisor

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Esther Nelson, General & Artistic Director

2013/14 A Season of All New Productions

Mozart

The Magic Flute

World Premiere, New English Adaptation

Oct. 4, 6, 9, 11, 13 | 2013 Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Shubert Theatre

Beeson

Lizzie Borden BLO Commission, A Chamber Version in Seven Scenes

Verdi

Bellini

New Production

New Production

Rigoletto

I Puritani

Mar. 14, 16, 19, 21, 23 | 2014

May 2, 4, 7, 9, 11 | 2014

Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Shubert Theatre

Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Shubert Theatre

Nov. 20, 22, 23, 24 | 2013 Opera Annex: The Castle at Park Plaza

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Welcome Welcome to the opening of Boston Lyric Opera’s new season, which begins with the world premiere of our new English adaptation of Mozart’s last opera, The Magic Flute, and continues with the world premiere of the BLO-commissioned chamber version of Jack Beeson’s riveting opera, Lizzie Borden, directed by the acclaimed Christopher Alden. Next March, we will present an all-new production of Verdi’s tragic Rigoletto and conclude the season with Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece I Puritani, starring internationally renowned soprano Sarah Coburn, who enjoyed major success in our recent production of Barber of Seville.

We start the season by celebrating the artistry and affection for opera found here in our great city by showcasing a Magic Flute cast with all Boston roots. We also celebrate our BLO Chorus and Orchestra, the creative talents in our local scene and costume shops, and our Boston-based music and production staff. We also welcome the return of BLO’s former Artistic Director, Leon Major, as Stage Director and our own John Conklin as Set Designer. Not a single note of Mozart’s brilliant score has been changed, and Music Director David Angus proudly leads our musical forces.

Our reimagined Magic Flute is the product of the creative teamwork of Leon, John, and lyricist Kelley Rourke. The popularity of Mozart’s music has spanned three centuries, but the symbolism and meaning behind the libretto is not as timeless.

Many stage and film directors have tried to breathe new life into the story by radically changing either the text or setting; in our adaptation, we try to interpret the basic meaning of the opera in a way that can be embraced by today’s audiences. The historian and author Dorothy Koenigsberger perceptively saw the opera as a “quest of the human soul for both inner harmony and enlightenment.” In his book Opera & Its Symbols, Robert Donington sees the opera as not only a masonic parable but as a “prolonged symbolization, in part deliberate and in part intuitive, of that search for wholeness.”

Our celebration goes beyond our remarkable artists and extends to you—our dedicated audience and supporters. Thank you for embarking upon our opera journey with us.

Esther Nelson General & Artistic Director

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Both locally and beyond, Boston Lyric Opera leads the way in celebrating the art of the voice through innovative programming and community engagement programs that are redefining the opera-going experience.

Under the vibrant leadership of General & Artistic Director Esther Nelson, BLO’s productions have been described by the magazine Musical America as “part of the national dialogue,” because of their role as entry-points for new audiences, and The New York Times observed that BLO “clearly intends [its productions] to catch the interest of operagoers around the country.”

This view is shared by the nearly 40,000 people who experience BLO performances, education and community engagement programs each year, through both the company’s dynamic, fully-staged productions at the Shubert Theatre and in found spaces throughout Boston, and through its extensive partnerships with leading cultural organizations such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Handel and Haydn Society; Boston Public Library; American Repertory Theatre; Boston Children’s Museum; Zoo New England, and many others. The Company’s involvement with Boston extends far beyond the walls of the performance hall, embracing the schools, churches, neighborhood centers and cultural destinations of our vastly diverse and exuberant community.

BLO’s wide-reaching education initiatives introduce opera to new audiences and new generations.

Thousands of high school students

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attend final dress rehearsals of BLO productions at the Shubert Theatre each year for free and the Company’s annual Open House introduces the art form to music lovers of all ages through free performances, backstage tours and musical activities. Through its in-school and after-school education programs for children and youth, BLO takes its place among a network of organizations that provide Boston and surrounding communities with services that are available nowhere else, and which help make Boston unique among U.S. cities.

In addition, BLO audiences can enjoy free pre-performance lectures, which highlight the productions and music, prior to Shubert Theatre performances.

BLO’s commitment to opera in all forms—classic masterworks to contemporary explorations—is evident in its programming, which remains faithful to tradition while trailblazing new ground, building audiences and creating new ways to enhance the opera-going experience. This commitment is further made manifest in the company’s unwavering support for the artists—both established and emerging—who bring the art of opera to you, our valued audiences. BLO provides each year’s class of Emerging Artists with extraordinary opportunities to develop their craft and grow. Many BLO Emerging Artists expand their careers to other world-leading stages, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera and Lyric Opera of

Chicago, while others choose to remain in Boston and influence future generations through performance and teaching.

Through your support and attendance, BLO is able to employ nearly 500 artists and creative professionals each year—vocalists, artisans, stagehands, costumers, and scenic designers—many of whom are members of our own community, and our neighbors. The Company is proud to play a significant role in the livelihood of these individuals and to provide meaningful employment for our vibrant arts community.

Since its founding in 1976, BLO has staged significant world premieres, U.S. premieres as well as co-commissions with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and co-productions with Scottish Opera, and continues to be a destination for some of the leading artists, conductors, directors and designers from around the world.

Prepare For Your Opera Experience Learn more about the production with Boston Lyric Opera’s pre-performance lectures.

Join us for engaging half-hour talks exploring how music and design interact to create dynamic and evocative performances.

Pre-performance lectures are free to ticketholders and are held in the Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Shubert Theatre one hour before every performance.

PROGRAM contents Welcome 1 Message from the Board Chair 4 Board 5 Interview: Director Leon Major & Designer John Conklin 6 BLO Presents The Magic Flute 8 Meet the Cast 10 Program Notes 13 Orchestra, Chorus & Production Staff 14 Donors 16 Emerging Artists 20 BLO in the Community 22 The Opera Gala 23 BLO Staff 36 Acknowledgements 37

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A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR Welcome to Boston Lyric Opera’s 37th Season—a season of all-new productions, inaugurated by a reimagined new English adaptation of The Magic Flute.

Join us as we celebrate the richness of voice in Boston with our talented cast, each of whom has a palpable tie to our great city. We are so fortunate to have brought together this marvelous ensemble of nationally and internationally recognized Boston singers.

Flute’s themes of self-discovery through journey, darkness and light, and, ultimately, fulfillment set the stage for our season.

Join me as opera delivers on its promise to raise awareness, lift up, and transport those on stage and, by extension, those of us in the audience willing to make the journey.

Steven P. Akin Chair, Board of Directors Boston Lyric Opera

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Board of Directors CHAIR

Steven P. Akin Vice-CHAIR &Treasurer

Frank Wisneski Clerk

Susan Jacobs GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Esther Nelson Ex Officio

Jane Akin David B. Arnold, Jr. Linda Cabot Black Miguel de Braganรงa JoAnne Walton Dickinson, Esq. Alan Dynner Susan D. Eastman Andrew Eisenberg Kenneth L. Freed Thomas D. Gill, Jr. Barbara Winter Glauber

Anneliese M. Henderson Mimi Hewlett Horace H. Irvine II Amelia Welt Katzen Maria J. Krokidas Stephen T. Kunian Lois A. Lampson Abigail B. Mason A. Neil Pappalardo E. Lee Perry William Pounds

Michael J. Puzo Alicia Cooney Quigley David W. Scudder Susan R. Shapiro David Shukis Ray Stata Christopher Tadgell Wat Tyler Tania Zouikin

James Ackerman Kyla Akin de Asla Ann Beha Debra Taylor Blair Richard M. Burnes, Jr. Ellen Cabot Lynn Dale Carol Deane Jessica Donohue Norma Greenberg Catherine E. Grein

Lila Berman Gross Amy Hunter Louise Johnson Ellen Kaplan William T. Kennedy L. Joseph LoDato Russell Lopez M. Lynne Markus Jeffrey Marshall Shari Noe Samuel Parkinson

Jane Pisciottoli Papa Irving H. Plotkin Susanne Potts Malcolm Rogers Wendy Shattuck Sandra A. Urie Mark Volpe Peter J. Wender Bert Zarins

Board of OVERSEERS CHAIR

Willa Bodman Vice-CHAIR

Lawrence St. Clair

EMERITI J.P. Barger Sherif A. Nada

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REIMAGINING THE MAGIC FLUTE:

A Conversation with Leon Major & John Conklin Leon Major

John Conklin

Having directed numerous operas throughout the Americas and Europe for companies including Washington, Glimmerglass and Vancouver Opera, Toronto-born Leon Major, former Artistic Director of Boston Lyric Opera (1998-2003), knew he had to rethink The Magic Flute to make it more relevant for today’s audiences.

“Based on my views,” says Major, “I think an opera in which the theme is to go through a bunch of trials and get into a private men’s club doesn’t have much appeal. There is also a lot in Flute that says women aren’t much without men. But the music is, without question, glorious.”

Instead of setting the opera in the 18th Century Egypt of Mozart and Schikaneder, Major, recalling a visit he made to the Yucatan years ago with his family, opted to put four young college students—Tamino, Pamina, Papageno and Monostatos—in the ruins of the Mayan civilization. One of the students, Tommy (aka Tamino), gets bitten by a snake and is transported to a hallucinatory state, with the others sharing in his fever dream.

“The mystery of those temples and that civilization has haunted me for a long time,” explains Major. “This seemed right for Flute with the interest in the sun, the moon, the calendar, and BLO was happy with us setting it there. We also have a wonderful cast of young people, so they look like college kids at the Mayan ruins. Thematically, the journey is one of self-discovery and what it means to be selfless. Love is not selfish and relationships can’t exist without extending yourself to each other.”

Major says that nary a note of the music has been changed but the second act was adapted in terms of dramaturgy to clarify this theme.

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Working with Major in his updating of Flute is Scenic Designer John Conklin, former Associate Artistic Director of Glimmerglass Opera (a post he held for 18 years), and Artistic Advisor of BLO for the past five years.

Conklin decidedly knows his way around a stage, and while he, too, once designed a production of The Magic Flute, his collaboration with Major and Kelley Rourke is a veritable eye-opener.

“It’s a piece that is almost constantly produced,” says Conklin, “but has, in varying degrees, proved problematic in terms of dramaturgy. What Kelley, Leon and I wanted to do was keep the basic story the same—an eternal quest of a young man and woman to find out who they are, what they should be, how they should act.”

Conklin says the dichotomy in the Mozart/ Schikaneder Flute is that the basic conflict is between everything good in the world (the sun, daylight) and all that is bad (the moon, night, greed, jealousy). “We shifted that to make the struggle between light and dark more generational, between parents and children; obedience (and indeed protection) on one hand,” the designer explains, “and the inevitable, necessary, but always painful separation of the parent and child on the other—a psychological severing that leads to maturity and independence through self knowledge.”

Conklin further likens the BLO Flute to The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy is transported from her world into another and where the characters from her real life join her in her hallucination before she returns home. “It’s Joseph Campbell’s hero quest,” exclaims Conklin. “It’s Parsifal, Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter and Huck Finn. We’re sending these kids onto a cosmic battlefield in which they have to survive. That,” he adds, “seems to be

inherent in Mozart. We’re trying to free the inner essence of the piece to a contemporary psyche—to be true to its deep humanity.”

As Conklin has designed both for opera and theater, with his work seen in houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, and on Broadway, he has a strong opinion on whether or not opera is becoming more of a director’s medium.

(their “night” side as it were) that makes them great—an ever renewable, ever contemporary source of energy.

But we lesser mortals working on any given piece need to work hard at tapping into this unconscious world (it came to them instinctively) as well as dealing with the surface aspects—developing stratagems to get into those minds and share that wealth with an audience.”

" We’re trying to free the inner essence of the piece to a contemporary psyche — to be true to its deep humanity" “Ah ... the perceived power of the director (and designers)—outrageously arrogant and dictatorial,” sighs Conklin, “a subject of endless and bitter debate. Many repeat the old mantra, ‘Just do what the composer wrote, or wanted.’ But when examined, that happy, neat (and ostensibly obvious) solution becomes a bit less clear. Where (or what) exactly is a piece like The Magic Flute? In the notes of the score—seemingly pretty exact, but still necessarily open to interpretation by singers and conductor?

In the words? How translated? How spoken? In any interpretive notes given by the composer?”

Adds Major: “I want the audience to come away asking questions about themselves, to have a good time and be stimulated emotionally and intellectually; to think about what they’re seeing and talk about it.

It’s not titillation, or an arena with gladiators. We’re trying to reach people on a level that makes them feel … and think.”

So Young Park Soprano So Young Park makes her BLO debut as Queen of the Night in the Company’s world premiere English adaptation of Mozart’s final opera.

The recipient of the New England Conservatory’s Presidential Scholarship, Ms. Park is no stranger to the role, having performed it at NEC and the Aspen Music Festival, catching the eyes—and ears—of the BLO Artistic Team. “The Queen of the Night is one of the iconic roles in opera,” says Nicholas Russell, BLO Director of Artistic Operations. “Both Esther Nelson and I heard Ms. Park in separate performances at NEC a year or so ago, resulting in an invitation to audition for the BLO panel. She offered one of the Queen arias and knocked it out of the stratospheric ball park. When the opportunity came to invite someone to sing the role for BLO, it was both rewarding and heartening to include this newcomer to Boston’s best in opera.

Our audiences are going to love her.”

“But may I present a somewhat startling rejoinder?” Conklin continues. “I’m not at all sure that great artists like Shakespeare or Mozart actually knew exactly what they were doing, because below their conscious level there lies a sea of enormously rich, complex, even contradictory feelings and expression surging to and fro. It is their subconscious

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Boston lyric opera Presents

Mozart

THE MAGIC FLUTE Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Conductor

World Premiere New English Adaptation

by Kelley Rourke, Leon Major and John Conklin

Stage Director

Performed in two acts with one 25-minute intermission.

Set Designer

Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Gala Opening Night Performance: October 4 This production is made possible through the generous support of Linda Cabot Black and Lynn Dale & Frank Wisneski.

Lyrics and Projected English Titles

Wigs and Makeup Designer

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA Orchestra

Performances:

Friday, October 4 at 8:00 p.m.

BOSTON LYRIC OPERA Chorus

Sunday, October 6 at 3:00 p.m.

David Angus

Sponsored by Linda Cabot Black

Leon Major

Sponsored by Willa & Taylor Bodman

John Conklin

Sponsored by Jane & Steven Akin

Nancy Leary

Sponsored by Maria Krokidas & Bruce Bullen

Mark Stanley

Sponsored by David & Pamela Donohue

Kelley Rourke

Sponsored by Janet & Irv Plotkin

Jason Allen

Sponsored by Maria Krokidas & Bruce Bullen

Sandra Kott Concertmaster

Sponsored by David & Marie Louise Scudder

Michelle Alexander Chorusmaster

Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Olney III

Rehearsal Coach/Accompanist

James Myers

Assistant Director

Jennifer Williams*

Production Stage Manager

Chelsea Antrim*

Wednesday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 13 at 3:00 p.m.

Performance running time approximately: 2 hours 45 minutes. citi performing arts Centerâ„ Shubert theatre 265 Tremont st., Boston

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CAST Tamino

Zach Borichevsky

Pamina

Deborah Selig*

Papageno

Andrew Garland

Monostatos

Neal Ferreira

Queen of the Night

So Young Park*

First Lady

Meredith Hansen

Second Lady

Michelle Trainor

Third Lady

Nicole Rodin

Sarastro

David Cushing

Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Ray Stata Sponsored by Horace H. Irvine II Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Miguel de Bragança ❦

Sponsored by Nick & Marjorie Greville 

Sponsored by Wendy Shattuck & Samuel Plimpton ❦

Sponsored by Alan & Lisa Dynner 

Sponsored by William & Helen Pounds 

Sponsored by The Susan A. Babson Fund for Emerging Artists, Part of the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation ❦

Sponsored by Ms. Tania Zouikin

Knights of the Sun

Sean-Paul Cormier Joshua Dennis Jesse Martin

First Spirit Messenger Second Spirit Messenger Third Spirit Messenger

David Kravitz  Omar Najmi* Isaac Bray*

First Boy Second Boy Third Boy

Thomas Potts*† Timothy O’brien*† Andrew Peruzzi*†

Papagena

Chelsea Basler*

Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. William T. Kennedy

Sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Eric & Elaine Bucher 

Sponsored by Barbara & Robert Glauber

* Boston Lyric Opera Debut  Boston Lyric Opera Emerging Artist ❦ Boston Lyric Opera Emerging Artist Alumnus † Member of St. Paul Choir School, Cambridge, MA Boston lyric opera The magic FluTe 2013 | 9

Artists Leon Major Director

Zach Borichevsky Tenor

BLO: Artistic Director (1998-2003), The Inspector, L’Italiana in Algeri, Roméo et Juliette

Tamino

Recent highlights: I Love to Eat, Roundhouse Theatre; Miss Havisham’s Fire, Il Tabarro, Maryland Opera Studio; Intermezzo, New York City Opera; Florencia en al Amazonas, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center; The Inspector, Wolf Trap Opera; Don Pasquale, Washington National Opera; Later the Same Evening, The Glimmerglass Festival

BLO: Nathaniel/Spalanzani, Les Contes d’Hoffmann Recent highlights: Roméo, Roméo et Juliette, Teatro Municipal de Santiago; Jonathan Dale, Silent Night, Opera Philadelphia Upcoming: Alfredo, La Traviata, Michigan Opera Theatre; Rodolfo, La Bohème, Arizona Opera, Finnish National Opera; Alfredo, La Traviata, Glyndebourne

Upcoming: A Masked Ball, Austin Lyric Opera Deborah Selig Soprano David Angus Conductor

Pamina

BLO: Music Director

BLO: Debut

Recent highlights: The Flying Dutchman, Cosi Fan Tutte, Clemency, Boston Lyric Opera; Concerts, London Philharmonic, L’Arlesiana, Wexford Festival; La Traviata, Dublin Lyric Opera; Opera Gala, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Denmark

Upcoming: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Kentucky Opera; Soloist, Poulenc’s Gloria, Harvard Pro Musica

Upcoming: Lizzie Borden, I Puritani, Boston Lyric Opera; Concert, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra; Don Giovanni, Dublin Lyric Opera; Recordings, London Philharmonic

Recent highlights: Musetta, La Bohème, Central City Opera; Pamina, The Magic Flute, Chautauqua Opera; Soloist, Handel’s Messiah, Rhode Island Philharmonic

ANDREW GARLAND Baritone Papageno

John Conklin Set Designer BLO: The Flying Dutchman, Così Fan Tutte, Madama Butterfly Recent Highlights: 2011 NEA Opera Honors recipient Upcoming: Rigoletto, I Puritani, Boston Lyric Opera; Ongoing Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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BLO: Starveling, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; El Dancairo, Carmen; Hermann, Les Contes d’Hoffmann Recent highlights: Schaunard, La Bohème, Seattle Opera; Count Almaviva, Le Nozze di Figaro, Dayton Opera; Dandini, La Cenerentola, Knoxville Opera; Young Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Cincinnati Opera Upcoming: future production, Boston Lyric Opera; Soloist Boston Baroque; I Pagliacci, Hawaii Opera Theatre

NEAL FERREIRA Tenor

NICOLE RODIN Mezzo-Soprano

Monostatos

Third Lady

BLO: Traveler, Clemency; Tancredi, The Inspector; Snout, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Spoletta, Tosca; Officer, Ariadne auf Naxos; Gran Sacerdote, Idomeneo; Monostatos, The Magic Flute; Spalanzani/Andres, Les contes d’Hoffmann

BLO: Bobachino,The Inspector; Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly

Recent highlights: Don Basilio/Don Curzio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Syracuse Opera; Borsa, Rigoletto, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus, Virginia Opera

Recent highlights: Giovanna, Rigoletto, Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Pittsburgh Opera; Mercédès, Carmen, Central City Opera; Cherubino cover, Le Nozze di Figaro, Sante Fe Opera

Upcoming: Spoletta, Tosca, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

Upcoming: Third Lady, The Magic Flute; Ruth, Dark Sisters, English Teacher/Maid 3, Paul’s Case; Aglaonice, Orphee, Pittsburgh Opera

SO YOUNG PARK Soprano

DAVID CUSHING Bass-Baritone

The Queen of the Night

Sarastro

BLO: Debut

BLO: Don Basilio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Adolfo, The Inspector; The Bonze, Madama Butterfly

Recent highlights: Lisetta, La Gazetta, Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute; Cupid, Orfeo, New England Conservatory; Virtu, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Aspen Music Festival

Recent highlights: Dulcamara, L’Elisir d’Amore, Opera North; The Great Gatsby, Emmanuel Music; Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera Tampa Upcoming: Monterone, Rigoletto, and future season productions, Boston Lyric Opera; The Speaker, The Magic Flute, Opera Tampa

MEREDITH HANSEN Soprano First Lady BLO: Beatrice,The Inspector; Soloist, Gala 2012; Gretel, Hansel and Gretel

DAVID KRAVITZ Baritone

Recent highlights: Woglinde cover, Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold, Metropolitan Opera; Musetta, La Bohème, Cedar Rapids Opera

BLO: Marchese d’Obigny, La Traviata; Ossipo, The Inspector; Abraham, Clemency

Upcoming: future production, Boston Lyric Opera; second season on roster of The Metropolitan Opera

MICHELLE TRAINOR Soprano Second Lady

First Spirit Messenger

Recent highlights: Davis Miller, Approaching Ali, Washington National Opera; Captain Balstrode, Peter Grimes, Chautauqua Opera; Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby, Emmanuel Music Upcoming: Fredrik Egerman, A Little Night Music, Emmanuel Music; United Nations, Death and the Powers, Dallas Opera; Marullo, Rigoletto, and future season productions, Boston Lyric Opera

BLO: Hagar, Clemency; Bombalina, The Inspector; Lady in Waiting, Macbeth Recent highlights: Soloist, Boston Landmarks Orchestra; Soloist, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Haffner Sinfonietta; Soloist, Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Carnegie Hall Upcoming: I Puritani Signature Series, Boston Lyric Opera

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Artists OMAR NAJMI Tenor

Nancy Leary Costume Designer

Second Spirit Messenger

BLO: Macbeth, Clemency

BLO: Debut

Recent highlights: Virginia Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Chautauqua Opera, Mobile Opera, Juilliard Opera, and Boston Musica Viva

Recent: St. Brioche, The Merry Widow, Opera Providence; Father Confessor, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Boston University Opera Institute; Don Curzio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera North Upcoming: Reverend Harrington, Lizzie Borden; Borsa, Rigoletto; Bruno, I Puritani, Boston Lyric Opera

Jason Allen Wigs and Makeup Designer BLO: Resident Designer since 2003 Recent Highlights: Doubt, Minnesota Opera; The Barber of Seville, Mill City Summer Opera; Hippie Chic, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

ISAAC BRAY Baritone third Spirit Messenger BLO: Debut

Upcoming: The Nutcracker, The Boston Ballet; The Dream of Valentino, Minnesota Opera

Recent highlights: Fiorello, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Sam, Our Town, Central City Opera; Owen Wingrave, Owen Wingrave, Boston University Opera Institute

Mark Stanley Lighting Designer

Upcoming: Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, Riolobo, Florencia en al Amazonas, Soloist, Voices by Ezra Laderman, Boston University Opera Institute

CHELSEA BASLER Soprano Papagena BLO: Debut Recent highlights: Josephine, HMS Pinafore, Liu, Turandot, Opera Sarasota Upcoming: Margret, Lizzie Borden, Countess Ceprano, Rigoletto, Enrichetta, I Puritani, Boston Lyric Opera

THOMAS POTTS TIMOTHY O’BRIEN ANDREW PERUZZI

Understudied by:

Scott Czerwinski Dmitri Charlot Mark Flynn

BLO: Debut Masters Potts, O’Brien, Peruzzi, Czerwinski, Charlot and Flynn appear courtesy of St. Paul Choir School, Cambridge, MA and Music Director John Robinson.

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BLO: The Inspector Recent highlights: Resident Lighting Designer, New York City Ballet; Head of Lighting and Design Program, Boston University; Lighting Designer, New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Tulsa Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Virginia Opera, New Orleans Opera, Kentucky Opera; Board Member, Hemsley Lighting Programs Upcoming: Lighting Design for world premiere ballet, La Scala; La Descente d’Orphee Aux Enfers, Gotham Chamber Opera; World premiere ballet, New York City Ballet

Kelley Rourke Lyrics and Projected English Titles BLO: Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Recent highlights: English adaptations of King for a Day, The Glimmerglass Festival and The Elixir of Love, English National Opera; libretti for Our Basic Nature, American Opera Projects and Nautilus Music-Theatre; Natural Systems, New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall Upcoming: New English adaptations of The Magic Flute, Washington National Opera and Ariadne in Naxos, The Glimmerglass Festival

PROGRAM NOTES: INTO THE LABYRINTH Synopsis Four university students are on an archaeology visit to some Mayan ruins. One of them is bitten by a snake, and as the venom enters his veins he begins to hallucinate, the power of his altered state drawing his companions into his dream. They find themselves in the midst of a cosmic battle between the forces of night (The Queen of the Night) and of the day (Sarastro). Both seek absolute power and control of their daughter Pamina and both attempt to enlist Tamino to their side. Tamino desperately seeks to be united with Pamina (and she with him). His companion Papageno also desperately seeks a wife—any wife—while Monostatos is consumed with a violent desire for Pamina, who rejects him.

The Labyrinth opens in front of them all and they, guided by Spirit forces, enter a mysterious world of sometimes painful self-discovery. Along this journey there are mighty battles, attempted seductions, temptations, suicides, comic encounters, wrenching confrontations and finally, salvation through music.

“To look for a lost collar button is not a true quest; to go in quest means to look for something of which one has, as yet, no experience; one can imagine what it will be like but whether one’s picture is true or false will be known only when one has found it. Animals, therefore, do not go on quests. They hunt for food and drink or a mate, but the object of their search is determined by what they already are and its purpose is to restore a disturbed equilibrium; they have no choice in the matter. But man is a history-making creature for whom the future is always open; human “nature” is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. For man, the present is not real, but valuable. He can neither repeat the past exactly—every moment is unique—nor leave it behind—at every moment he adds to and thereby modifies all that has previously happened to him.”

—W.H. Auden

“If fairy tales and folklore are in fact repositories of basic human desires and terrors, then it is not surprising that The Magic Flute has also been subject to archetypal interpretations that rely solely on its fairy tale character but go beyond simply labeling it as that literary subgenre.

One such reading is a Jungian interpretation of the opera as a narrative about the formation of a complete human soul, whose feminine (Pamina, anima) and masculine (Tamino, animus) sides find and complete one another. In this reading, the Queen of the Night is the “devouring mother,” Monostatos the carnal underbelly of masculinity, and Sarastro the Self who has transcended the flesh—the state of being towards which initiated beings frequently aspire.”

—Mary Hunter, Mozart’s Operas “Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labryinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.”

—Joseph Campbell

Costume sketches for The Magic Flute characters by Nancy Leary

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Boston lyric opera Orchestra FIRST VIOLINS

Sandra Kott Concertmaster Colin Davis Sue Rabut Natalie Favaloro Gerald Mordis Pattison Story Heidi Braun-Hill Stacey Alden SECOND VIOLINS

Annie Rabbat Principal Jodi Hagen Lena Wong Robert Curtis Cynthia Cummings Rohan Gregory

VIOLAS

Kenneth Stalberg Principal David Feltner Donna Jerome Abigail Cross CELLOS

Loewi Lin Principal Mark Simcox Jan Pfeiffer-Rios Melanie Dyball BASSES

Robert Lynam Principal Barry Boettger

FLUTES

HORNS

PICCOLO

TRUMPETS

Lynda Toote Principal Iva Milch Iva Milch OBOES

Nancy Dimock Principal Lynda Jacquin CLARINETS/ BASSET HORNS

Kevin Owen Principal Dirk Hillyer Bruce Hall Principal Jesse Levine TROMBONES

Robert Couture Principal Hans Bohn Donald Robinson

Jan Halloran Principal Steve Jackson

TIMPANI

BASSOONS

KEYBOARD

TENORS

BASSES

Donald Bravo Principal Elah Grandel

Jeffrey Fischer Principal James Myers

Boston lyric opera Chorus Michelle Alexander Chorusmaster SOPRANOS

Katrina Holden Eunhee Kang Kathryn McKellar Dana Schnitzer Jacquelyn Vina

ALTOS

Heather Gallagher Amy Oraftik Julia Snowden Amanda Tarver

Brendan Buckley Chris Maher Thomas Osterling Fred VanNess

Jeremy Collier Fred Furnari Taylor Horner John Whittlesey Ron Williams

Production staff Chelsea Antrim Production Stage Manager Justin Hamblen Assistant Stage Manager Taylor Ruge Assistant Stage Manager Lauren Wong Production Assistant B. Alix Lopes Production Electrician Jenny Ciaffone Assistant Production Electrician Mike Condon Assistant Production Electrician Justin Brady Electrics Trainee Patrick Glynn Production Properties / Properties Supervisor Laurie Picot Properties Trainee Jeremy Smith Production Carpenter

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Justin Colantuoni Assistant Production Carpenter Bryan Salmon Carpentry Trainee James R. McCartney Production Audio Dianna Reardon Wardrobe Supervisor Bailey Costa Assistant Lighting Designer Emily Bearce Lighting Design Assistant Kayleigha Zawacki Lighting Design Assistant Kirk Cambridge Del Pesche Wig/Makeup Artist Rachel Padula-Shufelt Wig/Makeup Artist Daniel McGaha Surtitle Operator Kate Ellingson Music Librarian

The perfect night grows from a seed of an idea.

BRAV O BLO

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Thank You to our 2013/14 Donors We are honored to recognize our donors who generously support the mission of Boston Lyric Opera to build curiosity, enthusiasm, and support for opera by creating musically and theatrically compelling productions, events, and educational resources for our community and beyond. We are deeply grateful for the following contributions made to Boston Lyric Opera between September 2012—2013.

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Boston Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their generous support of BLO’s productions and programs.

This list includes contributions and pledges made through September 20, 2013.

Crescendo Members ($100,000 and above)

Anonymous Barr Foundation and Klarman Family Foundation Capacity Building Initiative The Calderwood Charitable Foundation Seyfarth Shaw LLP Fioritura Members ($66,667 to $99,999)

Mattina R. Proctor Foundation

Vivace Members ($33,333 to $66,666)

Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Massachusetts Cultural Council

Presto Members ($25,000 to $33,332)

Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation National Endowment for the Arts

Con Brio Members ($15,000 to $24,999)

Harold Alfond Foundation Medical Information Technology Inc.

Allegro Members ($10,000 to $14,999)

The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists, part of The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation BNY Mellon Boston Private Bank & Trust Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation

Adagio Members ($5,000 to $9,999)

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Neiman Marcus Boston Sovereign/Santander Bank

Grazioso Members ($3,000 to $4,999) Amphion Foundation Corning Corporation Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Inc. Bravissimo Members (2,000 to $2,999)

Anchor Capital Advisors Cabot Corporation OPERA America

Institutional partners Boston Lyric Opera’s programs are funded, in part, by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Individual donors Crescendo ($100,000 and above) Anonymous Jane and Steven Akin*† Dorothy and David Arnold*†§ Barr Foundation† Linda Cabot Black*†§ Willa and Taylor Bodman* The Calderwood Charitable Foundation Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski* Wayne Davis and Ann Merrifield* Mr. and Mrs. Miguel de Bragança* Jody and Tom Gill*† Horace H. Irvine II*§ Pamela S. Kunkemueller†§ Paul and Sandra Montrone† David and Marie Louise Scudder*†§ Seyfarth Shaw LLP Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton* Fioritura ($66,666 to $99,999) Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. and Lisa Dynner* Mattina R. Proctor Foundation E. Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry* Susan R. and L. Dennis Shapiro* Vivace ($33,333 to $66,665) Anonymous Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Gerard and Sherryl Cohen† Mr. John Conklin Ted Cutler Faith and Joseph W. Tiberio Foundation† Cerise Lim Jacobs, for Charles Susan W. Jacobs*† Butler and Lois Lampson* Massachusetts Cultural Council Mr. and Mrs. Neil Pappalardo* Alicia Cooney Quigley and Stephen Quigley*§ Mr. David Shukis* Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stata*† Lady Juliet and Dr. Christopher Tadgell* Ms. Tania Zouikin* Presto ($25,000 to $33,332) Timothy and Rebecca Blodgett Nonnie and Rick Burnes* Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Fay Chandler Karen Johansen and Gardner Hendrie Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. The Klarman Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Marshall* National Endowment for the Arts Kenneth Perry‡ William and Helen Pounds* Mr. and Mrs. Michael Puzo* Mr. and Mrs. Wat H. Tyler* Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation Con Brio Members ($15,000 to $24,999) Anonymous Bank of America Ms. Ann Beha and Mr. Robert A. Radloff* Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Boston Private Bank & Trust Company Maria Krokidas and Bruce Bullen*† Robert and Susan Eastman*†§ Harold Alfond Foundation Tom and Anneliese Henderson*† Medical Information Technology Inc. Anne M. Morgan

OPERA America Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Sandra A. Urie and Frank F. Herron*† Allegro Members ($10,000 to $14,999) Anonymous Sam and Nancy Altschuler Jim and Chris Barker Baupost Group L.L.C. BNY Mellon Dr. and Mrs. Eric and Elaine Bucher† Christine Clifford and Dean Williams Dr. Charles C. Dickinson III and JoAnne Walton Dickinson* Mr. and Mrs. Timothy and Jessica Donohue* Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation Mr. Kenneth L. Freed* Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Grein, Jr.*§ Mimi and Roger Hewlett§ Jane’s Trust In memory of Stevie Giacalone Ellen and Robert S. Kaplan*†§ Ms. Amelia Katzen*† Stephen and Lois Kunian*† Karen Levy Ms. Abigail Mason* Dr. Maura McGrane Mr. and Mrs. Richard Olney III Janet and Irv Plotkin*† John and Susanne Potts*† Dr. Douglas Reeves and Amy Feind Reeves Mr. Michael Shanahan Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists part of the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Adagio Members ($5,000 to $9,999) Anonymous (2) The Acorn Foundation In Honor of Jane and Steven Akin Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. de Asla* Ms. Joan Bok Mr. and Mrs. John Bradley Ms. Ellen Cabot* Judge and Mrs. Levin H. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Linzee Coolidge John H. Deknatel and Carol M. Taylor Dr. Nicholas J. DiMauro William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher Mr. David Cole-Rous and Ms. Norma Greenberg *§ Nick and Marjorie Greville Lila Gross* Mr. and Mrs. Don and Pat Hillman Ms. Louise Johnson* Holly and Bruce Johnstone In Honor on of Jane and Steven Akin Mr. and Mrs. William T. Kennedy*† Joe and Pam LoDato*†§ Andrew Sherman and Russ Lopez * Ms. M. Lynne Markus*† Ms. Faith Moore Gregory E. Moore and Wynne W. Szeto Judith K. Marquis and Keith F. Nelson Esther Nelson and Bernd Ulken Shari and Christopher Noe*† Mr. and Mrs. John O’Brien Dr. Kurt D. Gress and Mr. Samuel Y. Parkinson* Mr. Winfield Perry In Memory of Shirley Perry Dr. and Mrs. John William Poduska, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John Remondi

Orfeo Society—named for the father of song—and Friends of BLO make up BLO’s core community of supporters.

Founded on a mutual love for opera, members share a passion for masterful works of art and receive exclusive access to a range of benefits that enrich the operatic experience.

BLO gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who support artistic productions as well as youth, education and community initiatives.

This list includes gifts and pledges made to the Annual Fund, restricted funds and event sponsorships through September 2013.

For more information or to become a member of the Orfeo Society or Friends of BLO, please call Sarah Blume at 617.542.4912 x228.

Dr. Jordan S. Ruboy§‡ Sovereign Bank Larry and Beverly St. Clair*† Peter J. Wender*§ Drs. Bertram and Laima Zarins* Grazioso ($3,000 to $4,999) Anonymous Widgie and Peter Aldrich Mr. Frederic Alper and Donna Mager Charles and Christina Bascom Mr. Martin S. Berman In Honor of Lila Gross Bob and Karen Bettacchi Mr. Gregory E. Bulger Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cabot Corning Corporation Mr. Fred Daum Jonathan and Margot Davis Christian Courtney Draz Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Inc. Ms. Winifred F. Ewing Mr. and Mrs. Ron Feinstein Ron and Kathy Groves Graham and Ann Gund Mr. Joseph Hammer Mr. and Mrs. Morton Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hood Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Anita Loscalzo Mary and Sherif Nada* D. Cosmo and Jane P. Papa* William and Lia Poorvu Robert and Elizabeth Pozen Mike and Rusty Rolland Allison Kay Ryder Lise and Myles Striar Tee Taggart and Jack Turner Mrs. Donald Taylor Mr. Richard Trant Jeannie Ackerman Curhan and Joseph C. Williams Dr. Robert Walsh and Lydia Kenton Walsh

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Individual donors Bravissimo ($2,000 to $2,999) Anonymous (2) Anchor Capital Advisors John and Rosemary Ashby George and Hillery Ballantyne Bank of New York Mellon Ronald and Ellen Brown Cabot Corporation Harold Carroll Nancy and Laury Coolidge Mr. and Mrs. Tim and Lisa Fulham Julie and Bayard Henry Arthur and Eloise Hodges Mr. William Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Lou and Sue Jannetty Mr. Ryan Jimenez Khaled Khalil Dr. Maydee G. Lande In Memory of her Father Pam Lassiter Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Mark and Caroline Murphy The Honorable and Mrs. Lawrence Perera Stephen and Geraldine Ricci Dr. and Mrs. Edward Roberts Mr. Max Russell Nicholas G. Russell Lisa Geissenhainer Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Maximilian Steinmann Edward H. Tate II Encore ($1,000 to $1,999) Anonymous (3) Richard and Donna Anderson Sarah E. Ashby Mr. and Mrs. David Bakalar Michael Barza and Judith Robinson Dr. Susan Bennett and Dr. Gerald Pier Bruce Bauman and Denise Selden Bauman Alan Blume and Margaret Scranton-Blume Dorothy and Hale Bradt Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bressler Mrs. Edmund Cabot Ms. Kathleen McGirr and Mr. Keith Carlson Chris and Lynne Chiodo Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn Wendy Driscoll and Thomas Driscoll Mr. Frazor Edmondson Andrew L. Eisenberg* Endurance Sean and Candace Fitzpatrick In Honor of Sharon Fitzpatrick Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Franko Mr. and Mrs. M. Dozier Gardner Lena and Ronald Goldberg Drs. John and Olga Guttag Deborah A. Hawkins Ms. Nancy Herndon Stephen Honig and Laura Unflat Eva R. Karger§ Mr. and Mrs. John Kucharski Richard and Mary Jane Lewontin Mr. Holt Massey and Ms. Sandra Ourusoff Bruce Edson McLean Dr. Lyle and Anne Micheli Newell and Betty Hale Fund of Greater Worcester Melissa and David Norton Jack Osgood Mr. Richard Page Mr. Anthony Pangaro

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Barbara Goodwin Papesch In Honor of Sarah Blume Ann B. Goodman and Arthur B. Pardee Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Perkins, Jr. Finley and Patricia Perry Ms. Ute Prevost Melinda and James Rabb Mr. Malcolm Rogers * Donald and Abby Rosenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Shafir Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Scheer John and Ruth Schey Mr. Robert and Ms. Natalie Schlundt Dr. and Mrs. R. Michael Scott Mrs. William Sweet Ms. Nellie Taft‡ Ms. Melissa Tully Ensemble ($500 to $999) Anonymous (3) Ms. Carol Ackerman Shoma Aditya and Constantin von Wentzel Mr. Mark Alcaide William and Lindy Appleton Mr. Cary Armistead Leonard and Jane Bernstein Mr. David Berry Mr. Steven Biondolillo Mr. Russell Berg Nina and Donald Berk Eric and Trimble Augur Bluman John and Irene Briedis Pam and Lee Bromberg Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brunnock Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Buckler Mr. Thomas Burger Jack Burke and Barbara Stern Ann and Bob Buxbaum Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Chigier Mr. and Mrs. John Coburn Mr. Eugene Cox Ms. Sally Currier Gene and Lloyd Dahmen Mr. James DeVeer Willis and Zach Durant-Emmons Eaton Vance Mr. John Fallon Howard and Dorothy Fairweather Michael S. Flier and David E. Trueblood Mr. and Mrs. Markus and Natasha Frank Ms. Anna Gabrieli Mr. Edward N. Gadsby Mr. and Mrs. Angel Garcia Ms. Martha Gentry Joan and Francis Gicca Dr. Deborah Gobetz Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Joan Goldberg Dr. David Golan and Dr. Laura Green Luba Greenwood Mr. and Mrs. James J. Harper Bette Ann Harris Mr. Scott D. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Bill and Cile Hicks Mr. Henry B. Hoover, Jr. Mr. Emil Horowitz Fred and Caroline Hoppin Dr. Douglas Horst and Maureen Phillips Mr. Ted and the Rev. Cannon Cynthia P. Hubbard Mr. and Mrs. Hugh and Kimberly Bennett

Doris and Howard Hunter Mr. Howell Jackson and Ms. Elizabeth Foote Mr. George Jurkowich Mr. and Mrs. Karim Milling Kinard Yuriko Kuwabara and Sunny Dzik William B. Lawrence III† Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lerner Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Dr. Janina Longtine In Honor of Ann Beha Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Karin Lieberman Mr. and Mrs. Ham and Michelle Lord In Honor of Willa C. Bodman Mr. Anthony S. Lucas Rumena Manolova and Alexander Senchak Mr. Ron Marcelo Mary and Michael McConnell Mr. and Mrs. Don McLagan Peter McGrath Ms. Karen McShane Ms. Margaret Meo Houlahan Mr. Domenico Mastrototaro§ Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Paine Metcalf Dr. Harold Michlewitz & Ms. Dina Celeste Marshall Dr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Moore Dr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Murray In Memory of Shirley Perry Ms. Marilyn Myers Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Robert and Carolyn Osteen Mr. William Overholt Thomas Peters and Susan Sargent Eric and Jane Philippi Dr. Joseph Plaud Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan and Lois Pond James and Jeannette Post Bruno Psujek and Karen Druffel Mrs. Adrienne Rabkin Mr. Heaton Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Vincent and Robin Rougeau Mark and Lori Roux Dr. and Mrs. Stefan Schatzki Joel Alvord and Lisa Schmid Mr. Chris Schoettle Arthur and Linda Schwartz Drs. John and Elizabeth Serrage Mr. Allan Singer Mr. and Mrs. William and Gloria Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Spiro In Honor of Wendy Shattuck Ms. Sandra Steele and Mr. Paul Greenfield Mr. Andrew Szentgyorgyi Marcos and Faith Szydlo Ms. Deb Taylor Blair* UBS Financial Services Ms. Ruth Wells Ms. Mary Wolfson Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Zilberfarb Aria ($250 to $499) Anonymous (6) Susan Alexander and Jim Gammill In Honor of Susan Howe Mr. Peter Ambler and Ms. Lindsay Miller Donald A. Antonioli Mr. Bernard Aserkoff Joseph and Janet Aucoin Doris Toby Axelrod and Larry Marks Marc and Carol Bard John Bavicchi and Beverly Lewis

John and Molly Beard Dr. and Mrs. Martin Becker Elaine Beilin and Robert Brown Mr. John Belchers Mrs. Lisa Bell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Benjamin Mr. Clark Bernard Dr. and Mrs. Stuart R. Bless Ms. Christa Bleyleben Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon Bolton Dr. Roger Boshes Ms. Christine Bradt Ms. Kristin Bray and Mr. Ross Dickson Ms. Sally T. Brewster Ms. Sarah Carleton Ms. Eleanor Carr Elizabeth Carvelli Mr. John Campbell Ms. Mary Chamberlain Mr. Stanley Cheren Ms. Ann Chiacchieri Ms. Ingrid Christiansen Ms. Mei Po Cheung Michael and Victoria Chu Citizens Bank Rachel and Thomas Claflin Mr. Elijah Clark-Ginsberg Rev. Richard Clifford Mrs. Gale Cogan Patricia Comeau and John Adams Janet Comey Dr. and Mrs. John Constable In Memory of Shirley Perry James F. Crowley, Jr. Rita and George Cuker Mr. Paul Curtis Ms. Frederica M. Cushman Ms. Diane Davis Mr. Terry O. Decima Dr. Amos Deinard Ms. Margaret DePopolo Mr. Mark Donohoe Ms. Jennifer Eckert Mr. and Mrs. John Egan Bill and Susan Elsbree Mr. Martin Elvis Mrs. Terry England Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Epstein Mrs. Susan Epstein Louis Esposito Jack Fabiano and Noel McCoy Dr. Lisa Fitzgerald In Honor of Lila Gross Katherine and Richard Floyd Robert and Kathleen Garner Mr. David C. Gaynor Ms. Eileen P. Gebrian Margaret and Bruce Gelin Ms. Elizabeth Goodfellow Ms. Ruth Golden Dr. Philip L. Goldsmith and Melissa Boshco Google, Inc. Mrs. Eleanor Groel Mr. Stephen Grubaugh and Ms. Carol McGeehan Mr. Terrence Guiney Ms. Joan P. Gulovsen Mr. David Hacin Mr. Kurt Hakansson Lee and Henry Harrison Anne and Neil Harper Mr. Harvey Hayashi

Ms. Jasjit Heckathorn Ruth Helfeld and Evan Rizvi Roberta and Doug Herman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High Mr. Roger Hinman Mr. Richard Hooper Cyrus Hopkins and Betty Blume Ms. Maisie Houghton Amy Hunter and Steven Maguire*§ Mr. Konstantin Tyurin and Ms. Kirstin Ilse Mr. Benjamin Jackson Paul and Alice Johnson W. Richard Johnson Mr. Steven Katz Karen Van Kennen Mr. Kenneth Kenyon Mr. Richard Kimball Dr. Lester Kobzik Mary Jane Kornacki Ms. Mary Lapointe Ms. Alison Lasiewski Mr. Randolph Lewis Mr. Jack Lull Lorraine Lyman Mr. Robert Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Madnick Soren and Carlyn Marcus Ekstrom Peyton and Nancy Marshall Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Mastroianni Mr. Arthur Mattuck Mr. James M. McCloy Ms. Kathleen Meany Grier Merwin Ms. Karen Metcalf Mr. and Mrs. Kilmer McCully Anna McDormand Bill Nigreen and Kathleen McDermott§ Ms. Carol McKeen and Mr. John Dunton Ms. Dolores Mitchell Ms. Sandra Moose Dr. Zeyad Morcos Joseph Morrow and Carol Almeda Morrow Ms. Barbara Murray Mr. Kameel Nasr Christian and Darian Neckermann Nuchine Nobari Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Nunes Ms. Suzanne Ogden and Mr. Richard Ortner Mr. and Mrs. John O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. David Parker Olivia and John Parker Mr. William Peiffer Ms. Anne Peretz Mr. and Mrs. Roy and Jean Perkinson Dr. Flora Pirquet and Mr. Gary Beckmann Ms Elizabeth P. Powell Gerald Powers Mr. and Mrs. William Quigley Mr. and Mrs. E. Ricardo Quinones Mr. Eben Rauhut Mr. Jack Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. James Righter Mr. Thomas Roney Donald and Nancy Rosenfield Mr. Simon Rosenthal Mr. Michael Rubenstein and Ms. Elizabeth Skavish Ms. Renee Sack Mr. Jonathan F. Saxton David and Kathy Scadden Stephen and Peg Senturia

Varda and Dr. Israel Shaked Ms. Marisa Spilios Stephen Steiner In Memory of Shirley Perry Mr. Christopher B. Steward Ms. Joan Suit Mr. Francis Sylvia Dr. and Mrs. Carter Tallman Ramona Tanabe Mr. Wheeler Thackston Ms. Diane Tillotson Mr. Nicholas Tranquillo Arthur and Susan Vogt Mr. Anton Vrame Dr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Walther Mr. Matthew Watson Linda and Harvey Weiner Mr. Stephen Wohler Ms. Jennifer Yanco Joan and Michael Yogg Albert and Judith Zabin Norma and Gunars Zagars Cheryl and Mark Zarrillo Envision Opera Challenge Blue Board Member * Lyric Circle Member † Goldovsky Society Member § Deceased ‡

Special thanks to the anonymous family foundation whose $1 million gift to BLO launched the Envision Opera Challenge.

Now in the final year of the four year $4 million Challenge, BLO recognizes donors (in blue) who support Opera Annex, new productions and new works.

BLO encourages all donors to consider a qualifying gift to the Challenge this year.

To learn more, visit: blo.org/support/envision-opera-challenge or call Sarah Blume at 617.542.4912 x228.

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The Opera Gala

in support of Boston Lyric Opera’s Work with Emerging Artists

The pursuit of a successful career in opera is a challenging—and expensive—undertaking. Singers must continually hone their talents with regular coaching, expand their repertoire by learning new roles, and find opportunities to make themselves heard. BLO recognizes that the next generation of opera stars needs to be nurtured in order to flourish, and that the future of the art form depends on their success. To that end, BLO has proudly expanded the opportunities we provide to emerging artists.

• Public auditions allow hundreds of singers to be heard • Role and audition preparation in one-on-one sessions with both BLO’s Music Director David Angus and BLO Coaches • Understudy key leading roles, thereby broadening their resume • Perform principal and comprimario roles in fully-staged BLO productions • Additional paid performance opportunities at BLO’s public Community Engagement and Special Events • Professional mentorship from General & Artistic Director Esther Nelson provides career guidance and support • Feedback auditions with Director of Artistic Operations Nicholas Russell provide invaluable counsel and advice on repertoire choices • Introduction of BLO Emerging Artists to key Artists’ Managers BLO’s Emerging Artists are identified during the casting process of each Season’s repertoire. The Artists have, in most cases, already established themselves professionally and are drawn primarily from the post-graduate and post young artist fields.

In certain exceptional cases, younger candidates who are appropriate for specific repertoire with the Company will be considered.

Boston Lyric Opera Celebrates the Emerging Artists of the 2013/14 season Chelsea Basler, soprano So Young Park, soprano Michelle Trainor, soprano Nicole Rodin, mezzo-soprano David McFerrin, baritone Liam Moran, bass Omar Najmi, tenor 2013/14 Emerging Artists from left to right

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There is never-ending career support, coachings, and wonderful singing opportunities, but the most important thing has been the enormous change in my self-confidence! Being an Emerging Artist has changed my life.

— Michelle Trainor, BLO Emerging Artist

These benefits and opportunities require a great deal of financial and Company resources, and we need your help to continue this important work. Please join the Sponsors and guests of The Opera Gala and raise your hands to applaud BLO’s Emerging Artists and provide the support necessary to ensure their success.

To support BLO’s Emerging Artists: go to blo.org/give or Scan the QR code with your smartphone

Use the gift envelope provided in your program book to mail your contribution or turn it in to any of the ushers as you exit the theatre.

Call 617.542.4912

x229

Your unrestricted support will enable Boston Lyric Opera to feature and nurture emerging operatic talent, and ensure the future of opera in Boston and New England for generations to come. Thank you.

THE 2013 STEPHEN SHRESTINIAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE Omar Najmi This cash award was created to help an exceptional young artist in the BLO chorus further his or her career by supporting advancement activities such as coaching a new role; taking a movement, dance or acting class; or paying a portion of graduate school tuition or travel expenses. It is awarded annually in memory of one of BLO’s beloved chorus members who passed away suddenly at the age of 29. Recipients of the Shrestinian Award include Neil Nelson, Alan Schneider, Heidi Stober, Stephanie Chigas, Laura Choi Stuart, Andrea Coleman, Erica Brookhyser, Joseph Valone, Neal Ferreira, Meredith Hansen, Michelle Trainor and Molly Paige Crookedacre.

Mr. Najmi is a graduate of Boston University and was a member of the BLO Chorus for The Flying Dutchman.

For the upcoming 2013/14 Season, he is a BLO Emerging Artist in Residence, understudying leading roles and appearing in all four season productions as First Spirit Messenger in The Magic Flute; Rev. Harrington in Lizzie Borden; Borsa in Rigoletto and Bruno in I Puritani.

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BLO In The Community In celebration of The Magic Flute, BLO presented a number of special events and programs throughout the fall in collaboration with our cultural partners throughout the Boston community. Thank you.

Magical, Musical Tales

Treasures of the Sierra Madre

Maya Galleries

The Magic of Mozart: Family Opera day at the BPL

Boston Children’s Museum Sponsored by Pamela S. Kunkemueller

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sponsored by Ann Beha & Robert Radloff and Jessica & Timothy Donohue

Upcoming Events

Zoo New England Sponsored by Wayne Davis & Ann Merrifield

Boston Public Library, Zoo New England and Handel & Haydn Society Sponsored by Sandra Urie & Frank Herron

Lizzie Borden: Opera Night at the BPL Boston Public Library Central Branch | Copley Square Rabb Lecture Hall | Thursday, October 24 | 6:00 p.m.

Free, and open to the public

“Lizzie Borden Took an Axe” Signature Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Remis Auditorium Sunday, November 3 | Performance 2:00 p.m. | Reception* 3:00 p.m.

Tickets: $18 – BLO subscribers, MFA members, seniors and students, $22 – Non-Members *Add $50 per person for reception with BLO presenters and performers

Lizzie Borden: Annex Open House The Castle at Park Plaza | 130 Columbus Ave, Boston Saturday, November 23 | 11:00 a.m.

Free, and open to the public

Boston Lyric Opera and Wheelock Family Theatre Workshops Finding Your Voice: the Complete Singing Actor Musical Monologues: November 16 – 17, 2013 Musical Characters: March 1 – 2, 2014 Pitch Perfect: May 17 – 18, 2014 BLO’s Sonic Story Lab Workshops and Residencies with Young Audiences of Massachusetts For more information or to book a program, visit yamass.org or call 617.629.9262 x 303.

Visit blo.org/learn for more information. photo: BLO 2013 Open House, Ben Gebo Photography

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the A SE A SO N O P E N I N G CELEBR A TIO N

Friday, October 4, 2013 Ann B eh a | Ly nn Da l e | J e ssi c a D o n o hue Co - Cha i rs

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Dear Friends and Fans of Boston Lyric Opera, Tonight, Boston Lyric Opera opens its 37th season and simultaneously inaugurates The Opera Gala, A Season Opening Celebration. This year, for the first time, Boston Lyric Opera will celebrate its opening night of the season in grand style to complement the world premiere of a new English adaptation of Mozart’s classic, The Magic Flute.

The transition to an opening night gala is very exciting for BLO. We are honored to be at the helm of this newly-imagined event and we thank the wonderful supporters who have been with us on this journey and who join us this evening.

This is our night to sing our Company’s praises and to support BLO’s remarkable Emerging Artists. The promise of our Emerging Artists—singers whom BLO nurtures to fly to great heights—is inspiring. Through our generosity we all share in their future success.

We recognize the Citi Performing Arts Center℠, Be Our Guest Rentals, The Catered Affair, Winston Flowers, Neiman Marcus and many more who have made this unique evening possible. We thank, in advance, the many donors who, through the gala and other avenues, ensure BLO’s remarkable programs and cultural leadership.

Enjoy this wonderful Gala Opening Night!

Ann Beha

Lynn Dale

Jessi c a Dono hu e

Ann Beha Ann Beha is one of Boston’s leading architects, and an ardent opera lover. Her professional work includes buildings for music and performance, and she is an Overseer of Boston Lyric Opera.

Lynn Dale Lynn Dale has planned many of Boston’s most special events for more than 20 years with roles at Filene’s Department Stores, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Lynn is an Overseer of Boston Lyric Opera.

Jessica Donohue Jessica Donohue is a Senior Vice President and heads State Street’s Global Exchange Research and Advisory business, providing decision makers with the intelligence they need to identify opportunities, enhance performance, and manage risk.

Jessica is an Overseer of Boston Lyric Opera.

gala committEe Steven & Jane Akin David Angus Sarah Ashby Linda Cabot Black Willa Bodman John Conklin Meghan Covington Ted Cutler Wayne Davis & Ann Merrifield

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Kyla Akin de Asla Miguel & Suki de Bragança Alan & Lisa Dynner Barbara Winter Glauber Luba Greenwood Marjorie Greville Amy Hunter Horace H. Irvine II Leon Major

Andrew Marconi Austyn Ellese Mayfield Faith Moore Cosmo & Jane Papa Susan Poduska Holly Safford Lisa Geissenhainer Shaw Josiah A. Spaulding Simone Williamson

Gala Sponsors

The Gala Menu

STAR SPONSORS Linda Cabot Black Lynn Dale & Frank Wisneski

First Course

SUN SPONSORS Steven & Jane Akin Willa & Taylor Bodman

Baby Herb Salad with Toasted Cumin Vinaigrette

MOON SPONSORS Ann Beha & Robert Radloff Wayne Davis & Ann Merrifield Miguel & Suki de Bragança Michael & Christine Puzo Wendy Shattuck & Samuel Plimpton

Braised Beef Short Ribs with Prune and Ancho Chili Sauce

FIRE SPONSORS Thomas & Lisa Blumenthal David & Pamela Donohue Jessica & Timothy Donohue Barbara & Robert Glauber Marjorie & Nicholas Greville Horace H. Irvine II Maria Krokidas & Bruce Bullen Pamela S. Kunkemueller Ray & Maria Stata Sandra A. Urie & Frank F. Herron Tania Zouikin EARTH SPONSORS Eric & Elaine Bucher Alan & Lisa Dynner William & Priscilla Kennedy Neiman Marcus Boston Richard & Linda Olney Irving & Janet Plotkin William & Helen Pounds David & Marie Louise Scudder FRIENDS OF THE GALA David & Dorothy Arnold Carol Deane Lia & William Poorvu

Baby Peppers stuffed with Beans, Rice and Chorizo with Corn and Tomatillo Compote

Main Course Sweet Corn Purée, Fried Yucca, Baby Zucchini and Red and Yellow Peppers

To-Go Treat Trio of Tiny Cookies, baked with Taza Chocolate

The Opera After Party Menu Sweets Mexican Chocolate Truffles with Spiced Pecans Mango and Lime Curd Tartlets Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Pops Miniature Tres Leches Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting and Chocolate Shavings Coconut Milk Shakes with Shredded Coconut and Cinnamon Caramel-Coffee Milk Shakes

Savories Bamboo Cones of Plantain Chips and Tostones Petite Snapper Tacos with Avocado Crema and Pickled Red Onion Petite Spicy Pulled Pork Tacos with Smoked Jalapeño Vinaigrette, Cotija and Black Bean Purée Petite Carne Asada Tacos with Caramelized Onion, Guacamole and Salsa Arbol

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EVENT partners Boston Lyric Opera Gratefully acknowledges the support of our corporate event partners for The Opera Gala.

ABA

www.annbeha.com ▪ 33 Kingston Street ▪ Boston, MA 02111 ▪ 617.338.3000

Shelburne Museum, Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education Ann Beha Architects

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We salute Esther and her sixth year of Magic at BLO. Hats off to the Chairs of this year’s Gala, and cheers to all our singers and creative team!

Willa & Taylor Bodman

Bravissimo to Ann Beha, Lynn Dale, Jessica Donohue and the 2013 Gala Committee for their creativity and vision in inaugurating Boston Lyric Opera’s first Season Opening Gala. From cuisine inspired by South America, to a premiere production of The Magic Flute, to champagne, desserts, dancing, and merriment within the company of good friends, the Season Opening Gala celebrates Boston Lyric Opera and the greater community, that for nearly four decades on, supports it.

The unerring eye and the sense of fun that all of you have brought to this magical evening is only matched by the artistry on and off stage from our talented Boston cast and crew.

Congratulations on a new and innovative Gala that sets the stage for the Season!

Steve & Jane Akin

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Don’t miss Lizzie Borden!

Linda Cabot Black

Congratulations, once again, to the wonderful staff of Boston Lyric Opera on producing a magical 37th Season of world class opera!

Wayne Davis & Ann Merrifield

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With our best wishes for the upcoming Season and our sincere thanks for keeping opera thriving in Boston.

Christine & Michael Puzo

Boston Lyric Opera: Keeping the “Magic” of opera alive in Boston!

Congratulations to all who make it possible.

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Congratulations to Co-Chairs Ann Beha, Lynn Dale and Jessica Donohue, and best wishes to Esther Nelson and BLO for an exciting and successful 37th Season!

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Wishing BLO every success this season.

Congratulations to Esther and the BLO Family for celebrating Emerging Artists.

Marjie & Nicholas Greville

Maria Krokidas & Bruce Bullen

Congratulations to BLO on stage, in our community and in our hearts!

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Thanks for your great performances.

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Esther Nelson General & Artistic Director David Angus Music Director John Conklin Artistic Advisor Artistic

Nicholas G. Russell Director of Artistic Operations Jennifer Feldman Artistic Coordinator Nancy McDonald Artistic Associate Development

Eileen Nugent Williston Director of Institutional Advancement Sarah B. Blume Director of Major Gifts Heather R. Coulter Patron Services Coordinator Renee M. Dunn Director of Special Events & Corporate Sponsorships Catherine Emmons Director of Institutional Gifts Robin Schweikart Database Administrator Vanessa Wheeler Research and Database Coordinator Education and Community Programs

Megan Cooper Director of Community Engagement Heather Gallagher Resident Teaching Artist

Finance and Administration

Steven Glanzman Director of Finance and Administration David J. Cullen Accounting Manager Reingard Heller Finance Manager David Lucey Office Associate Marketing and Communications

Ryan Jimenez Managing Director of Operations & Marketing Communications Islanda Khau Design Manager Julie-Anne Whitney Marketing Coordinator Goodwin PR Group Public Relations Production

Bradley Vernatter Director of Production Casey Smith Interim Director of Production Julia Noulin-Mérat Associate Producer Timothy O’Connell Technical Production Manager Dana C. Ciccotello Production Administrator Garry McLinn Manager Director’s Office Dan Duro Planning Advisor Magda Romanska Dramaturg INTERNS

Naomi Brigell Melanie O’Neill

VOLUNTEER CORPS Lynn Bregman Clementine Brown Jane Cammack Stephen Chan Ashley Chang Caroline Cole Jose Alberto Colon Barbara Compton Jeannie Ackerman Curhan Ann D’Angelo Jaclyn Dentino Karla De Greef Mary DePoto Frances Driscoll Marian Ead

Susan Eastman Hugh Fitzgerald Audley Fuller Ralph Gioncardi Linda Granitto Jennifer Harris Eric Haskal Bruce Houston Molly Johnson Yasmina Kamal Eva Karger Milling Kinard Jo Anna Klein Esther Lable Melissa Lanouette

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Nancy Lynn Deborah Martin Domenico Mastrototaro Terri Mazzulli Anne McGuire Amy Molloy Meg Morton Katherine Nash Kameel Nasr Gail Neff Kellie Pacheco Jane Papa Cosmo Papa Barbara Papesch Mamoud Sadre

Patricia Sadre Jutta Scott Alexandra Sherman Lee Sullivan Debbie Swenson Barbara Trachtenberg Jessica Tybursky Amy Walba Gerry Weisenberg Debbie Wiess Beverly Wiggins Alfred Williams Joe Williams Sybil Williams

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PERFORMANCE & VENUE INFORMATION

Boston Lyric Opera extends its gratitude to the following

Late Seating

individuals and organizations for their extraordinary

At the request of our patrons, Boston Lyric Opera observes the national opera standard of a no late seating policy. While we understand that traffic conditions, public transportation, weather and other factors can have unexpected effects on your arrival, we wish to minimize disruptions for our seated patrons and for our artists on stage. Latecomers will be asked to wait in the lobby until the earliest possible break in the performance, which in some cases may be intermission. Should you arrive late, the Company provides a video monitor in the lobby where you may view the performance until you are seated.

courtesy in making our productions possible: Advanced Lighting and Production Services Benjamin Alden Alissa McMahon Design American Repertory Theatre Steve Setterlun Ehry Anderson Be Our Guest, Inc. Susan Bennett, M.D., Company Physician Consultant Associate Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital Scott Berry Boston Children’s Museum Carol Charnow Boston Landmarks Orchestra Boston Public Library The Catered Affair Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Josiah A, Spaulding, Jr. Costume Works, Inc. Liz Perlman Denka Trucking Dick Butler Jim Deveer Elderhostel, Inc./Road Scholar Eric Antoniou Photography Genovese Vanderhoof & Associates Margaret Genovese Dory Vanderhoof Goodwin PR Group Tara Goodwin Frier Margrette Cardone Mondillo JoJo Gutfarb Handel and Haydn Society Robert Hofler IATSE Local #11 JACET Lynn Dale Events Victoria Looseleaf Jason McClellan Doug McLennan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Myles Standish Business Condominiums Neiman Marcus Daniel Kramer Annette Goubeaux Sovereign/Santander Bank St. Paul Choir School John Robinson, Music Director United Staging & Rigging Eric Frishman Wheelock Family Theatre Winston Flowers Zoo New England

As a courtesy to the artists and for the comfort of those around you, please turn off all mobile phones, pagers, watch alarms, and any other device with audible signals prior to the start of the performance.

Patrons who leave the theatre during the performance may not be seated again until intermission.

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

In consideration of Boston Lyric Opera patrons, children under six will not be admitted.

Citi Performing Arts Center℠ Shubert Theatre is not entirely wheelchair accessible. For patrons with disabilities, wheelchair accessible and companion seating, as well as removable arm chairs, are available in a variety of locations and prices on the Orchestra level. There is no elevator in the Shubert Theatre; staircases are available for access to the Mezzanine and Balcony level seating areas. A wheelchair accessible restroom and concession station are located off the main lobby. A wheelchair accessible telephone is located in the box office lobby. The Shubert Theatre is equipped with an FM assistive listening device for patrons with hearing impairments; headsets are available free of charge at the Head Usher’s desk. A pay-TTY device for deaf patrons is located in the box office lobby. Patrons requiring assistance should contact Citi Performing Arts Center℠ in advance of their visit. Please call 617.482.9393 or (TTY) 617.482.5757. Patrons who are deaf are encouraged to use the Massachusetts Relay Service at 800.439.2370 for purchasing tickets to BLO productions. Please direct inquiries and requests for ADA guidelines to: Access Services Administrator, Citi Performing Arts Center℠, 270 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116.

TICKET INFORMATION

For information on Boston Lyric Opera productions, subscriptions and tickets, visit blo.org, call BLO audience services at 617.542.6772, or visit the Shubert Theatre box office, open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6:00 p.m., also available by telephone at 866.348.9738.

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All artists share a common ideal—to enrich the lives of others.

WE SALUTE BOSTON LYRIC OPERA

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