'Dolores Claiborne' at Booth Theatre - Program

February 21–24, 2019

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A Message from the Artistic Directors

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or our first operatic experience in the new Booth Theatre, we found a perfect companion in Tobias Picker’s operatic setting of Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne. Along with our previous productions of Mr. Picker’s Thérèse Raquin (2009) and Emmeline (2017), this psychological thriller and human drama completes an operatic triptych which, while unplanned when we first began our exploration of the imaginative work of Mr. Picker, now yields clear connective tissue amongst these three endeavors. From the dramatic to the musical to the visual, a through-line emerges that deepens our commitment to exploring the new and unknown, all while emphasizing the ability of music and theatre to powerfully and unequivocally connect performers and audience through our shared emotional journey as the play unfolds.

Like everything done here at the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre, the space invites exploration and experimentation. We have enjoyed the imaginative prompts that have come from these considerations and are pleased to share our efforts with you at today’s performance. We hope that you will continue to join in these adventures for many years to come!

Jim Petosa Director, School of Theatre William Lumpkin Artistic Director, Opera Institute

February 21–24, 2019

An opera by Tobias Picker Libretto by J.D. McClatchy

Based on the novel “Dolores Claiborne” by Stephen King by arrangement with Andrew Welch Conductor Director Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Technical Director Stage Manager Production Manager Fight Director Principal Coach Coach Producer

William Lumpkin Jim Petosa Paul J. Dufresne AJ Jones Marcella Barbeau Logan Lower Grace Hill Jenn Ruygt Ryan Winkles Matthew Larson Angela Gooch Oshin Gregorian

New England premiere of Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne Chamber version co-commissioned by New York City Opera, BU School of Music Opera Institute, and Schott Music Produced by arrangement with Schott Helicon Music Corporation, New York, publisher and copyright owner

CAST Dolores Claiborne

Megan Callahan*, Rebecca Printz+ Cover: Katarina Galagaza

Joe St. George

Frank Rosamond*, Leroy Y. Davis +

Vera Donovan

Julia Wolcott*, Ashlee Lamar+ Cover: Caroline Corrales

Selena St. George Detective Thibodeau

Emilie Faiella* Ann-Marie Iacoviello + Dongwhi Baek*, Eric Finbarr Carey+

*Thursday/Saturday performances + Friday/Sunday performances

ORCHESTRA Sarah Elert Alexandra Stoica Jessica Cooper Nayeon Kim Pablo Kennedy Pauline Jung Haley Russell Tina Tsai Christopher Moretti Katherine MuĂąoz Christian Gutierrez Eric Goode Shu-Peng Simon Wang Szu-Ning Tai Jack Barry

1st violin 2nd violin viola cello bass flute/piccolo oboe/English horn clarinet/bass clarinet alto saxophone bassoon horn tuba piano harp percussion

DESIGN & PRODUCTION TEAM Assistant Director Assistant Stage Manager Associate Production Manager Production Assistant

Adam Kassim Emma Cooney Angela Dogani Becca Sundberg Jennie Gorn

DESIGN & PRODUCTION TEAM Run Crew Assistant Scenic Designers Paint Charge Assistant Paint Charge Properties Master

Margo Cramer, Julia Hertzberg, Naomi Li, Raymond Vasco Carli Condemi, Eun Jeong Paik, Michelle Sparks Trish Torpey Danielle Ibrahim Meg McGuigan

Assistant Technical Director Master Carpenter/Head Rigger Paint/Scenic Build Crew

Jerry Zuraw Jacob DeSousa School of Theatre Technical Production Dept. and Scenic Artists

Assistant Costume Designer Shop Foreman Drapers

Ryan Goodwin Whitney Vaughan Maria Albutra, Mel Lindsey, Whitney Vaughan Azucena Dominguez, Brittany Meehan Talia Adler, Maia Soltis Amanda Caswell, Katherine Schaber

First Hands

Stitchers Wardrobe Crew Assistant Lighting Designer Moving Light Programmer Master Electrician Light Board Operator Follow Spot Operators Lighting Crew

Andrea Sala Mark Fortunato Erin Caltiere Albina Aleksandrova Victoria Omoregie, Kalista Tamez School of Theatre Lighting Dept.

Supertitles Audio Supervisor Assistant Audio Supervisor Sound Board Operator Sound Crew

Allison Voth Ryan Blaney Jon Beals Erin Davis School of Theatre Sound Dept.

Front of House Staff

William Edelson, Nadezhda Leinhos, Emma Laird, Tomas McLaughlin, Rona Moriah, Clarice Reiner, Declan Schliesmann, Michael Ticknor, Charlotte Weinmann, Mckayla Witt

PROGRAM NOTE Dolores Claiborne is a character destined for the operatic stage – passionate, desperate, trapped. She will do anything to save the daughter who despises her. Pushed to the extreme edge of life, she does what she has to, fearless and forsaken. I have wanted to write this opera for years. Yes, Stephen King is a master of suspense, but he is also a remarkable reader of human desires and fears.

- Tobias Picker

SYNOPSIS Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier.

Dolores also tells of Vera’s physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.

- stephenking.com

COMPOSER Tobias Picker, called “our finest composer for the lyric stage” (The Wall Street Journal), is a composer of numerous works in every genre.

The recipient of many awards and honors, including election to lifetime membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Picker has served as Artistic Director of the Tulsa Opera since 2016. His symphonic works have been performed by every major orchestra in the US; his five operas have been performed internationally and throughout the United States.

Santa Fe Opera gave the world premiere of his acclaimed first opera, Emmeline, broadcast nationally on PBS Great Performances. An American Tragedy was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Thérèse Raquin was premiered by the Dallas Opera. Dolores Claiborne, based on the novel by Stephen King, premiered at the San Francisco Opera. The world premiere recording of his family opera, premiered by the L.A. Opera, Fantastic Mr. Fox, will be released by Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera this spring.

With these performances of Dolores Claiborne, the Boston University Opera Institute continues its decade-long partnership with Tobias Picker, having previously given the Boston premieres of Emmeline and Thérèse Raquin.

This season Mr. Picker himself narrates his 1983 melodrama The Encantadas, previously recorded by Sir John Gielgud, for a performance and recording with the Nashville Symphony for Naxos Records. Tobias Picker’s music is published exclusively by Schott.

ARTISTIC & DESIGN TEAM William Lumpkin (Conductor), Associate Professor of Music, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Opera Institute at Boston University where he conducts Opera and Chamber Orchestra performances. He has conducted Boston Lyric Opera productions of Cosí fan tutte and Dove’s Flight and conducted the premiere of Flight and Hansel and Gretel with Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

In 2002, Lumpkin led performances of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s New Wave Festival. Mr. Lumpkin was Assistant to the Music Director at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where he made his company debut conducting performances of La bohème, followed by Magic Flute and Lucia di Lammermoor. He has appeared as guest conductor at Indiana University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Other professional credits include Wolf Trap Opera Company, Boston Lyric Opera, Aspen Opera Theatre Center, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Los Angeles Opera. Mr. Lumpkin holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music and a D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Southern California.

Jim Petosa (Stage Director) is completing his final semester as Director of the Boston University School of Theatre, a position he has held since 2002. He is also completing his term as Artistic Director of New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, serving since 2012. He served as Artistic Director of Maryland’s Olney Theatre Center for the Arts since 1993 until 2012, and the National Players. In 2008, Petosa established the Boston Center for American Performance, the professional extension of the BU School of Theatre. Petosa also serves as one of three artistic directors for the Potomac Theatre Project - PTP/NYC, a company devoted to the presentation of political works since 1987. A frequent collaborator with the BU Opera Institute, he has staged productions of Angels in America, Siren Song, Owen Wingrave, Thérèse Raquin, Postcard from Morocco, Bluebeard’s Castle, Antigone,

Carmen, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, War Reporter, and Emmeline.

Other directing credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Assassins, Good, Stuff Happens, Red Noses, Democracy, The Dog Plays, The Glass Menagerie, Copenhagen, A Taste of Honey, Jacques Brel… (Helen Hayes Award for Direction), Collected Stories, Marisol among many others. He is currently serving as President of the Board of StageSource.

Marcella Barbeau (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be back with the Opera Institute for Dolores Claiborne. She was previously the lighting designer for Pelléas et Mélisande at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

A third-year MFA candidate in lighting design at Boston University, Marcella just came back to the states after assisting designers at the English National Opera, Nationaltheater Mannheim, and National Theatre Munich this fall. Previous credits include lighting designer for BU’s Cabaret, Pool (No Water), Much Ado About Nothing, and Mad Forest, True West (Gloucester Stage Company), The Weird (Off the Grid).

Paul J. Dufresne (Scene Designer) is a third year MFA Scene Design student from Ventura, California. Selected opera credits include scene designs for Boston University Opera Institute’s Pelléas et Mélisande (2018); Le Nozze di Figaro (2017); and Hydrogen Jukebox (2016); Die Zauberflöte (Smothers Theatre -2016) directed by Henry Price. Additional credits include Boston University Booth Theater’s inaugural production of Rhinoceros (2018) as well as the recent productions of Angels in America Part 1 & Angels in America Part 2 (2018); These Shining Lives (Lindhurst Theatre - 2015), a production at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival entitled Forget Fire (C Venue +2 -2014), Goodnight Don’t Be Afraid and Hamlet (Theatre Three - 2014), associate scenic design for Class and Scott and Hem (Gary Marshall Theatre - 2015). Paul was awarded the USITT young designers’ national award for outstanding achievement in scenic design in 2016.

ARTISTIC & DESIGN TEAM Angela Gooch (Coach) (CFA ’98) joined the opera faculty last year as pianist, coach, and music director of Opera Project. Ms. Gooch continues as voice faculty at The Walnut Hill School for the Arts where she served ten years as the Head of the voice program. She has served on the faculty at Northeastern University, Boston University, and the Tanglewood Young Artist Vocal Program.

She has been honored by the NFAA and named in the Who’s Who Among American Teachers as one the arts most distinguished teachers. Ms. Gooch serves as music director of the Opera Theatre of Weston in VT where she most recently music directed the east coast premiere of Nolan Gasser’s The Secret Garden. Ms. Gooch has also spent a great deal of her career as an operatic soprano. Credits include Voice of the Fountain in Golijov’s Grammy award winning Ainadamar, Ward’s opera The Crucible, and Sawyer’s Our American Cousin, in which she created the role of Mary Lincoln with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

Oshin Gregorian (Producer) is the Managing Director and Producer for the Boston University Opera Institute.

Previous positions include Director of Operations with the ProArte Chamber Orchestra, and General Manager for Collage New Music. Mr. Gregorian holds a BM in vocal performance from Boston University, a MM in vocal performance from Manhattan School of Music, and is a graduate of the Opera Institute with honors. With the Opera Institute, he has been seen as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Il Podesta in La Finta Giardiniera, and Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, among others. He has performed in numerous concerts and oratorio works with ensembles such as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus/Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Newburyport Choral Society, and Boston Youth Symphony, among others. Mr. Gregorian made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 under the auspices of Music Armenia.

Grace Hill (Stage Manager) is a stage manager and multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Miami. In May, Grace will be graduating from the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre with a BFA in Stage Management. Along with stage managing ten productions during her time at BU, she freelanced in New York for two summers and went abroad to Madrid to further her studies of the Spanish language and art history. After Dolores Claiborne, Grace will be working on her thesis titled The Earth is Red as a production manager and sound designer which will be March 29 – 30 in the Joan & Edgar Booth Theater.

AJ Jones (Costume Designer) is a thirdyear graduate student at Boston University.

He will be graduating in May with his MFA in Costume Design. He is thrilled to be working on another Tobias Picker piece, he was the assistant costume designer for Emmeline in 2017. Some of his recent work includes Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood (BPT), Antigone (BU), and Oleanna (Boston NewRep). He received his B.S. in Theatre from University of Southern Indiana and plans on moving to NYC after graduation.

Matthew Larson (Coach) received his Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State University in 2001 under the tutelage of Eckart Sellheim. An accomplished recitalist, Dr. Larson has played over 700 performances in the US and Europe. He has worked with such varied artists as Metropolitan Opera stars Carol Vaness, Maria Spacagna, Eric Owens, and Lawrence Brownlee; Academy of Ancient Music director Christopher Hogwood; vocal pedagogy pioneer Richard Miller; and the eminent collaborative artist Dalton Baldwin, with whom Matthew was invited to study in New York. Past positions include Assistant Conductor for Boston Lyric Opera; Music Director for the University of Connecticut Opera Program; Staff Pianist for Yale University Opera; Vocal Coach at Brown University; Staff Pianist for The American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; Music Director of Opera Providence; Vocal Coach at Walnut Hill continued >

ARTISTIC & DESIGN TEAM School for the Arts; Pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Music Director for Cape Cod Opera; and Vocal Coach for Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artist Vocal Program. Currently, Dr. Larson is on faculty at Boston University; Music Director of Seaglass Theater Company of New Bedford MA; and Minister of Music at First Congregational Church of Milton, Massachusetts.

Opera, the Chicago Symphony, Opera Boston, Boston Lyric Opera, White Snake Productions, and at the Barbican Festival in London. As a specialist in the music of Paul Bowles, in 1992, she produced and performed in a multi-media performance piece entitled Paul Bowles: One Man, Two Voices at Merkin Hall in New York, and in 1995, she premiered a set of piano preludes in the EOS Ensemble’s Bowles Festival.

Ms. Voth is also the Music Director of the Logan Lower (Technical Director) is a Cantata Singers’ Chamber Series and can Senior Technical Production Major and be heard on CRI recordings.

Dolores Claiborne is his fifth production as Technical Director at Boston University. Ryan Winkles (Fight Director) Boston Other productions include: Much Ado Area Credits: Bridge Repertory Theatre: About Nothing, Our Town, Wonderful Valentine’s Day SHAKE-Up (Henry V), World of Dissocia, and New York Showcase Mrs Packard (Male Witnesses); Brandeis 2018. Outside of Boston University, Logan University: DibbleDance: Shoes On/Shoes has worked as a scenic carpenter for Maine Off (Dapper Man); Martha’s Vineyard State Music Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Playhouse: Visitors (Stephen); Elements Theatre, Boston Children’s Theatre, Theatre Company: All My Sons (Chris), Harvard University, IATSE 481, MIT, The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio). Regional: Huntington Theatre and as a Project Shakespeare & Company: The Creditors Management Intern at Tait Towers.

(Adolph), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine), Henry V (Henry V), Complete Jennifer Ruygt (Production Manager) Works (Ryan), Mother Courage (Swiss is an MFA candidate in Production Cheese), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dull), The Management with Boston University CFA Tempest (Ferdinand), King Lear (Edgar), School of Theatre. Recent BU credits As You Like It (Silvius), Hound of the include: Angels in America Part 1 & Angels Baskervilles (Sir Henry), Irma Vep (Jane/ in America Part 2, When the Rain Stops Lord Edgar), The Learned Ladies (Trissotin), Falling, Rhinoceros, and The War Reporter. Richard III (Tyrrel/1st Murderer), Twelfth This summer she worked with Juniper Night (Sir Andrew), Othello (Roderigo), A Street Productions on Moulin Rouge! at Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute), Antony Emerson Colonial Theatre. She is also a & Cleopatra (Pompey/Eros), Merry Wives company stage manager with the Reduced (Fenton), Julius Caesar NE Tour (Cassius), Shakespeare Company.

Macbeth NE Tour (Banquo); Ark Theatre Company: Babylon Revisited (Lincoln); Allison Voth (Supertitles) is an Associate WAM Theatre: Old Mezzo (Joe); Madison Professor of Music at Boston University and Rep: Muskie Love (Claude); Milwaukee Principal Coach at BU’s Opera Institute. A Chamber Theatre: Christmas Memory well-known coach with a specialty in diction, (Buddy), Misalliance (Bentley). Film/TV: she has worked with such companies and “Paper Birds”; Doug Trumbull’s “UFOTOG”; festivals as Boston Lyric Opera, Opera “Time Traveling Bong” (Comedy Central).

Boston, Chautauqua Opera, Opera North, Ryan is also a Fight Choreographer and Opera Unlimited, The Florence Voice teaches at Boston University. He holds a BA Seminar, and the Athens Music Festival. A from FSU, an MFA from UW-Madison, and is recognized supertitlist, her titles have been a proud member of Actors’ Equity. used nationwide, including Washington

CUNNING THE LITTLE VIXEN Composer & Librettist - Leoš Janáček Conductor - William Lumpkin Stage Director - E. Loren Meeker

APRIL 29 - MAY 2 Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre 219 Tremont Street, Boston

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Co-production with Glimmerglass Festival

CAST Dongwhi Baek (Detective Thibodeau), tenor, originally from

South Korea, is a first-year student at the Boston University Opera Institute studying with Sharon Daniels. Recent engagements include Alfredo in Act 3 of La Traviata with the Opera Institute, Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo with CCM, and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with Chapman University. He also has appeared as a tenor soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Bach’s Cantata 150 and with CCM Philharmonia in Bach’s B minor mass.

This April, he will also be seen in the role of Schoolmaster in The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janá ček with the Opera Institute. In 2017, Mr. Baek was a Studio Artist at the Central City Opera in Colorado. He recently received a Master of Music in Voice at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music where he studied with Professor William McGraw. He received his bachelor’s degree from Chapman University, where he studied with Professor Patrick Goeser.

Eric Finbarr Carey (Detective Thibodeau), tenor, from Rockville Centre, New York, is a first-year student in the Opera Institute studying with Penelope Bitzas. Carey holds a Master of Music from the Vocal Arts Program at Bard College, and a Bachelor of Music from The Peabody Conservatory/The Johns Hopkins University in Vocal Performance/Music Business. With the Opera Institute Carey has performed Alfredo in La Traviata, and later this year, Schoolmaster in The Cunning Little Vixen. Previous roles include the title role in Candide, with The Orchestra Now; Monsieur Vogelsang in Der Schauspieldirektor, with The Albany Symphony; Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, with the Suzhou Symphony, Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peabody Opera Theater; Queen’s

Attendant A Full Moon in March, Bard College Opera; Funeral Director, A Quiet Place, Tanglewood Music Center.

Upcoming Performances of the Sparrow in the North American Premiere of The Cricket Recovers at the Tanglewood Music Center conducted by Thomas Adès, Bach Cantata concert led by John Harbison and a recital with pianist Javier Arrebola. He will also be a returning vocal fellow for the 2019 Tanglewood Music Center season. Carey is the winner of the 2017 Concerto Competition at Bard College, Encouragement Award, Gerda Lissner Lieder Competition, 1st place Sparks and Wiry Cries Song Slam competition.

Megan Callahan (Dolores Claiborne), mezzo-soprano, is a native of Seattle, WA and a first-year student with at the Boston University Opera Institute under the instruction of Penelope Bitzas. With the Opera Institute, Megan has performed the role of Gertrude Stein in Tom Cipullo’s After Life.

Other notable stage credits include Olga in Eugene Onegin, Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking, Frau Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, as well as Mother Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Additionally, she has performed with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Seagle Music Colony, and American Opera Projects. Ms. Callahan holds a M.M. in Opera Performance from the Boston Conservatory and a B.M. in Voice Performance from UNC Greensboro. She is also a Tulsa district Encouragement Award winner of the MONC auditions. This spring, Megan will perform the role of the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen with the Opera Institute.

Leroy Y. Davis (Joe St. George), baritone, from Bronx, NY is a first year Opera Institute student under the tutelage of Sharon Daniels. With the Opera Institute, he has performed

CAST the role of Pablo Picasso in After Life.

Previous roles include Maximilian in Candide as an Apprentice Artist with Chautauqua Opera, a mainstage debut at the Florentine Opera as Aeneas/ Adonis in their double bill of Dido and Aeneas/Venus and Adonis, Papageno in The Magic Flute and Mandarin/Ping in Turandot with Shreveport Opera. Mr. Davis has been the recipient of awards from Central City Opera, The Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year and Metropolitan Opera National Council competitions. As an undergraduate, he attended the Mannes College of Music and earned his master’s from Bard College. Upcoming performances include Leporello in Don Giovanni, The Forrester in The Cunning Little Vixen, and Frat Brother/Pastor/Foreman in the world premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones as a Gerdine Young Artist at St. Louis Opera.

Emilie Faiella (Selena St. George), soprano, from San Dimas, California, is a second-year graduate student under the tutelage of Penelope Bitzas. Emilie received her BM in voice performance from Azusa Pacific University. Her roles include The Girl in After Life (Cipullo), Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Ginevra in Ariodante, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Emilie received a MONC Encouragement Award followed by Second Place from the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, and was a SongFest Young Artist in 2017.

In 2016, she participated in Houston Grand Opera’s YAVA program. In April 2019, Emilie will perform the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen.

Ann-Marie Iacoviello (Selena St. George), soprano, from North Andover, Massachusetts, is a second-year Master of Voice student under the tutelage of Phyllis Hoffman. Ann-Marie received a BM in Vocal Performance from Ithaca College. With the Opera Institute, Ann-

Marie has performed the roles of Girl in After Life, Emmie in Albert Herring, and in the Ensemble of Pélleas et Mélisande.

Ann-Marie has also performed the roles of Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Miami Music Festival and Flora in The Turn of the Screw with DC Public Opera.

Ann-Marie was a finalist in the 2017 Edward M. Murray Voice Competition with Opera Ithaca and the winner of the 2016 CNYFL-NATS 4th/5th year division.

Upcoming performances include Soprano Soloist for ALEA III concerts Music from Portugal and Pluck’n’Bow, and Cricket/Chicken/Cub in The Cunning Little Vixen with the Opera Institute.

Ashlee Lamar (Vera Donovan), soprano, is from Indiana, Pennsylvania.

She is a first-year student in the Boston University Opera Institute and studies with Penelope Bitzas. Ashlee earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance (Opera Emphasis) from The Boston Conservatory and a Performance Diploma in Voice Performance from Boston University. Previous roles at Boston University include Violetta Valéry in La Traviata, Kate in Sweets by Kate, Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring, and Harriet in Emmeline. Other roles include the title role in Suor Angelica and Mimì in La bohème, both with Red River Lyric Opera, and Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto with both Brevard Music Center and Asheville Lyric Opera.

Rebecca Printz (Dolores Claiborne), mezzo-soprano, a Brookline native, is a first-year student at the Boston University Opera Institute, studying under Penelope Bitzas. Rebecca recently received her Masters in Voice from CCM, where she studied with William McGraw.

As an undergraduate, Rebecca attended Oberlin, where she studied voice with Kendra Colton, as well as art history. Last semester, Rebecca performed the role of Gertrude Stein in BU’s production of After Life. As a Tanglewood Vocal Fellow continued >

CAST this past summer, Rebecca performed in Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place. At CCM, Rebecca was seen as Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Paquette in Candide, and as Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon. Her roles at Oberlin include Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, and Florence Pike in Albert Herring. Rebecca was a recipient of CCM’s graduate incentive award, and was a finalist in Oberlin’s concerto competition. This summer, Rebecca looks forward to participating in the Marlboro Music Festival as a member of the Vocal Program.

Frank Rosamond (Joe St. George), baritone, from Dallas, Texas, is a firstyear student at the Boston University Opera Institute where he studies under Dr. Lynn Eustis. He received his Master of Music from Florida State University and his Bachelor of Music from Southern Methodist University. He performed the role of Picasso in After Life this past fall in BU’s Fringe Festival. Other roles include Pandolfe in Cendrillon (UCONN), Dr. Grenville in La Traviata (FSU) and Alidoro in La Cenerentola (FSU). He will sing the role of Harasta in

The Cunning Little Vixen later this spring with the Opera Institute.

Julia Wolcott (Vera Donovan), soprano, of State College, Pennsylvania is a second year Boston University Opera Institute student studying with Penelope Bitzas. She attended the Pennsylvania State University and the Juilliard School. At the Opera Institute, Ms. Wolcott performed the role of Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring. Other favorite roles include Tulip in Bolcom’s A Wedding and Madame Lidoine in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Ms. Wolcott has been a young artist at the Aspen Music Festival, Charlottesville Opera, and the Castleton Festival.

She was previously a semi-finalist in the Dallas Opera Guild Competition, Premiere Opera Vocal Competition, and Opera Index, and a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Competition. This summer she will sing the role of Liza in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades at the Glimmerglass Festival, as well as Living Marie Antionette/ Revolutionary Woman in The Ghost of Versailles at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles.

Coming this spring from the School of Theatre Feb 28 - March 3 1984

Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall Jr., and William A. Miles Jr. From the novel by George Orwell Directed by Clay Hopper

Feb 22 - 24 EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM

By A. Rey Pamatmat Directed by Blair Cadden

Feb 24 - March 1 MR. BURNS, A POSTELECTRIC PLAY

By Anne Washburn Score by Michael Friedman Lyrics by Anne Washburn Directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo

March 5 - 8 MY FAIR LADY

Book & Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Directed by Avital Shira Music Direction by Mindy Cimini

March 11 NEW YORK THEATRE SHOWCASE

Helen Mills Event Space & Theater New York City

March 19 - 23 NEW WORKS FEST

Details to come at bu.edu/cfa/npi

April 18 - 21 INMOTION THEATRE: SUNLIGHT INTERIOR

Conceived & Directed by Yo-EL Cassell

April 18 - 28 DEAD HOUSE

By Beirut Balutis Directed by Adam Kassim A BU New Play Initiative production

Apr. 26 - May 5 THE LATHE OF HEAVEN

By Ursula Le Guin Adapted by Natsu Onoda Power Directed by Sara Katzoff

April 29 - May 2 THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN

Composer & Librettist: Leoš Janáček Conductor: William Lumpkin Stage Director: E. Loren Meeker Presented by School of Music: Opera Institute & School of Theatre

May 2 - 5 HORIZON LINE

Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey Adapted & Directed by Jeremy Ohringer

May 6 BOSTON THEATRE SHOWCASE

BFA Performance Showcase BFA and MFA Design & Production Showcase Exhibit and Reception

Tickets & more details at bu.edu/cfa/season.

School of Music

Spring 2019

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Mon, February 25 BU Symphony Orchestra

Sun, April 7 Faculty Recital: Vartan Aghababian, composer

Tue, February 26 Guest Piano Concert: Tali Morgulis

Mon, April 8 Percussion Ensemble Concert

Thu, February 28 Yarn/Wire Ensemble Concert

Wed, April 10 Beethoven Center Concert

BU Wind Ensemble

Wed, April 17 BU Singers Concert

Sun, March 3 Faculty Recital: Daniel Doña, viola

Thu, April 18 BU Wind Ensemble

Tue, March 5 BU Singers Concert

Wed, April 24 BU Symphony Orchestra

Guest Composer Concert

Fri, April 26 Time’s Arrow Concert

Wed, March 6 All Campus Orchestra and Concert Band

Sun, April 28 Deus Ex Machina

Thu, March 7 String Music with Bayla Keyes Mon, March 25 Time’s Arrow Concert Mon, April 1 BU Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Symphonic Chorus at Symphony Hall Wed, April 3 Muir String Quartet Thu, April 4 Trombone Choir Concert

Mon, April 29 - Thu, May 2 The Cunning Little Vixen opera at Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre Tue, April 30 All Campus Orchestra and Concert Band Wed, May 1 Baroque Chamber Concert Thu, May 2 Piano Ensemble Concert

Looking Out, Looking In Contemporary Artists from Morocco

Randa Maroufi, "Nabila et Keltoum," 2015

February 8 – March 31, 2019 Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery The exhibition is co-sponsored with Boston University’s African Studies Center, the Boston University Arts Initiative, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, the Department of History of Art & Architecture, and the Boston Cultural Council.

Exhibitions & gallery events are free and open to the public.

Panel Discussion “Looking at Morocco from Inside and Outside” Thursday, March 21, 2019, 6:00 pm Stone Gallery Curators Cynthia Becker (BU) and Nadia Sabri (University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco), will be joined by participating artist Randa Maroufi.

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College of Fine Arts Harvey Young Dana Clancy Shiela Kibbe Jim Petosa

Dean, College of Fine Arts Director, School of Visual Arts Director ad interim, School of Music Director, School of Theatre

School of Theatre McCaela Donovan Beth Barefoot Johnny Kontogiannis Adam Kassim Brian Dudley Allyson Beheler Penney Pinette Todd Burgun Emily Ranii

Assistant Director Business Manager Production Manager 855 Production Manager Administrative Coordinator; Administrative Program Head, BUSTI Administrative Coordinator, Design & Production Costume Shop Manager Scene Shop Manager Academic Program Head, BUSTI

Performance Faculty Judy Braha# Yo-EL Cassell Mark Cohen Kirsten Greenidge Christine Hamel Kyna Hamill Michael Hammond Clay Hopper Melodie Jeffery-Cassell Michael Kaye# Paula Langton#

Kristin Leahey Georgia Lyman Maurice Emmanuel Parent Jim Petosa Betsy Polatin Rebecca Schneebaum Matthew Stern Micki Taylor-Pinney Elaine Vaan Hogue# Ryan Winkles

Design & Production Faculty Jorge Arroyo Joel Brandwine# Diane Fargo Julie Hennrikus Nancy Leary# Collette Livingston James McCartney Seรกghan McKay

James Noone# David Remedios# Jon Savage# Mark Stanley# Cristina Todesco Mariann Verheyen# Denise Wallace-Spriggs Renee E. Yancey# #

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School of Music ADMINISTRATIVE

Oshin Gregorian Jill Pearson Megan Anthony ADMISSIONS AND STUDENT SERVICES

Laura Conyers Mitch Montealegre Barbara Raney Gilberto Cruz Stephanie Mao PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE

Christopher Dempsey Meredith Gangler Mary Gerbi Alexander Knutrud Xiaodan Liu Martin Snow Daniel Vozzolo UNIVERSITY ENSEMBLES

Michael Barsano Sharif Mamoun

Managing Director, Opera Institute & Opera Programs Business Manager Staff Assistant

Admissions Director Admissions Coordinator Student Services Manager Administrative Coordinator, Composition/Theory, Music Education, Musicology and Ethnomusicology Administrative Coordinator, Performance & Applied Studies, and Ensembles Director, Production and Performance Librarian, Music Curriculum Library Ensembles Manager Stage Manager Piano Technician Senior Piano Technician/Restorer Administrative Coordinator

Director, University Ensembles Assistant Director, Athletic Bands

School of Music Faculty STRINGS Steven Ansell viola* Edwin Barker double bass* Heather Braun violin Lynn Chang violin Hye Min Choi viola Carolyn Davis Fryer double bass Daniel Doña pedagogy, chamber* Rachel Fagerburg viola Franziska Huhn harp Mihail Jojatu cello Bayla Keyes violin * Hyun-Ji Kwon cello Michelle LaCourse viola *++ Warren Levenson guitar *

Full-time faculty

Benjamin Levy double bass Lucia Lin violin * Malcolm Lowe violin Dana Mazurkevich violin Yuri Mazurkevich violin * Ikuko Mizuno violin Richard Nangle guitar George Neikrug cello Michael Reynolds cello * Rhonda Rider cello Todd Seeber double bass Klaudia Szlachta violin Lawrence Wolfe double bass Michael Zaretsky viola Peter Zazofsky violin * Jessica Zhou harp

++ Department Chairs

PIANO Victor Cayres Gila Goldstein * ++ Linda Jiorle-Nagy * Pavel Nersesiyan * Konstantinos Papadakis Boaz Sharon * COLLABORATIVE PIANO Javier Arrebola * ++ Shiela Kibbe * Melinda Lee Masur chamber Robert Merfeld ORGAN Peter Sykes * ++ continued >

School of Music Faculty continued VOICE Michael Beattie oratorio Penelope Bitzas * Sharon Daniels * James Demler * Lynn Eustis * Phyllis Hoffman * ++ Betsy Polatin Tara Stadelman-Cohen pedagogy Douglas Sumi * vocal coaching and repertoire Kevin Wilson pedagogy WOODWINDS, BRASS & PERCUSSION Ken Amis tuba Jennifer Bill saxophone Kyle Brightwell percussion Geralyn Coticone flute Terry Everson trumpet * John Ferrillo oboe Timothy Genis percussion Nancy Goeres bassoon Bruce Hall trumpet Ronald Haroutunian bassoon John Heiss flute Renee Krimsier flute Gabriel Langfur tenor/bass trombone Kai-Yun Lu clarinet Don Lucas trombone *++ David Martins clarinet * Mark McEwen oboe Toby Oft trombone Elizabeth Ostling flute Margaret Phillips bassoon Andrew Price oboe Kenneth Radnofsky saxophone Mike Roylance tuba/ euphonium Eric Ruske horn * Robert Sheena English horn Thomas Siders trumpet Jason Snider horn Samuel Solomon percussion Richard Stoltzman clarinet Linda Toote flute *

Sarah Freiberg Ellison cello Greg Ingles sackbut Laura Jeppesen viola da gamba Christopher Krueger baroque flute Catherine Liddell lute Douglas Lundeen natural horn Robinson Pyle natural trumpet Gonzalo Ruiz baroque oboe Aaron Sheehan voice Jane Starkman baroque violin/viola Peter Sykes harpsichord *++ MUSICOLOGY AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Marié Abe * Michael Birenbaum Quintero* Victor Coelho * ++ Genevieve Dempsey Brita Heimarck * Miki Kaneda * Lewis Lockwood Joshua Rifkin * Andrew Shenton * Rachana Vajjhala * Jeremy Yudkin * COMPOSITION AND THEORY Vartan Aghababian Martin Amlin *++ Deborah Burton * Justin Casinghino Richard Cornell * Joshua Fineberg * Samuel Headrick * David Kopp * Rodney Lister * Mary Montgomery Koppel Ketty Nez * Andrew Smith John H. Wallace * Steven Weigt * Jason Yust *

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE Aldo Abreu recorder

MUSIC EDUCATION Kevin Coyne Diana Dansereau * Ruth Debrot *

* Full-time faculty

++ Department Chairs

André de Quadros *++ Andrew Goodrich * Karin Hendricks * Ronald Kos * Tavis Linsin * Tawnya Smith * Kinh Vu * ENSEMBLES Jennifer Bill Leland Clarke * Aaron Goldberg * William Lumpkin *++ David Martins * Mark Miller Jason Saetta James Sparks * Bramwell Tovey * OPERA INSTITUTE Gary Durham Daniela Fagnani Angela Gooch Matthew Larson * William Lumpkin * Jim Petosa Emily Ranii Melinda Sullivan-Friedman Nathan Troup Allison Voth * Ryan Winkles EMERITUS David Hoose conducting Ann Howard Jones conducting Mark Kroll historical performance Joy McIntyre voice William McManus music education George Neikrug cello Sandra Nicolucci music education STAFF PIANISTS Michelle Beaton voice Anna Carr voice Siu Yan Luk strings Clera Ryu voice Lorena Tecu * strings Chelsea Whitaker voice

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Boston University College of Fine Arts

Established in 1954, Boston University College of Fine Arts (CFA) is a community of artist-scholars and scholar-artists who are passionate about the fine and performing arts, committed to diversity and inclusion, and determined to improve the lives of others through art. With programs in music, theatre, and visual arts, CFA prepares students for a meaningful creative life by developing their intellectual capacity to create art, shift perspective, think broadly, and master essential 21st-century skills. CFA offers a wide array of precollege, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, as well as a range of online degrees and certificates. Learn more at bu.edu/cfa.

Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute

The Opera Institute at CFA School of Music is an intensive, highly selective two-year performance-based training program for emerging operatic artists.

A professional faculty and renowned guest artists provide personal support and training in all areas pertinent to a career in opera, including voice, acting, languages, and movement styles. Additionally, the Opera Institute also selects undergraduate and graduate singers from the School of Music who demonstrate true operatic potential and have mastered an intermediate integration of acting, vocal, and movement skills for the Opera Theater, Opera Workshop, and Opera Project programs.

Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre

The School of Theatre at the College of Fine Arts at Boston University is a leading conservatory for the study of acting, stage management, design, production, and all aspects of the theatre profession. These programs of study are enriched by the School’s access to the greater liberal arts programs at Boston University. The School of Theatre values the notion of “the new conservatory” and seeks to provide students with opportunities for artistic growth through a rigorous curriculum, professional connections, and an emphasis on collaboration and new work.

Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre

Opened in December 2017, this bold, state-of-the-art structure encourages innovation, conversation, and collaboration. The flexible design of Booth Theatre allows for the inventive evolution of performances and a deep engagement with audiences. Research is at the core of Boston University, and the College of Fine Arts practices it every day in the form of creative experimentation. Booth Theatre and the adjacent CFA Production Center are laboratories for such research, and in every detail, they are purpose-built for discovery. The Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre is funded in part by a $10 million gift from BU Trustee Stephen M. Zide (LAW’86), who named the venue in honor of his wife’s parents for sharing their passion for the dramatic arts with him and his family. Learn more at bu.edu/booth.

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