Central City Opera 2019 Festival Program

PAINTING BY GREGG CHADWICK.

NOV. 2 5 8 10 2019

THE ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE

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GIOACHINO ROSSINI Composer

ARI PELTO Conductor OMER BEN SEADIA Director ANDREW STENSON Count Almaviva MEGAN MARINO Rosina BRUNO TADDIA Figaro STEFANO DE PEPPO Dr. Bartolo HAROLD WILSON Don Basilio

FEB. 27 29 MAR. 1 2020

THE ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE

SPOTLIGHT ON TRAGEDY The public adores Canio’s clowning— but they’re about to witness the shocking consequences of his rage.

Art imitates life (and vice versa) in this opera about the turbulent relationships within a traveling theater troupe.

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RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO Composer

ARI PELTO Conductor DAVID LEFKOWICH Director JOHN PICKLE Canio CECILIA VIOLETTA LÓPEZ Nedda WILL LIVERMAN Silvio LEVI HERNANDEZ Tonio JONATHAN JOHNSON Beppe

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A HIGH-STAKES THRILLER A corrupt chief of police has a cruel ultimatum for Rome’s most celebrated prima donna, Tosca: submit to his lustful desires, or trigger the execution of her beloved. Who will survive this web of betrayal and revenge?

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Composer ARI PELTO Conductor LUISA MUELLER Director MELISSA CITRO Tosca RAFAEL DAVILA Cavaradossi LUIS LEDESMA Scarpia STEFANO DE PEPPO Sacristan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

G R E G G C H A DW I C K Gregg Chadwick has exhibited his work in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. He has had notable solo exhibitions at the Manifesta Maastricht Gallery (Maastricht, The Netherlands), Space AD 2000 (Tokyo, Japan) and the Sandra Lee Gallery (San Francisco), among many others and has participated in nearly 100 group exhibitions across the U.S. Chadwick’s art is also notably included in the collections of the Adobe Corporation, Gilpin Museum, National Museum of the Marine Corps, Nordstrom Company Headquarters and W Hotel Hollywood.

Chadwick is frequently invited to lecture on the arts. In the past six years he spoke at The Representational Art Conference, World View Forum in Amsterdam and Categorically Not, along with numerous university engagements.

This is the second time that Gregg Chadwick has been commissioned to create paintings to illustrate Central City Opera's summer festival. greggchadwick.com

COMPANY

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Chairman of the Board’s Letter General/Artistic Director’s Letter 2020 Festival Board of Directors | Volunteer Leadership

CENTRAL CITY OPERA

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Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Education Programs Preserving the Past Festival Schedule Festival Extras Short Works

PRODUCTIONS

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MADAMA BUTTERFLY BILLY BUDD THE BLESSED DAMOZEL LITANIES TO THE BLACK VIRGIN ENCORE: A MUSICAL REVUE

PEOPLE

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Company Profiles Developing Artist Apprentice Artists Studio Artists Festival Orchestra Administration

SUPPORT

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Yellow Rose Society Donor Spotlight Community Support Central City Opera Guild Tributes | In Honor Tributes | In Memory L'Esprit de Noël Theatre of Dreams Gala Special Thanks Flower Girls

OTHER INFORMATION

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Repertory Credits and Acknowledgements

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FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

JUDITH W. GRANT

Strength and Stability Welcome to the 87th Central City Opera Summer Festival! On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I thank you for being with us and for your continuing support.

Looking back at 2018 and then forward into our 2019 Festival and all that it holds, I am again struck by these same guideposts which inform all that we do at Central City Opera.

Staff.

First and foremost, our staff, led by General/Artistic Director Pelham Pearce. This stellar group will jump in, fill a need, and put the opera first. Always with a smile. I have watched this firsthand.

Quality.

Our product is second to none. The Festival performances speak for themselves — first rate, often cutting edge, always superior in every way. Strength and stability you can count on day in, day out.

Leadership.

A dedicated group of men and women who are constantly looking for ways to ensure that Central City Opera is here for the long term — at least another 87 years.

Future Goals. Our upcoming endowment campaign, Voice Your Dreams, is designed to make sure that this opera company will continue to “sing extraordinary stories to spark imagination, inspire creativity, and open minds to the breadth of human experience.”

Finances.

Always a current topic with any non-profit, especially in the arts. Our recent decision to hire a CFO in February of 2019 confirms our pledge to be financially secure. We are committed to being an arts organization that can hold its head high from both an artistic and a business point of view.

Central City Opera was built to last. We honor the continuing legacy from the Cornish and Welsh miners whose example guides us today. The stones in the opera house, the yellow roses blooming along Eureka Street, and our historic collection of Victorian houses remind us of the steadfastness that precedes us and that steers us in the years to come. We cannot let those people down.

It’s what we do. Every day.

It’s what we do — for you.

Warmly,

Judith W. Grant Chairman of the Board

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FROM THE GENERAL/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PELHAM G. PEARCE, JR.

Welcome to Central City Opera’s 2019 Festival, We welcome all to this special, uniquely Colorado place — from the operaphile to the neophyte! Central City Opera is pleased to offer you a very diverse and interesting mix of experiences this summer. Beginning with the beautiful Madama Butterfly of Puccini, continuing through Britten’s amazing Billy Budd, as well as the angelic sounds of Poulenc and Debussy and ending with a taste of Broadway in Encore: A Musical Revue, this season is a satisfying journey. I have made it my mission to curate a season for you every summer that is an exciting mix of repertory designed to show the breadth of work possible in this art form. And, that work is only enhanced when we create it for this unique, historic theater which we are lucky to call home.

If this is your first time in Central City, I encourage you to come back and enjoy more of what this season has to offer — including the second annual Central City Plein Air Festival at the end of September. It will feature visual artists from all over the country who come to paint this beautiful place. More information about this and other offerings can be found as you explore this program book.

We are currently finalizing plans for our 2020 Festival which will feature new productions of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. We will welcome back old friends and introduce new artists to this special place. It promises to be another season not to be missed!

We do our best to help you enjoy your time here. If you have suggestions, we would love to hear them.

Please send them to admin@centralcityopera.org, and we will put them “in the hopper” as we continue to work on making the art we produce and the experience of coming here more accessible and inviting.

Thank you for joining us, and I hope that your Central City Opera adventure is unforgettable.

Sincerely,

Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. General/Artist Director

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ANNOUNCING THE 2020 FESTIVAL

Central City Opera House painting by 2018 Plein Air Festival Best in Show Winner Robin Weiss | robinweissfineart.com

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DIDO AND AENEAS HENRY PURCELL

BOARD OF DIRECTORS | VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP

Judith W. Grant, Chairman Roopesh Aggarwal, President Dr. Gregg Kvistad, Treasurer Michael Huseby, Secretary Nancy S. Parker, Immediate Past Chairman J. Landis Martin, Chairman Emeritus Daniel L. Ritchie, Chairman Emeritus DIRECTORS

Gail Gordon James R. Hilger, Jr. Larry J. Manion Edward C. Nichols Daniel L. Ritchie Elizabeth Rostermundt Robert D. Showalter Phoebe Smedley George Ann Victor

Margaret Baker Pamela Bansbach Maureen K. Barker Kristin Bender Nancy P. Brittain Linda Fullerton Clark Melinda Couzens Michelle Moritz Dorman Ron Engels Richard A. Goozh Chris Haugen Heath C. Hutchison Kevin Kearney Hilton G. Martin Anne McGonagle Heather Kemper Miller Mark Ragan Susan B. Rawley Sarah Rogers Raquel Schaps Laura Trask Schneider Brian M. Weldon Robert “Sonny” Wiegand II Carole J. Yaley

EX-OFFICIO BOARD

HONORARY BOARD

Alice Bass Dallas, TX

Gerald Bader The Honorable Jack W. Berryhill Barbara Danos Robert A. Ellis Barbara Ferguson Jeannie Fuller The Honorable Robert P. Fullerton

Karen Ritz President, Central City Opera Guild Dr. Rebecca Chopp Chancellor, University of Denver The Honorable Michael B. Hancock Mayor, City of Denver The Honorable Jeremy Fey Mayor, City of Central The Honorable Jared Polis Governor, State of Colorado

Central City Opera continues to build its advocacy councils to represent the Company and to bring an important perspective regarding trends throughout the world of opera.

NATIONAL ADVOCACY COUNCIL Elisabeth M. Armstrong, Chairman Dallas, TX

REGIONAL ADVOCACY COUNCIL Roger Ames Judeth and Doug Comstock Tricia Dickinson William Lynn Dixon Nancy Hemming Tammy and Tom Kenning Marcia Ragonetti Karen Ritz Linda Weise Andrew Yarosh ENDOWMENT FUND BOARD J. Landis Martin, President Nancy S. Parker, Secretary/Treasurer Roopesh Aggarwal Dr. Gregg Kvistad Jim Palenchar Julia Secor Robert A. Unger VOICE YOUR DREAMS ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Anne McGonagle, Chairman Lanny and Sharon Martin, Honorary Chairs Daniel L. Ritchie, Honorary Chair Nancy P. Brittain Melinda Couzens Judy and Newell Grant Nancy S. Parker Karen Ritz

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2019 ARTIST SPONSORSHIPS El Pomar Foundation Aaren Rivard • Central City Opera Guild Véronique Filloux • Denver Lyric Opera Guild Matthew Peterson

left: the magic flute, 2018. right: acis and galatea, 2018. photos by amanda tipton.

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE with the Sound of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program

BY ERIN OSOVETS

Trainees earn...above all else, the experience of a lifetime.

CENTRAL CITY OPERA STANDS OUT for reasons beyond its altitude, history and beauty — it’s also ground zero for one of the summer’s premier professional development programs in opera, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program. For ten weeks every summer, gifted young singers are selected through a rigorous audition process and ascend to the town for top of the line coaching and training in diction, movement, acting, stage technique and career preparation. The streets of Central City come alive with the rousing sounds of the 30 trainees, who live side by side with locals and professional performers as they rehearse and soak in the lessons offered in this rare setting.

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Provided the chance for exposure in secondary roles, understudy positions and chorus, the Program categorizes trainees into two tiers: Apprentice Artist and Studio Artist. Apprentice Artists have solid educational and professional performance backgrounds and are continuing to develop the vocal and acting skills necessary for a lasting career in opera. Studio Artists are younger singers, often in the process of completing degrees in performance, who have demonstrated potential and are seeking professional experience beyond their college or university. Trainees earn a salary with benefits, the possibility of additional performance compensation and above all else, the experience of a lifetime. Over 800

applications are received each year for the prestigious program, which has trained many of America’s most notable young opera professionals, including: Denyce Graves, Alan Held, Cynthia Lawrence, Margaret Lattimore, Mary Mills, Emily Pulley, Greg Turay, Latonia Moore, Matthew Polenzani, Jesus Garcia, Chad Shelton, Daniel Belcher and Celena Shafer.

The 2019 season marks the inauguration of Michael Baitzer as the Director of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program. A fixture of the Central City Opera music staff since 1999, Michael has been the Festival’s Principal Coach since 2012 and is the Head of Music Staff at Washington National Opera. An active coach and collaborative pianist, Michael has served on the

faculties of many other premier programs, most recently Wolf Trap Opera Company, The Juilliard School, Spoleto Festival USA and Aspen Music Festival and School.

Combined with the expertise of Stage Director/Acting Instructor Ken Cazan, Movement Coach/Choreographer Melinda Sullivan and Stage Combat Instructor Erick Wolfe, the Training Program remains committed to the vision enacted by Artistic Director Emeritus John Moriarty in 1978.

When audiences attend performances at Central City Opera, they get an exclusive glimpse into the future of opera and a sneak peek at its rising stars.

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EDUCATION PROGRAMS

THE MUSIC DOESN'T STOP AFTER THE FESTIVAL

Cultivating Young Opera Fans in Colorado throughout the Year

BY ERIN OSOVETS “Can you break a glass with your voice?” a fourth grader asks one of Central City Opera’s touring sopranos.

THIS IS THE KIND OF HUMOROUS — and valid — information that kids want to know about the thrilling art form of opera when they hear it in person for the first time. A key focus of Central City Opera’s mission is to introduce children, families and educators to opera and classical music. An additional 40,000 people experienced a slice of the summer Festival in 2018 through educational performances and workshops across the region.

This year, Central City Opera expanded its reach with Family Series performances of Mozart & Co., an interactive show for children and their parents that brings to life scenes from hilarious stories originally envisioned by Shakespeare and the Brothers Grimm.

“Kids love opera,” says Emily Murdock, associate director of Central City Opera’s Education program. “They love being close to loud voices, they love the storytelling and they love the spectacle.”

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Kids indeed gravitate towards the goofy, fun, dynamic elements of the programs that Central City Opera performs in schools. How The West Was Sung is an assembly show that showcases frontier history through the stories of Leadville Silver King Horace Tabor and his beautiful wife Baby Doe; the Unsinkable Molly Brown; Clara Brown, a freed slave and Colorado pioneer; and other assorted western characters. With En Mis Palabras/ In My Own Words, middle school students identify with the struggle between a teen and her parent through a modern-day, bilingual opera that features four singers accompanied by piano and classical guitar.

“The beauty of our programming is that we are presenting legitimate opera and music theater, sung by seasoned opera singers, but in a way that meets kids on their level.

They’re being exposed to opera as a creative medium and sometimes they don’t even know that they are being ‘taught,’” says Emily.

Cultivating awareness about opera in broad audiences, particularly in children, is at the heart of Central City

“Can you break a glass with your voice?"

Opera’s mission and is essential to cementing the future of this beloved musical genre. With kids, everything is a teachable moment. Through scholarships funded by generous individuals and foundations, Central City Opera is able to bring its touring shows and classroom curriculum to students of all income levels, dismantling the perception that opera is only for adults.

“The students were so surprised and awestruck,” says a teacher from Skyline Vista Elementary in Westminster.

“We had mini operas in all classes — with multiple conflicts and usually happy resolutions!”

To learn more about Central City Opera’s educational programming, visit centralcityopera.org/education.

en mis palabras, 2018. photo by amanda tipton.

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WHAT’S THE SECRET of depicting a naval ship on the Opera House stage for Billy Budd?

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PRESERVING THE PAST

THE JOHNSON HOUSE:

A LOVE STORY THROUGH THE AGES

BY ERIN OSOVETS Maude A. Lowe. Henry was a dapper pillar of the community who sold English mining stock and managed several local mines, boosting the economy and turning abandoned properties back into successful operations. His gracious and charming wife Maude was known for her stylish parties and exotic rose garden.

WITH OVER 150 YEARS OF HISTORY, the Johnson House at 201 Eureka has stood as a testament to love, loss and the resilience of the town it inhabits. One of 29 historic properties that Central City Opera owns and maintains today, the Johnson House’s connection to Central City Opera is more binding than just sharing the same street.

The people who lived in and restored the home over time have ingrained within its walls the same love they held for the Opera. It’s through their generosity and dedication that the house built in 1867 still stands today.

Said to be the first home in Central City to have indoor plumbing, the white Gable Front/Folk Victorian with classic columns is the namesake of its fourth owners.

However, before the Johnsons donated it to the Opera in 1961, the house enjoyed a colorful plethora of residents.

Its first owner, Judge Henry A. Hicks, was elected the Gilpin County Attorney in 1900 and called Central City his home until moving in 1908 to practice law in Denver. He remained invested in Central City as a stockholder with the Rocky Mountain National Bank, which was located in the Teller House, another historic property owned and preserved by Central City Opera.

The true love story of the Johnson House is told through the lives of its second owners, Henry Pope Lowe and

The couple lived in the Johnson House and used the building across the street, now known as Festival Hall, as an office. When Henry died tragically of pneumonia in 1920, Maude buried his ashes behind the house and moved into Festival Hall, where she was reclusive.

She continued to set the dinner table for two and kept Henry’s hat and coat hanging in the front hall, as if she was waiting for him to return at any minute. In 1956, she donated Festival Hall to the Central City Opera Association and died a year later. Henry’s ashes were exhumed from behind the Johnson House and both Maude’s and his ashes were scattered in her garden behind Festival Hall.

In 1961, Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson purchased the home and gifted it to Central City Opera. Twenty years later, James Hartley of Hartley House Interiors and his wife Barbara Johnson, daughter of Helen and Arthur, lovingly repaired and redecorated the house with wallpaper and coverings in patterns of the 1800s.

Today, the Johnson House enters a new era of restoration, thanks to the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) who have generously taken on the task of the latest remodel. The story of the home continues to unfold — one of care, integrity and love for the Opera, all thanks to the Western pioneers who saw a future for Central City.

Learn more about the Johnson House Preservation Project at centralcityopera.org/johnson-house.

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2019 | FESTIVAL SCHEDULE SAT JULY 6

TUE JULY 16

SUN JULY 21

SAT JULY 27

THU AUGUST 1

5:00 pm

1:15 pm

11:45 am

10:00 am

1:00 pm

Opening Night Dinner

Short Works

Lunch & a Song

Opera Bus - Denver

DAMOZEL/LITANIES

7:15 pm

1:45 pm

1:15 pm

10:45 am

1:45 pm

Opera Notes

Opera Notes

Short Works

Opera Bus - Lakewood

Opera Notes

8:00 pm

2:30 pm

1:45 pm

11:45 am

2:30 pm

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Opera Notes

Lunch & a Song

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

2:30 pm

1:15 pm

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

BILLY BUDD

Short Works

TALKBACK

1:45 pm

FRI AUGUST 2

Opera Notes

10:30 am

2:30 pm

Opera Inside Out

WED JULY 10 10:00 am

WED JULY 17

Opera Bus - Denver

10:00 am

10:45 am

Opera Bus - Denver

TUE JULY 23

Opera Bus - Lakewood

10:30 am

1:00 pm

BILLY BUDD

1:15 pm

11:45 am

Opera Inside Out

DAMOZEL/LITANIES

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

Short Works

Lunch & a Song

10:45 am

1:45 pm

1:15 pm

Opera Bus - Lakewood

Opera Notes

SUN JULY 28

Short Works

11:45 am

2:30 pm

11:45 am

2:30 pm

1:45 pm

Lunch & a Song

BILLY BUDD

Lunch & a Song

BILLY BUDD

Opera Notes

1:15 pm

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

1:15 pm

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

2:30 pm

Short Works

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

1:45 pm

WED JULY 24

1:45 pm

SAT AUGUST 3

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

Opera Notes

10:00 am

Opera Notes

8:00 pm

2:30 pm

Boomer Bus - Denver

2:30 pm

BILLY BUDD

10:45 am

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

ENCORE: A MUSICAL REVUE

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

Boomer Bus - Lakewood

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

FRI JULY 12 1:15 pm Short Works 1:45 pm

THU JULY 18

Opera Notes

Opera Notes

SUN AUGUST 4

DAMOZEL/LITANIES

TUE JULY 30

7:15 pm

1:45 pm

11:30 am

Opera Notes

2:30 pm

Opera Notes

Opera Notes

Opera Adventures

2:30 pm

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

8:00 pm

2:30 pm

2:30 pm

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

MADAMA BUTTERFLY & CLOSING CEREMONY

SAT JULY 13

FRI JULY 19

FAMILY MATINEE MADAMA BUTTERFLY

5:00 pm

7:15 pm

THU JULY 25

Opening Night Dinner

Opera Notes

7:15 pm

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

1:45 pm

7:15 pm

TUE AUGUST 6

Opera Notes

2:30 pm

7:15 pm

8:00 pm

8:00 pm

Opera Notes

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

ENCORE: A MUSICAL REVUE

Opera Notes

BILLY BUDD

8:00 pm

8:00 pm

POST-OP

BILLY BUDD

BILLY BUDD

WED JULY 31 10:00 am

SAT JULY 20

FRI JULY 26

10:30 am

7:15 pm

10:45 am

10:00 am

Opera Inside Out

Opera Notes

Boomer Bus - Lakewood

Opera Bus - Denver

11:45 am

8:00 pm

1:00 pm

10:45 am

Lunch & a Song

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

DAMOZEL/LITANIES

Opera Bus - Lakewood

1:15 pm

POST-OP

1:45 pm

11:45 am

Short Works

Opera Notes

Lunch & a Song

1:45 pm

2:30 pm

1:15 pm

Opera Notes

BILLY BUDD

Short Works

2:30 pm

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

1:45 pm

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Opera Notes

ARTISTS MIX & MINGLE

SUN JULY 14

2:30 pm

MADAMA BUTTERFLY TALKBACK

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Boomer Bus - Denver

Boomer and Opera Buses leave from the Bed, Bath and Beyond parking lot, 370 S. Colorado Blvd, Glendale at 10 am.

Boomer and Opera Buses leave from the Simms Steakhouse parking lot, 11911 W 6th Avenue, Lakewood at 10:45 am.

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MUSIC Lunch & a Song, Teller House 30 minute solo performances preceded by lunch to whet your vocal appetite Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee, Opera House Child-friendly, narrated matinee of Madama Butterfly performed

by Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists, followed by an autograph session. TIP: bring a picnic, and add on pre-show Opera Adventures activities Short Works, Williams Stables Theater Engaging short scenes for opera veterans or virgins Post-Op*, Teller House Impromptu performances by Festival artists and cash bar after select weekend evening shows

INSIGHT Opera Inside Out, Opera House Behind the scenes tours for all ages Opera Notes*, Williams Stables Theater Free pre-performance talks 45 minutes before main stage shows Boomer Bus, from Denver and Lakewood An insider’s look at Central City Opera and its historic mining town. Experience a live presentation and a champagne toast on the ride to Central City as well as a buffet lunch and conversation with a member of the production team

C E L E B R AT I O N Artists Mix & Mingle*, Teller House deck Meet the stars and enjoy a cash bar after matinee performances Weather permitting Opera Bus, from Denver and Lakewood Leave the driving to us! Ride the Opera Bus for a scenic drive to Central City * FREE event

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free and open to the public CENTRAL CITY OPERA PRESENTS

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The Central City Business Improvement District

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: The City of Central | Gilpin County Arts Association

THE MOZART REQUIEM AND OTHER FEATURED WORKS In special collaboration with Denver Philharmonic Orchestra and Performing Arts Academy

Friday, November 15 7:30 pm • Saturday, November 16 3:00 pm • Antonia Brico Stage at Central Presbyterian Church 1660 Sherman Street | Denver, CO

centralcityopera.org/plein-air SOLOISTS

Anna Christy, Abigail Nims, Matthew Plenk, Eric J. McConnell

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SHORT WORKS

Michael Baitzer, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Director

Short Works feature Studio Artists from the acclaimed BonfilsStanton Foundation Artists Training Program in 30 minute programs of staged scenes from opera and musical theater.

Hosted by Program Director Michael Baitzer.

Performed in Williams Stables Theater.

See the Festival schedule on page 22 for Short Works performance times and dates.

Little Women MARK ADAMO Act II The Letter Scene Jo March Gabrielle Barkidjija Laurie Lawrence Zach M. Goldman Meg March Virginia Reed Beth March Leah Brzyski Amy March Christine Oh John Brooke Christopher Stanfill Alma March Jesse Mashburn Gideon March Blake Jennings Musical Director John Arida Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller Candide LEONARD BERNSTEIN Act I “The Best of All Possible Worlds” Candide Benjamin DaCosta-Kaufman Dr. Pangloss Dylan Davis Cunegonde Leah Brzyski Maximilian Christopher Stanfill Paquette Virginia Reed Musical Director Peter Walsh Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller A Midsummer Night’s Dream BENJAMIN BRITTEN Act III “We are Awake” Lysander Benjamin DaCosta-Kaufman Demetrius Garrett Obrycki Helena Madeline Ehlinger Hermia Jesse Mashburn Musical Director Michael Baitzer Stage Director Gregory Boyle L’elisir d’amore GAETANO DONIZETTI Act I “Caro Elisir! Sei mio! ...Esulti pur la barbara” Nemorino Dylan Davis Adina Christine Oh Belcore Garrett Obrycki Musical Director Thomas Getty Stage Director Gregory Boyle Hansel and Gretel ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Act II “I shut the children’s peepers...

When at night I go to sleep” Hansel Virginia Reed Gretel Christine Oh Sandman Leah Brzyski Musical Director John Arida Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller

Così fan tutte W. A. MOZART Act I “Dove son?... Soave sia il vento” Fiordiligi Madeline Ehlinger Dorabella Virginia Reed Don Alfonso Andrew Simpson Musical Director Peter Walsh Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller Le nozze di Figaro W. A. MOZART Act III “Riconosci in questo amplesso” Marcellina Jesse Mashburn Figaro Andrew Simpson Susanna Christine Oh Il conte Joseph Mazzara Bartolo Blake Jennings Don Curzio Zach M. Goldman Musical Director Thomas Getty Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller Dialogues of the Carmelites FRANCIS POULENC Act I “Again? I’m so tired of lentils…”

Blanche Madeline Ehlinger Constance Leah Brzyski Musical Director John Arida Stage Director Gregory Boyle L’enfant et les sortilèges MAURICE RAVEL Part I “Ah! C’est elle! C’est elle!”

L’enfant Gabrielle Barkidjija La princesse Leah Brzyski Musical Director Peter Walsh Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller A Little Night Music STEPHEN SONDHEIM Act I “Every Day a Little Death” Charlotte Jesse Mashburn Anne Leah Brzyski Musical Director Michael Baitzer Stage Director Gregory Boyle Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II Act I “To part is such sweet sorrow” Rosalinda Madeline Ehlinger Adele Christine Oh Eisenstein Joseph Mazzara Musical Director Thomas Getty Stage Director Gregory Boyle

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UPCOMING EVENTS

JULY 28 ARIAS AND APÉRITIFS

A rare opportunity – cocktails and tapas with the cast of Madama Butterfly

OCTOBER 3-6 NEW ORLEANS

Carmen in the Crescent City

NOVEMBER OVERTURE

Attend the auditions for the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program

IT’S CENTRAL TO OUR FUTURE

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GIACOMO PUCCINI LIBRETTO Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica CONDUCTOR Adam Turner DIRECTOR Alison Moritz ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Gregory Boyle ORIGINAL SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGNER Dany Lyne COSTUME COORDINATOR Dana Tzvetkov LIGHTING DESIGNER David Martin Jacques WIG/MAKEUP DESIGNER Ronell Oliveri ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER Stefano Sarzani* MUSICAL PREPARATION John Arida, Michael Baitzer and Peter Walsh CULTURAL CONSULTANT Margaret Ozaki Graves STAGE MANAGER Rachel L. Ginzberg ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Emily E. Duffin SUPERTITLES Thomas Getty *Conducting July 18 and July 30, 2019 Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee

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MADAMA BUTTERFLY | CAST

CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE

GONZÁLEZ

ROSEN

LT. BENJAMIN F. PINKERTON GORO SUZUKI

SHARPLESS

CIO-CIO SAN COUSIN

MOTHER

UNCLE YAKUSIDE AUNT IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER REGISTRAR

THE BONZE

PRINCE YAMADORI

KATE PINKERTON

DOLORE

AUSTIN

COOK

Cody Austin Joseph Gaines Annie Rosen Troy Cook Raquel González Jennifer Russo Melanie Ashkar Christopher Stanfill Amanda Olea Sean Stanton Joseph Mazzara Brian Kontes Thaddeus Ennen Christina Pezzarossi Isla Burdette

The conductor’s podium is endowed in perpetuity by the Eleanore Mullen Weckbaugh Foundation.

The matinee performance of this production on July 30 is presented by The Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee Performance Fund.

Assisted listening devices generously donated by Myra B. Levy.

CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL SPONSORS Avenir Foundation, Inc. • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation • Central City Opera House Association Endowment Fund Lanny and Sharon Martin • Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District PRESENTING SPONSORS Pamela and Louis Bansbach • Central City Opera Guild • Estate of Walt and Mary-Ruth Duncan • El Pomar Foundation Judy and Newell Grant • Colleen Healey Charitable Fund advised by Robert Wiegand II • The Virginia W. Hill Foundation • OPERA America, Inc. PRODUCTION SPONSORS Always Best Care Senior Services • Nancy P. Brittain • Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Huseby • Nancy S. Parker PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Anonymous • Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Bader, Jr. • Michelle and Mark Dorman Mrs. Charles L. Ferguson • Ms. Anne J. Fleming • Richard and Rebecca Goozh • Lloyd J. King and Eleanor R. King Foundation Jeanne Land Foundation • LARRK Foundation • Priester Foundation • Trask Family Foundation • Pam and Sonny Wiegand

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MADAMA BUTTERFLY

HISTORICAL CONTEXT WITH DIRECTOR ALISON MORITZ WHEN COMMODORE MATTHEW PERRY AND THE UNITED STATES NAVY SAILED TO JAPAN IN 1853, the small island country had been culturally and commercially isolated for over two centuries. Only a few Dutch and Chinese merchants accessed Japanese trade via the port town of Nagasaki (where our story today takes place).

In 1859, when agreements between the U.S. and Japan were finally reached, Nagasaki was one of only four cities opened for foreign residence. This setting, then, has always been uniquely exposed to the presence of outsiders.

As foreigners began to arrive, however, they were generally unwelcome in Japan, and Americans were considered to be brutish and even monstrous. But Japan had recently seen British forces almost completely destroy neighboring China’s navy during the Opium Wars. As a result, the Japanese response to British and American presence on their shores was rapid modernization and militarization. By 1867, reform was sweeping the country.

Emperor Meiji moved into the shogunate palace and gave the city of Edo its modern name — Tokyo.

“Madama Butterfly provides us with a gripping look at the costs of social change.”

Far from being a quaint or irrelevant story, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly provides us with a gripping look at the costs of social change. In this case, neither tradition nor progress is sacrosanct — each way of life comes at a very high price. And although Butterfly, Suzuki, Pinkerton, Sharpless and Kate may be our ancestors — they still have much to tell us about the present day.

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PUCCINI AND EXOTICISM

BY MARGARET SIEGRIST AND DR. PAUL HALVERSON LAST PERFORMED AT CENTRAL CITY OPERA IN 2010, Madama Butterfly is one of the best-loved pieces in the operatic repertoire and regularly ranks among the top ten most produced operas nationwide.

Exoticism permeated visual art, architecture, literature and even performing arts in the mid-nineteenth century as West met East for the first time in generations. Japanese

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fiction rose as a popular literary genre, and out of that trend, the source material of Puccini’s opera emerged.

He first experienced the story of the Madama Butterfly character in a one-act play by American playwright David Belasco, based on a short story by John Luther Long (1898) that compiled first-hand accounts of life in Japan and elements of fiction.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

“Madama Butterfly has stood the test of time by provoking the kind of

powerful discourse

that fuels introspection and growth.”

Known as a contributor to verismo [vair-EEZ-mo] style — meaning his operas aimed to portray the world as it really was and/or illustrate relatable experiences — Puccini immediately drew inspiration from Butterfly’s personal psychological drama. Just a few short years later, Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala.

It might come as a surprise to the modern audience that the opera was highly criticized throughout its early years. Puccini’s publisher, Casa Ricordi, expressed serious uncertainties from the start, considering the story “an insipid tearjerker unworthy of the composer.” Puccini, however, relished the opportunity to hone his theatrical abilities and augment his orchestral palette. Biographer Julian Budden suggests that in Madama Butterfly, Puccini was “sustaining greater and more-prismatic focus on his tragic heroine than he had ever attempted before.”

the opera fall short in terms of dramatic pacing, but unlucky errors with props resulted in unwelcome and unintentional humor on stage. Determined, Puccini wrote to a friend “Don’t worry, Madama Butterfly is alive and will soon resurface.” A second edition soon followed.

Here, Puccini had come into his own, producing some of the most loved and recognized moments of the piece, like the “Humming Chorus” that bridges Acts 2 and 3 and the heart-wrenching trio between Suzuki, Pinkerton and Sharpless in Act 3. This is the lyrical and dramatic masterwork that appears on the Central City Opera House stage today.

Running far deeper than just the lovely melodies for which it’s recognized, Madama Butterfly has stood the test of time by provoking the kind of powerful discourse that fuels introspection and growth.

Despite Puccini’s best efforts to make Madama Butterfly successful, the premiere was a disaster. Not only did

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DIRECTOR: ALISON MORITZ

BY ERIN OSOVETS ALISON MORITZ UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING YOUNG TALENT. After being mesmerized by the opera at age nine in her hometown of St. Louis, Alison knew that the performing arts were where she belonged, but it wasn’t until her 20s that she felt the pull to direct. Since that discovery, she has fully immersed herself in the world of opera: studying the art of direction, teaching the craft, learning from experienced directors and traveling over 40 weeks a year to cities around the country to put her imaginative touch on contemporary and classic pieces, including this year’s main stage production of Madama Butterfly.

“As a young director, you want people to be invested in your development as an artist,” says Alison. “Central City Opera recognizes that I want to contribute, and they’ve continued to offer opportunities for which I’m so grateful.”

In 2017, Alison assisted in the direction of Central City Opera’s main stage production Così fan tutte and directed the one-act performances of Gallantry and Cabildo with trainees from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program, which has developed some of opera’s most exciting new talent. Alison appreciates the correlation between her own career trajectory and that of the trainees.

“To see female directors, composers and conductors getting more opportunities, that excites me. I think that our art is better for having more inclusive voices.”

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“It’s very gratifying to watch young artists progress from a studio level and return to sing in main stage roles,” she says. “There’s training and growth happening in every corner here, whether it’s through internships, the training programs or in my own particular case.”

As Alison continues to expand her innovative repertoire, the 2018-2019 season sees her company debuts at Opera Colorado (La traviata), Lyric Opera of Kansas City (Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Penelope), Ravinia and Experiments in Opera. She returned to Washington National Opera for the world premiere of Taking Up Serpents (composed by Kamala Sankaram, libretto by Jerre Dye) and to New Orleans Opera for a new production of Abduction from the Seraglio.

Becoming a featured guest director at so many renowned companies is no small feat in a world where the number of female directors is sparse.

“To see female directors, composers and conductors getting more opportunities, that excites me. I think that our art is better for having more inclusive voices.”

Alison Moritz is a shining example of how the best and brightest in the business have proven themselves through the artistic license provided at Central City Opera and how they’re paving the way for the next generation.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Director's Note ALISON MORITZ

“Just like us, they struggled, caught against the cusp of modernity and uncertain in the face of social and cultural change.”

IN 1853, JAPAN’S DOORS WERE OPENED TO THE WEST for the first time in over two centuries, and Western audiences were captivated by their first glimpses of Japanese culture. This booming trend of “orientalism” coincided with another major cultural phenomenon — the invention of the photograph.

Within a decade, Western photographers had arrived to document and stage visions of Japan for their growing audiences back home. Italian photographer Felice Beato was one of the most famous of these enterprising artists.

He and his workshop produced hundreds of hand-tinted landscapes and genre scenes, beginning with Nagasaki.

In fact, the photographs themselves represent a blending of Eastern and Western culture and technology. The delicate process that Beato and his assistants used for coloring their photos was directly inspired by the handpainting of Japanese watercolor and woodblock artists.

In many ways, I see Puccini’s beautiful opera Madama Butterfly as the theatrical equivalent of Beato’s staged Japanese photos. Here we have two Italian gentlemen interpreting Eastern culture through the lens of Western art. In many ways, verismo opera and the nascent artform of photography share similar qualities — both forms were promoted as more immediate, more “true to life” than their antecedents.

While we cannot ignore the romanticizing intervention of the Western gaze, there remains something true and essential about today’s subject and her story. People like Butterfly and Pinkerton really existed. Just like us, they struggled, caught against the cusp of modernity and uncertain in the face of social and cultural change.

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executing the first orchestral reduction of Billy Budd in order for it to be produced here in the Central City Opera House.

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COLORADO PREMIERE

BILLY BUDD BENJAMIN BRITTEN

LIBRETTO Eric Crozier & E.M. Forster, based on the novel by Herman Melville CONDUCTOR John Baril DIRECTOR Ken Cazan ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Dan Wallace Miller SCENIC DESIGNERS Takeshi Kata and David Martin Jacques PROJECTION DESIGNER Sean Cawelti COSTUME DESIGNER Jonathan Knipscher ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER Kerry Bechtel LIGHTING DESIGNER David Martin Jacques WIG/MAKEUP DESIGNER Ronell Oliveri ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER Stefano Sarzani MUSICAL PREPARATION John Arida and Michael Baitzer STAGE MANAGER Lisa Marie Lange ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Emily E. Duffin SUPERTITLES Thomas Getty

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BILLY BUDD | CAST CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE

NORMAN

EDWARD FAIRFAX VERE

FIRST MATE

SECOND MATE

MR. FLINT BOSUN DONALD

MAINTOP

THE NOVICE SQUEAK

MR. REDBURN

LIEUTENANT RATCLIFFE

JOHN CLAGGART

HOPKINS

BURDETTE

Daniel Norman RED WHISKERS Spencer Reichman

ARTHUR JONES Thaddeus Ennen BILLY BUDD Federico De Michelis

THE NOVICE'S FRIEND Sean Stanton DANSKER Jonathan Hays A CABIN BOY Joseph Leppek MIDSHIPMEN Jonas Hacker Joseph Gaines POWDER MONKEYS Dennis Jesse

Brian Kontes

Kevin Burdette

Benjamin Werley Garrett Obrycki Joshua Hopkins Matthew Peterson Matthew Burns Ethan Conklin Nate Hutabarat, Elliot Jenkins, Noah Meyerhoff and Oliver Strubbe Cayden Culwell, Miguel Guajardo, Jackson Hasserd, Ian Johnson, Elijah Maize, Kason Nicholas, Conor Sharpe and Blaise Weinig

Special thanks to Michael Egel.

Assisted listening devices generously donated by Myra B. Levy.

Set constructed by You Want What? Productions, Englewood, CO. Various principal costumes built by the Utah Opera Costume Shop, Salt Lake City, UT. Various chorus costumes built by Townsend, Inc. of Indiana. Peacoats and gunner pants built by Lynda Kelleher at Classic Apparel Company, Everett, MA. Pattern making for peacoats and gunner pants by Ann Russo Technical Design Service Inc., Quincy, MA. Various costumes rented from Des Moines Metro Opera, Indianola, IA. Marine and drummer uniforms rented from United-American Costumes, Hollywood, CA. Marine bayonet belts and cartridge boxes rented from History For Hire, Hollywood, CA. The conductor’s podium is endowed in perpetuity by the Eleanore Mullen Weckbaugh Foundation.

CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL SPONSORS Avenir Foundation, Inc. • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation • Central City Opera House Association Endowment Fund Lanny and Sharon Martin • Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District PRESENTING SPONSORS Pamela and Louis Bansbach • Central City Opera Guild • Estate of Walt and Mary-Ruth Duncan • El Pomar Foundation Judy and Newell Grant • Colleen Healey Charitable Fund advised by Robert Wiegand II • The Virginia W. Hill Foundation • OPERA America, Inc. PRODUCTION SPONSORS Margaret and Stan Baker • John W. Kure and Cheryl L. Solich • Mr. Daniel L. Ritchie PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Butler Family Fund • John and Anne Draper • Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fuller • Diana W. and F. Michael Kinsey • Jean and Larry Manion Anne and Tom McGonagle • Heather and Mike Miller • National Endowment for the Arts • Phoebe Smedley • Mary Ann Stabio The Stanley Hotel • Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust • Buzz and George Ann Victor • Carole J. Yaley

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CENTRAL CITY OPERA & BENJAMIN BRITTEN

JOIN US as we check off masterworks

by Benjamin Britten season by season!

“It’s great theater, the kind that reaches out and grabs you.”

Gloriana, First North American Production 2001

THE 2019 FESTIVAL IS AN IMPORTANT LANDMARK along Central City Opera’s journey to produce the entire canon of Benjamin Britten’s operas. “It’s great theater, the kind that reaches out and grabs you,” says General/ Artistic Director Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Since Pearce joined Central City Opera 23 years ago, the works of Britten have been an artistic compass in the company’s repertoire.

In an intimate theatre like the historic 550-seat Opera House, every detail is visible to the last row. “That’s the magic, and also the challenge, of a small house. It HAS to be real,” says Pearce. Central City Opera showcases extraordinary stories such as the works of Benjamin Britten like no other venue.

The Rape of Lucretia 2008

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1974, 1977, 2002

Paul Bunyan 2005

Curlew River 2008 The Turn of the Screw 2012 The Prodigal Son 2015 The Burning Fiery Furnace 2017 Billy Budd, Colorado Premiere 2019

Neglected Masterpiece – Gloriana

the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, and it had never been produced professionally by an American company. Director Ken

staging of this important yet neglected work garnered the attention of the opera world. Wrote Wes Blomster in Boulder’s

of 16th-century England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Mezzosoprano Joyce Castle played the aging monarch. Central City’s

thing. With Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana, the Central City Opera has become one of the great opera companies of the world.”

Cazan did extensive research to recreate pomp and pageantry Camera: “Opera here is no fiery longer a sometime summer gloriana, 2001; a midsummer night ’sthedream , 2002;Dailythe burning furnace , 2017. photos by mark kirykuk and amanda tipton.

Central City’s 2001 production of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, made operatic history. Gloriana had rarely been performed in the fifty years since it was commissioned for Covent Garden in honor of

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SETTING THE STAGE FOR BILLY BUDD

BY MARGARET SIEGRIST

riveting and visceral BASED ON HERMAN MELVILLE’S NOVELLA, Billy Budd is a play in contrasts. Britten’s opera explores the duality of morals and law while pitting the expanse of the sea against the claustrophobia of the small society onboard a 1797 British warship.

With the Napoleonic Wars raging at port and starboard, the H.M.S. Indomitable and its dutiful leader, “a sailor of distinction,” Captain Vere, serve as a symbolic beacon of stability and strength. However, when the young and idealistic Billy Budd is forcibly enlisted, balance within the small maritime society pitches sharply. Billy’s magnetic personality and “beauty” draws nearly the entire crew to

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love him, with one imposing exception — Master at Arms John Claggart.

It is up to interpretation whether Claggart’s hatred for Billy is a personified struggle between evil and good, the tumult of a romantic attraction to Billy that Claggart cannot abide or simply a regimented set-up to Captain Vere’s moral dilemma. Whatever the cause, the Master at Arms makes a point of cruelly targeting Billy Budd. Meanwhile, on the heels of mutinous outbreaks elsewhere in the British Royal Navy, whispers of rebellion trickle amid dark corners of the ship, and Billy’s charisma and agreeable disposition mark him an intriguing asset to the cause.

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...at its core, Billy Budd is a taut chronicle of moral struggle.

The dramatic potency of Britten’s opera weaves riveting theatre with visceral music, forcing audiences to calibrate our own moral compasses.

When tensions crest and Billy is brought to trial over crimes committed in self-defense, the fair and intellectual Captain Vere faces a decision that haunts him to his epilogue.

Despite the vast scale of this opera at sea, at its core, Billy Budd is a taut chronicle of moral struggle. The dramatic potency of Britten’s opera weaves riveting theatre with visceral music, forcing audiences to calibrate our own moral compasses.

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DIRECTOR: KEN CAZAN

BY ERIN OSOVETS

“My goal is to bring humanity to everything I do theatrically..."

KEN CAZAN HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL FORCE in Central City Opera’s project to mount every work by 20th century composer Benjamin Britten. After this summer’s production of Billy Budd, there will be only two works by the prolific British composer that Ken has not yet directed throughout his career. It’s an impressive accomplishment for the Los Angeles-based director who is in his 18th season with Central City Opera and one that he connects to on a visceral level.

“I have an emotional relationship to Britten and have since I started to direct,” says Ken. “There’s something about his music that I find so theatrical and challenging in its complexity, simplicity and honesty. I can’t think of any other composer who destroys me emotionally like Britten.”

Growing up in Ohio, Ken got his start in musical theater as a child and was the first in his family to attend college.

At Syracuse University, he absorbed acting and directing methods and took his craft to New York City, where he coached actors and singers. The thrill of hearing opera for the first time remains as fresh to him today as it did then, even after an award-winning career spanning

“This is a place to ply your craft.

At 8,500 feet, it's idyllic: physically, spiritually and artistically. That's why I keep coming back summer after summer.”

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several continents, over 160 productions, a professorship at University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and countless world premieres.

In 2017, Ken was inducted into the Grove Dictionary of Music — the first time in 25 years that the esteemed musical dictionary had been edited. The dictionary cited Ken Cazan as an expert in the works of Benjamin Britten and praised his skill in working with singer-actors on characters and relationships.

“My goal is to bring humanity to everything I do theatrically and to make it identifiable and accessible. All good theater is cathartic — we reach people and open up something inside of them, to make them think and feel and talk and maybe heal.”

Even with his abundance of accolades and experiences, Ken still considers Central City Opera essential in cultivating his future endeavours.

“This is a place to ply your craft. At 8,500 feet, it’s idyllic: physically, spiritually and artistically. That’s why I keep coming back summer after summer.”

BILLY BUDD

Director's Note

“The ropes play a prominent role in both the physical production and the drama through the surrealistic quality of the projections.”

I HAVE CONCEIVED BILLY BUDD AS A FLASHBACK DREAMSCAPE, told entirely from the perspective of a very old and very frail Captain Vere. Being a memory piece, it is never quite realistic. Billy’s death has clearly eaten away at Captain Vere for years. Even though the captain states in the final moments of the opera that he is “content,” quoting Billy’s words from before he was hanged, we feel Vere’s tremendous guilt swell the closer he moves toward death — a stark comparison with Billy’s true acceptance and calm at the moment of his execution.

upstage. Through research, the design team discovered that ropes and rigging on board a man o’ war were as important as the wood used to build the ships. The ropes play a prominent role in both the physical production and the drama through the surrealistic quality of the projections.

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Being a dreamscape, the set is not an actual man o’ war main deck and quarterdeck. It consists of several large, wood-planked platforms, the boards of which have been bleached by both the sun and by the sandstone that would have been used to clean the teak decking.

The upstage, smaller platform is higher and represents officers’ quarterdeck. Several layers of sails, doubling as projection surfaces, make the upstage platform disappear for select scenes, and a large sail-like surface across the entire upstage area provides another projection surface.

Attached to the platforms are a series of ropes and rigging, some of which can be climbed to the grid area

The costumes are period. Costume Designer Jonathan Knipscher has the advantage of having designed Billy Budd before and comes with a well-researched portfolio. We have been fairly meticulous with detail on the costumes, but we have designed and tweaked them to fit the characters. For instance, John Claggart appears in a longer highwaymantype coat.

At the end of the show, all of the men on stage are looking at Captain Vere as they were when the opera began. The dreamscape and memory give way to Vere’s reality, a man left alone in the morass of his memories.

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DOUBLE BILL

THE BLESSED DAMOZEL CLAUDE DEBUSSY TEXT Dante Gabriel Rossetti MUSIC DIRECTOR/PIANO/ORGAN Peter Walsh DIRECTOR Alessandro Talevi COSTUME DESIGNER Stacie Logue WIG/MAKEUP DESIGNER Ronell Oliveri MUSICAL PREPARATION Peter Walsh STAGE MANAGER Taylor Jene Sullivan ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Savannah Cathers and Max Rosenberg

CAST IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE ENSEMBLE Women of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program A NARRATOR Michelle Monroe THE BLESSED DAMOZEL Véronique Filloux This production features members of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program.

CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL SPONSORS Avenir Foundation, Inc. • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation • Central City Opera House Association Endowment Fund Lanny and Sharon Martin • Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District PRESENTING SPONSORS Pamela and Louis Bansbach • Central City Opera Guild • Estate of Walt and Mary-Ruth Duncan • El Pomar Foundation Judy and Newell Grant • Colleen Healey Charitable Fund advised by Robert Wiegand II The Virginia W. Hill Foundation • OPERA America, Inc. PRODUCTION SPONSORS City of Central • Estate of David R. Ericson • Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Anonymous • J.M. Huber Corporation • Mabel Y. Hughes Charitable Trust Lizabeth A. Lynner and James L. Palenchar • MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation Karen and Andrew Ritz • Dr. Sarah K. Scott and Mr. Kevin Kearney • Estate of Helen Ruth Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Unger • Dave and Mary Wood Fund

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LITANIES TO THE BLACK VIRGIN FRANCIS POULENC TEXT Liturgy MUSIC DIRECTOR/PIANO/ORGAN Peter Walsh DIRECTOR Alessandro Talevi COSTUME DESIGNER Stacie Logue WIG/MAKEUP DESIGNER Ronell Oliveri MUSICAL PREPARATION Peter Walsh STAGE MANAGER Taylor Jene Sullivan ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Savannah Cathers and Max Rosenberg

CAST Women of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program

This production features members of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program.

CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL SPONSORS Avenir Foundation, Inc. • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation • Central City Opera House Association Endowment Fund Lanny and Sharon Martin • Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District PRESENTING SPONSORS Pamela and Louis Bansbach • Central City Opera Guild • Estate of Walt and Mary-Ruth Duncan • El Pomar Foundation Judy and Newell Grant • Colleen Healey Charitable Fund advised by Robert Wiegand II The Virginia W. Hill Foundation • OPERA America, Inc. PRODUCTION SPONSORS City of Central • Estate of David R. Ericson • Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Anonymous • J.M. Huber Corporation • Mabel Y. Hughes Charitable Trust Lizabeth A. Lynner and James L. Palenchar • MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation Karen and Andrew Ritz • Dr. Sarah K. Scott and Mr. Kevin Kearney • Estate of Helen Ruth Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Unger • Dave and Mary Wood Fund

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SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE DOUBLE BILL

BY MARGARET SIEGRIST

The unique pairing examines personal spirituality and endeavours into the depths of grief and loss.

NEITHER THE BLESSED DAMOZEL NOR LITANIES TO THE BLACK VIRGIN are commonly experienced in performance, much less heard together. The unique pairing examines personal spirituality and endeavours into the depths of grief and loss. Together, they present interesting, contrasting interpretations of heaven that audiences must ponder. Is heaven a paradise, festooned with lilies, roses and stars as in the world of Debussy’s The Blessed Damozel or a limbo of confusion and dissonance in line with Poulenc’s Litanies to the Black Virgin?

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Both works demonstrate pivotal moments in Debussy and Poulenc’s lives and composition. In this striking double bill, audiences experience the fresh curiosity of Debussy’s early career posed against grief-provoked evolution of Poulenc’s late style. The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin relish in staggering emotion, rendering moments that seem unbearable a thing of beauty in the scope of human experience for artist and audience, alike.

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DEBUSSY’S INSPIRATION

POULENC’S CONVERSION

The Blessed Damozel provides a snapshot of Debussy as a young composer, exploring wide-ranging inspiration and defining what would become an influential compositional style to the music world.

Emblematic of change, Litanies to the Black Virgin signifies the turning point between the irreverence of Francis Poulenc’s early compositions and the gravitas of his later sacred works.

Though he lacked formal education outside the area of music, Debussy read voraciously throughout his life.

His early compositions are marked by the impact of the Symbolist movement, which aimed to communicate through feeling and suggestion rather than the realism that dominated the previous decade. Debussy befriended and set the work of many Parisian Symbolists; through his effectual relationship with these local literaries, Debussy encountered the source material of The Blessed Damozel.

Searching for solace after the death of his friend and fellow composer, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Poulenc travelled to the Rocamadour Shrine in the south of France on pilgrimage. Though he grew up in a devout Catholic family, Poulenc had distanced himself from the church.

“As I meditated on the fragility of our human frame, I was drawn once more to the life of the spirit,” Poulenc reflected. Inspired by the famous icon of Notre Dame de Rocamadour and the prayers sung in the sanctuary, Poulenc began Litanies to the Black Virgin and returned to the religion of his youth.

One of Pre-Raphaelite founder Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s most famous poems, The Blessed Damozel depicts a woman in heaven yearning for her lover below. The work shows clear connection to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who also came to influence the young Claude Debussy.

He later planned operas based on Poe, including The Fall of the House of Usher. Inspired by the themes of love, loss and mysticism, he began writing a cantata based on Rossetti’s poem. Paving the way for his later orchestral works and opera, The Blessed Damozel is an early example of Debussy’s unique style which sought to evoke a mood and emotional landscape through creative harmony and color.

Seigneur, ayez pitié de nous "Lord, have mercy on us" This first venture into sacred composition initiated a new era for Poulenc as an artist. In contrast with the sharp wit and everyday themes of his earlier music, Poulenc confronted Litanies with a somber hand. Often a tool of his cheeky wit, dissonance was already a common element of Poulenc’s style, but here he employs it with a more serious touch to communicate raw, inconsolable emotion.

The work calls for three-part chorus of either women or children’s voices and organ, an entirely new palate of sound for the composer, and explores Gregorian chant, diverging from the composer’s characteristic melodic flair. Though exploring new techniques and themes for composition, Poulenc maintained an approach all his own.

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DIRECTOR: ALESSANDRO TALEVI

BY ERIN OSOVETS

Alessandro’s future in the arts was evident at a young age as he built toy theaters and excelled at the piano.

BACK FOR HIS FIFTH PRODUCTION AT CENTRAL CITY OPERA, Alessandro Talevi brings his distinct visual style to the double bill of The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin. The Johannesburg native has had an eventful year since directing The Magic Flute for Central City Opera

last summer, keeping audiences from Rome to Tel Aviv and Philadelphia rapt with his creative expressions on the stage.

“With Central City, I love the surreal quality to the town.

You can focus a lot of detail on the acting, which doesn’t necessarily come across in a big theater, and [General/Artistic Director] Pat Pearce has a good sense of knowing where my imagination gets the best results,” says Alessandro.

Alessandro’s future in the arts was evident at a young age as he built toy theaters and excelled at the piano.

His hobbies manifested into a love of stage design as he studied music and art history at the University of the Witwatersrand, but it was at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he discovered his love for opera.

As he accompanied singers on the piano, Alessandro realized that he belonged behind the scenes at the theater, thriving from the inspiration and impact that comes with being a director. That kicked off a fruitful career that has seen the execution of successful opera productions around the globe, including Amadigi di Gaula (2011), The Turn of the Screw (2012), The Marriage of Figaro (2014) and The Magic Flute (2018) at Central City Opera.

The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin provide the director with the freedom to experiment with his artistry in Central City — a place where Alessandro feels empowered to place emphasis on detail, nuance and explore dramatic subtleties.

the magic flute, 2018. directed by alessandro talevi. photo by amanda tipton.

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“This is a festival atmosphere,” says Alessandro. “In a sense, every show that’s done here is a little bit of a miracle.”

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“The essential challenge for a stage director of this pairing of works for female voices is the fact that neither work was originally intended to be staged.”

WHILE BOTH WORKS (particularly the Debussy) conjure up some strong visual imagery in the mind’s eye, they can be done as concert pieces without the need for staging. Neither work has an essential narrative quality that requires visual storytelling.

So why turn them into staged performances, with costume, lighting and props? The two pieces are highly suggestive and evocative in their sentiments and emotions, and when juxtaposed, they spawn some interesting and unsettling ideas.

The Blessed Damozel is essentially a reflection on the nature of bereavement and loss when it happens to a loving couple. What makes it unusual is that it's told from the point of view of the person who has died (the

‘damozel’), who is in heaven and pining for her lover.

The work has an uplifting and airy tone because, for the most part, it tells of the fond reminiscence of their love and her joy at one day being able to see him again when he joins her in heaven. It is only in the final tragic bars when the reality of her current separation hits home, and she breaks down in tears. This is often the painful daily reality of anyone who has experienced the loss of their life-partner, especially when the memories of the shared time together are so sweet. Memories sustain us in times of grief; they are also a painful reminder that those happy moments are gone, at least for the present.

Poulenc’s Litanies to the Black Virgin is a haunting work which was written while the young composer was experiencing a profound emotional trauma following the sudden death of his best friend in a car crash. It marks the first major break with the cheerful, witty and sometimes flippant music of his early period and is an interesting precedent to later serious works such as the Dialogues of the Carmelites, which dwell on notions of mortality and the anguish of dying. It is an evocative reflection on the fragility and brevity of life and youth.

As both these works suggest various important spiritual moments in the life of any human being, it is fitting that they are presented in a church setting. I have therefore drawn on the ‘theater’ of religious ceremony as the aesthetic basis for this production. The iconology of our religious ceremonies is something which transcends cultures and creeds, and which has a communicative immediacy which will be heightened by the presentation in a context where those ceremonies are traditionally performed.

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ENCORE: A MUSICAL REVUE CONDUCTOR John Baril DIRECTOR and CURATOR Curt Olds LIGHTING DESIGNER Szu-Yun Wang MUSICAL PREPARATION Thomas Getty STAGE MANAGER Karen T. Federing ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Taylor Jene Sullivan

encore: a musical revue, 2018. photos by amanda tipton.

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This production features members of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program.

The conductor’s podium is endowed in perpetuity by the Eleanore Mullen Weckbaugh Foundation.

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ENCORE: A MUSICAL REVUE

Director's Note CURT OLDS

I AM DELIGHTED TO JOIN CENTRAL CITY OPERA ONCE AGAIN for Encore: A Musical Revue — a new tradition which brings the magic of “Broadway in concert” to the Central City Opera stage, in celebration of another remarkable season of cutting-edge opera.

This year is a very special one for me at Central City Opera as it marks the 25th Anniversary of my first season with the company. CCO has been part of my life from the very beginning of my career, giving me the benefits of a world-class apprentice program and engaging me in subsequent seasons as a principal artist. Some of my most treasured productions have been with Central City Opera, especially musicals like Show Boat and Oklahoma.

Our friendship now includes this new series of concerts, which I am thrilled to curate and direct. I hope to give you – the opera patron and music lover – a concert highlighting operatic voices singing some of the best music from Broadway in a mix that includes operetta, classic Broadway showtunes and new contemporary standards of musical theatre.

“...to sing and present the glorious music of Broadway in one of the most charming opera houses ever built!”

Last year’s inaugural concert was a huge success, and this year we continue with another big dose of guilty pleasure music from treasured works of musical theater!

We will again be joined by Maestro John Baril and the amazing Central City Opera Festival Orchestra bringing you the thrill of full Broadway orchestrations to the event. I am also very excited to welcome back mezzosoprano Jennifer DeDominici to join me on stage, along with some outstanding artists from the 2019 BonfilsStanton Foundation Artists Training Program, which as I mentioned, helped me begin an operatic career which has happily included the wonderful world of Broadway.

Currently, I am performing in the new World Tour of Phantom of the Opera, but I will be taking a break to come visit you in Colorado for Encore. I look forward to seeing you again at Central City Opera and I am already counting the days until I get back to one of my favorite places on earth — Central City, Colorado — to sing and present the glorious music of Broadway in one of the most charming opera houses ever built!

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COMPANY PROFILES Cody Austin+

Michael Baitzer

John Baril

Kevin Burdette*

Matthew Burns*

Sean Cawelti*

Bass-Baritone: Dansker, Billy Budd Recently: Dulcamara, L’elisir d’amore, Virginia Opera; Sulpice, La fille du régiment, Opera Carolina; Dr. Primus/Sir Simon the Ghost, Usher House/The Canterville Ghost, LA Opera

Projection Designer: Billy Budd Recently: Founder/Artistic Director, Rogue Artists Ensemble; Director/Puppet and Mask Designer, Wood Boy Dog Fish, Bootleg Theater; Video Design, West Side Story, USC School of Theater; Video, Puppet Design and Direction, The Perfect American (North American Premiere), Long Beach Opera

Ken Cazan

Troy Cook

Jennifer DeDominici

Joseph Gaines+

Tenor: Lt. Benjamin F. Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly Central City Opera: Larry/Matt, The Face on the Barroom Floor, 2006; Sam, The Ballad of Baby Doe, 2006 Recently: Alfred, Die Fledermaus, Opera Tampa; Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Pittsburgh Opera and Greensboro Opera; Don José, Carmen, Sarasota Opera

Central City Opera Music Director Conductor: Billy Budd and Encore: A Musical Revue Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Il trovatore and Encore: A Musical Revue, 2018; Così fan tutte, 2017; Tosca, 2016 Recently: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Roméo et Juliette, Virginia Opera; The Turn of the Screw, UMKC-Opera, Kansas City

Director: Billy Budd Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Acis and Galatea and The Face on the Barroom Floor, 2018; The Burning Fiery Furnace, 2017 Recently: Professor of Opera/Resident Stage Director, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music; Director/Co-librettist, Frau Schindler (World Premiere), Gärtnerplatz Theatre, Munich; Director, As One (World Premiere), American Opera Projects and Brooklyn Academy of Music

Mezzo-Soprano: Soloist, Encore: A Musical Revue Central City Opera: (Partial listing) Soloist, Opera Teaser, 2019; Central City Opera Touring Artist/Teaching Artist; Soloist, Encore: A Musical Revue, 2018 Recently: Charity Barnum, Barnum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Soloist, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Denver Philharmonic; Queen Guenevere, Camelot, Intermountain Opera Bozeman

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Director/Administrator, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Central City Opera: Principal Coach, 2012-2019; Music Staff 1999-2004 Recently: Head of Music Staff, Washington National Opera

Bass: John Claggart, Billy Budd Recently: Señor Russell, The Exterminating Angel, The Metropolitan Opera; Pangloss/ Martin, Candide, Liceu Opera Barcelona; Sulpice, La fille du régiment, Santa Fe Opera

Baritone: Sharpless, Madama Butterfly Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Germont, La traviata, 2015; Captain von Trapp, The Sound of Music, 2014; Gaylord Ravenal, Show Boat, 2013 Recently: Marcello, La bohème, Opera Philadelphia; Father Palmer, Silent Night, Austin Opera and Minnesota Opera; Rodrigo, Don Carlo, Washington National Opera

Tenor: Goro, Madama Butterfly and Squeak, Billy Budd Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors, 2015; Basilio, Le nozze di Figaro, 2014; Howard Boucher, Dead Man Walking, 2014 Recently: Monostatos,The Magic Flute, Utah Opera; Pang, Turandot, San Diego Opera; Dan Leno, Elizabeth Cree, Opera Philadelphia

Raquel González*

Jonathan Hays+

Joshua Hopkins

David Martin Jacques

Dennis Jesse*

Takeshi Kata*

Jonathan Knipscher*

Brian Kontes*

Federico De Michelis*

Alison Moritz

Soprano: Cio-Cio San, Madama Butterfly Recently: Mimi, La bohème, Opera Tampa; Violetta, La traviata, Opera on the James; Tatyana, Eugene Onegin, Atlanta Opera

Baritone: Billy Budd, Billy Budd Central City Opera: Argante, Rinaldo, 2009; Junius, The Rape of Lucretia, 2008 Recently: Mercutio, Roméo et Juliette, The Metropolitan Opera; Valentin, Faust, Washington National Opera; Harry Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life, San Francisco Opera

Baritone: Mr. Redburn, Billy Budd Recently: Escamillo, Carmen, Opéra Louisiane; Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr. Miracle/ Dapertutto, The Tales of Hoffmann, Opera Orlando; Ping, Turandot, New Orleans Opera

Costume Designer: Billy Budd Recently: Merlin’s Island and The Emperor of Atlantis, Wolf Trap Opera; Billy Budd, Die Fledermaus and Flight, Des Moines Metro Opera

Baritone: Mr. Flint, Billy Budd Recently: Nourabad, Les pêcheurs des perles, Liceu Opera Barcelona; Colline, La bohème, Houston Grand Opera; Figaro, Le nozze di Figaro, Palm Beach Opera

Baritone: Donald, Billy Budd Central City Opera: Reverend Gruffydd, How Green Was My Valley (World Premiere in collaboration with Colorado Springs Conservatory), 2014; Taddeo, L’italiana in Algeri, 2003; Papageno, Die Zauberflöte (with Colorado Symphony), 2002 Recently: Sir Joseph Porter, H.M.S. Pinafore, Anchorage Opera; Maximilian, Candide, Anchorage Opera and Anchorage Symphony Orchestra; Soloist, An die fernen Geliebten by Jeremy Gill, National Sawdust

Resident Lighting Designer Central City Opera: Resident Lighting Designer 2007-present and 2000-2005 Recently: My Fair Lady, Teatro di San Carlo; Moby Dick, Chicago Opera Theater; The Flying Dutchman, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Co-Scenic Designer: Billy Budd Recently: Angels in America, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Office Hour, Public Theatre; Man From Nebraska, Second Stage

Bass: Lieutenant Ratcliffe, Billy Budd and The Bonze, Madama Butterfly Recently: Hans Foltz, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, The Metropolitan Opera; Timur, Turandot, San Diego Opera; Bartolo, Le nozze di Figaro, Pittsburgh Opera

Director: Madama Butterfly Central City Opera: Director, Gallantry and Cabildo, 2017; Assistant Director, Così fan tutte, 2017; Director, Studio Scenes Programs, 2016-2017 Recently: Director, Taking Up Serpents (World Premiere), Washington National Opera; La bohème, Austin Opera; Candide, Tanglewood Music Festival

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COMPANY PROFILES CONTINUED Daniel Norman*

Tenor: Edward Fairfax Vere, Billy Budd Recently: Monostatos, The Magic Flute, English National Opera; First Jew, Salome, English National Opera; The Guard, To See the Invisible, Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings

Curt Olds+

Director, Curator and Soloist: Encore: A Musical Revue Central City Opera: (Partial Listing) Director/Curator/Soloist, Encore: A Musical Revue,2018; Frank, Show Boat, 2013; Will Parker, Oklahoma! 2012 Recently: Monsieur Andre, The Phantom of the Opera, World Tour; Adapting Director, My Fair Lady, Utah Symphony; Corcoran, H.M.S. Pinafore, Eugene Opera

Ronell Oliveri

Annie Rosen+

Stefano Sarzani*

Alessandro Talevi

Adam Turner

Peter Walsh

Resident Wig/Makeup Designer and Supervisor Central City Opera: Resident Wig/Makeup Designer and Supervisor 2017-present; Wig and Makeup Co-Designer, 2011 Recently: Primetime Emmy-Nominated Makeup Artist; Wig and Makeup Designer for Opera Omaha and Opera Colorado

Associate Conductor/Chorus Master: Madama Butterfly and Billy Budd Recently: Conductor, Mozart at 40 & Elgar Cello Concerto, Symphony NH; Assistant and Cover Conductor, La bohème and Il trovatore, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Conductor, La bohème, Lyric Opera of Chicago

Conductor: Madama Butterfly Central City Opera: Conductor, Carmen, 2017 and Man of La Mancha, 2015; Associate Conductor, 2014, 2011-12 Recently: Conductor, Three Decembers, San Diego Opera; Conductor, Eugene Onegin, Intermountain Opera Bozeman; Artistic Director, Virginia Opera

Benjamin Werley*

Tenor: Red Whiskers, Billy Budd Recently: Narraboth/Second Jew, Salome, Dayton Opera; Lippo Fiorentino, Street Scene, Virginia Opera; Arturo, Lucia di Lammermoor, Florida Grand Opera

Mezzo-Soprano: Suzuki, Madama Butterfly Central City Opera: La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi, 2011; La marchande, Les mamelles de Tirésias, 2011 Recently: Adalgisa, Norma, Utah Opera; Brother, The Scarlet Ibis, Chicago Opera Theater; Laura, Iolanta, Chicago Opera Theater

Director: The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin Central City Opera: (Partial listing) The Magic Flute, 2018; Le nozze di Figaro, 2014; The Turn of the Screw, 2012 Recently: Tosca, Israeli Opera; Robert Devereux, Welsh National Opera; Tosca, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Music Director: The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin Central City Opera: Coach and Rehearsal Pianist, Il trovatore and Acis and Galatea, 2018 Recently: Coach and Rehearsal Pianist, The Magic Flute, Utah Opera; L’elisir d’amore, Opera Omaha; Hansel and Gretel, LA Opera

DEVELOPING ARTIST Jonas Hacker+

Tenor: Novice, Billy Budd Central City Opera: Ensemble, The Barber of Seville, Our Town and Show Boat, 2013 Recently: Edmondo, Manon Lescaut, Dallas Opera; Tanzmeister, Ariadne auf Naxos, Cleveland Orchestra; Count Almaviva, The Barber of Seville, Annapolis Opera

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Mary Louise Burke and Emily Crile Associate Directors Billy Budd, A Cabin Boy: Ethan Conklin; Midshipmen: Nate Hutabarat, Elliot Jenkins, Noah Meyerhoff and Oliver Strubbe; Powder Monkeys: Cayden Culwell, Miguel Guajardo, Jackson Hasserd, Ian Johnson, Elijah Maize, Kason Nicholas, Conor Sharpe and Blaise Weinig The Colorado Children’s Chorale has been performing with Central City Opera since the 1974 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Chorale children have appeared in more than 35 productions including: The Magic Flute, Carmen, La bohème, Sound of Music, Dead Man Walking and many others.

APPRENTICE ARTISTS

BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION ARTISTS TRAINING PROGRAM

Melanie Ashkar ∆

Caitlin Crabill

Thaddeus Ennen

Véronique Filloux•

Emily Harmon

Brent Hetherington•

Joseph Leppek

Michelle Monroe

Mezzo-Soprano Arlington, VA Recently: Clotilde, Norma, Utah Opera; Second Lady, The Magic Flute, Utah Opera; The Fox, The Little Prince, Utah Opera

Baritone Buffalo Center, IA Recently: Mr. Peachum, The Threepenny Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera; Paul Jobs (cover), The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Santa Fe Opera; Count Paris, Roméo et Juliette, Santa Fe Opera

Mezzo-Soprano Boston, MA Recently: Auntie, The Scarlet Ibis, Boston Opera Collaborative; Alto Soloist, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Worcester Symphony Orchestra; Amastre, Xerxes, Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Tenor Novi, MI Recently: Resident Artist, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, 2018-19; Tony, West Side Story, The Glimmerglass Festival; Giacomo de Wisants, The Siege of Calais, The Glimmerglass Festival

Soprano Kettering, OH Recently: Turandot (cover), Turandot, Sarasota Opera; Abigaille (cover), Nabucco, Sarasota Opera; Pepa, Tiefland, Sarasota Opera

Soprano Redwood City, CA Recently: Tigrane, Radamisto, Opera Lafayette; Brigitta (cover), Iolanta, Chicago Opera Theater; Papagena/Old Woman, The Magic Flute, Central City Opera

Bass-Baritone Gladewater, TX Recently: Hermann/Schlémil, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Nashville Opera; Big Bob, The Little Sweep, Sarasota Opera; The Bonze, Madama Butterfly, Pensacola Opera

Mezzo-Soprano Cedar Falls, IA Recently: Witch, Hansel and Gretel, University of Northern Iowa Opera; Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Nebraska Opera Project; Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Blooming Voce Summer Opera Workshop

∆ Indicates a Past Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Apprentice Artist • Indicates a Past Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Studio Artist

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APPRENTICE ARTISTS CONTINUED Dylan Morrongiello

Tenor Tulsa, OK Recently: Damon, Acis and Galatea, Central City Opera; Le petit vieillard, L’enfant et les sortilèges, UMKC-Opera; Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Seagle Music Colony

Amanda Olea

Matthew Peterson•

Christina Pezzarossi

Spencer Reichman

Soprano San Diego, CA Recently: Flora, The Turn of the Screw, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Pamina, Die Zauberflöte, Manhattan Opera Studio; Adina, L’elisir d’amore, San Diego State University

Baritone Austin, TX Recently: Sharpless, Madama Butterfly, Shreveport Opera; Tom/John, The Face on the Barroom Floor, Shreveport Opera; Riff, West Side Story, Shreveport Opera

David Rivera Bozón

Jennifer Russo

Sean Stanton

Baritone Chicago, IL Recently: Sam, Trouble in Tahiti, Opera on the James; Ike, Sweet Betsy from Pike, Opera on the James; David, A Hand of Bridge, Opera on the James

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Baritone Brush, CO Recently: Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea, Central City Opera; Commissionario, La traviata, Opera Colorado; A-rab, West Side Story, Boulder Philharmonic

Mezzo-Soprano Miles City, MT Recently: Paula, Florencia en el Amazonas, Pensacola Opera; Stewardess (cover), Flight, Des Moines Metro Opera; Flora, La traviata, Opera San Jose

Tenor Bogotá, Colombia Recently: Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, New England Conservatory; Floriano, La Leggenda del Ponte, Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts; Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, New England Conservatory

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Chris Mosz•

Tenor Indialantic, FL Recently: Mr. Ford, Frida, Florida Grand Opera; Don Basilio/Don Curzio, Le nozze di Figaro, Florida Grand Opera; Schoolmaster/ Mosquito, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Glimmerglass Festival

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Soprano Glen Head, NY Recently: Soloist, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra; Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, Lighthouse Opera Company; Rosalinda, Die Fledermaus, Queens College Opera Theater

Ryan Stoll

Bass-Baritone Springfield, MO Recently: King Rene (cover), Iolanta, Chicago Opera Theater; Colline, La bohème, Boston Opera Collaborative; Dottore (cover), La traviata, Sarasota Opera

STUDIO ARTISTS

BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION ARTISTS TRAINING PROGRAM

Gabrielle Barkidjija

Leah Brzyski

Benjamin DaCosta-Kaufman•

Dylan Davis

Mezzo-Soprano River Forest, IL Recently: Béatrice, Béatrice et Bénédict, Northwestern University; Mrs. Grose, The Turn of the Screw, Northwestern University; Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Northwestern University

Tenor Richmond, VA Recently: Bénédict, Béatrice et Bénédict, Northwestern University; Tom Rakewell, The Rake’s Progress, Northwestern University; Corydon, Acis and Galatea, Central City Opera

Soprano Rochester Hills, MI Recently: Rossignol, Le Rossignol, Yale Opera; Dew Fairy, Hänsel und Gretel, Yale Opera; The Queen of the Night, Die Zauberflöte, Yale Opera

Tenor Marion, OH Recently: Basilio, Le nozze di Figaro, Ohio State University; Peter Quint, The Turn of the Screw, Chicago Summer Opera; Governor/Vanderdendur, Candide, Ohio State University

Madeline Ehlinger

Steele Fitzwater

Corey Gaudreau

Zach M. Goldman

Baritone Bristol, CT Recently: Prince Yamadori, Madama Butterfly, Shreveport Opera; Alvaro, Florencia en el Amazonas, Pensacola Opera; Grégorio, Roméo et Juliette, Pensacola Opera

Tenor Great Neck, NY Recently: Tom Rakewell, The Rake’s Progress, Mannes Opera; Roderick Usher, The Fall of the House of Usher, Mannes Opera; Rodolfo, La bohème, Mannes Opera

Blake Jennings

Jesse Mashburn

Soprano Spring Green, WI Recently: Tatyana, Eugene Onegin, Yale Opera; Antonia, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Yale Opera; Poppea, L’incoronazione di Poppea, DePaul Opera

Bass-Baritone Longview, TX Recently: Pastor/Badger, The Cunning Little Vixen, Boston University; Crespel (cover)/ Luther, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Opera North; Don Alfonso, Così fan tutte, Boston Conservatory

Bass-Baritone Dawson, WV Recently: Achilla, Giulio Cesare, Indiana University Opera; Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, A Little Night Music, Miami University Opera; Bartolo, Le nozze di Figaro, Janiec Opera Company

Mezzo-Soprano Hartselle, AL Recently: Bradamante, Alcina, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival; Baba, The Medium, Oberlin Chamber Opera; Nicklausse, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Miami Summer Music Festival

∆ Indicates a Past Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Apprentice Artist • Indicates a Past Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Studio Artist

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STUDIO ARTISTS CONTINUED Joseph Mazzara

George Milosh•

Erik Nordstrom

Garrett Obrycki

Baritone Alexandria, VA Recently: Harry Easter/George Jones (cover), Street Scene, Virginia Opera; Masetto (cover), Don Giovanni, Virginia Opera

Baritone Saint Paul, MN Recently: Celebrant, Mass, Lawrence University; Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, Oberlin in Italy; Baritone, Hydrogen Jukebox, Lawrence University

Christine Oh

Soprano Los Angeles, CA Recently: Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro, New England Conservatory; Pamina, Die Zauberflöte, New England Conservatory; La bergère, L’enfant et les sortilèges, New England Conservatory

James Resch

Bass-Baritone Katy, TX Recently: Marquis de la Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Loyola Opera Theatre; Patsy McCall, Roscoe, Seagle Music Colony; Speaker, The Magic Flute, Meadows Opera Theatre

Andrew Simpson•

Bass-Baritone Dallas, TX Recently: Zuniga, Carmen, Annapolis Opera; Colline, La bohème, Fairfax Symphony; Antonio, Le nozze di Figaro, Palm Beach Opera

Tenor Aliquippa, PA Recently: Tamino, The Magic Flute, West Virginia University; Acis, Acis and Galatea, Central City Opera; Nantucket Sailor, Moby Dick, Pittsburgh Opera

Baritone Ham Lake, MN Recently: Sprecher, Die Zauberflöte, Sarasota Opera; Hamlet, Hamlet, Opera Ithaca; Atticus Finch’s Trainer, The Finch Opera, Opera Saratoga

Virginia Reed

Mezzo-Soprano Albany, NY Recently: Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Tamerlano, Tamerlano, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Paquette, Candide, Brevard Music Center

Aaren Rivard

Tenor Portland, ME Recently: Don Basilio/Don Curzio, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Colorado; Gastone, La traviata, Opera Colorado; Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore, Wichita State University

Christopher Stanfill

Baritone Festus, MO Recently: Solomon, Solomon and Balkis, Missouri Baptist University; Pirate King, Pirates of Penzance, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas, University of Missouri-St. Louis

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2018 ARTIST AWARDS Kira Dills-DeSurra

Award in Memory of John Vivian Richards

Lauren McQuistin

Award in Memory of Wilfred T. Henwood

Tori Schuchmann

Adelaide Bishop Award

Gillian Hollis

Lew Cady Memorial Award

Ann Fogler

Studio Artist Award

Betsy Diaz

Apprentice Artist Award

George Milosh

Dorsey Family Award

Zachary Johnson

John and Ginny Starkey Award

Chris Mosz

Iris Henwood Richards Memorial Award

Tasha Koontz

McGlone Award (Central City Opera Guild)

Graycen Gardner

Award in Honor of Scott Finlay and Barbara Zarlengo

Samuel Weiser

John Moriarty Award

VĂŠronique Filloux

Central City Opera Young Artist Award

Kirby Brayman

Outstanding Intern Award in Memory of Greg Miller

Hannah Humphrey

Outstanding Intern Award in Memory of Greg Miller

Autumn Mitchell

Outstanding Intern Award in Memory of Greg Miller

Julia Woodward

Outstanding Intern Award in Memory of Greg Miller

2019 awards will be announced at the closing performance of the Festival.

acis and galetea and the face on the barroom floor, 2018. photos by amanda tipton.

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2019 | FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

John Baril MUSIC DIRECTOR Brian Cook ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Angela Dombrowski ASSISTANT ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER AND MUSIC LIBRARIAN photo by amanda tipton.

VIOLIN Alexis Meschter, Concertmaster^ Takanori Sugishita, Assistant Concertmaster Sharon Park, Principal Second Chris Jusell, Assistant Principal Second Laura Tait Chang Natasha Colkett Angela Dombrowski Nina Fronjian^ Emily Glover James W. Hart Filip Lazovski Susie Peek Ingrid Peoria Veronica Sawarynski VIOLA Kostadin Dyulgerski, Principal Leah Kovach, Assistant Principal^ Brian Cook N. Samantha Headlee William Neri^ Lora Stevens CELLO Jonathan Lewis, Principal Kimberly Patterson, Assistant Principal Robert Erhard^ Alex Romanenko BASS John Arnesen, Principal Andy Holmes

FLUTE AND PICCOLO Masha Popova, Principal Kayla Burggraf^ Susan Kerbs Townsend^

TROMBONE AND BASS TROMBONE Bron Wright, Principal Andy Wolfe Jeffrey J. Craig

OBOE AND ENGLISH HORN Jeffrey Stephenson, Principal Sarah Bierhaus Max Soto

TUBA Adam Snider, Principal^

CLARINET, BASS CLARINET AND SAXOPHONE Anna Brumbaugh, Principal Michelle Joseph Orman Jerome Fleg BASSOON AND CONTRABASSOON Jill Dispenza, Principal Francisco Delgado Eric Heidbreder^ HORN Carolyn Kunicki, Principal Josh East^ Devon Park Chandler Spoon^ TRUMPET Leslie Scarpino, Principal Jonathan Kaplan^ John Freeman

HARP Janet Harriman, Principal TIMPANI Mike Tetreault, Principal PERCUSSION Carl Dixon, Principal Peter Cooper Nena Lorenz Wright Mark Foster^ Chris Martin^ Paul Mullikin^ Julie Strom^ Elizabeth Van Wirt^ BILLY BUDD AUXILIARY CHORUS Jeremy Reger, Musical Preparation Carter DeSouza, Bass John Healy, Baritone Luke North, Baritone Trey Wallen, Baritone Steven Walz, Tenor Adan Webster, Bass

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CENTRAL CITY OPERA | ADMINISTRATION

GENERAL/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PELHAM G. PEARCE, JR. was selected

in 1996 as Managing Director and named General/Artistic Director of Central City Opera in 1998. During his 23-year tenure, Mr. Pearce has set forth the company’s current artistic mission of balancing traditional and progressive works. Central City Opera’s national/ international reputation has been elevated with American premieres such as Gloriana in 2001 and world premieres including the new Chinese opera, Poet Li Bai, in 2007, garnering press coverage all over the world. Nationally, he has served as Chairman of the Grants Review Panel for the NEA, as a juror for the Rosa Ponselle International Voice Competition and Regional Met Auditions and as a Board Member for OPERA America. In May of 2013, Mr. Pearce received the BonfilsStanton Foundation Award for the Arts and Humanities.

Pelham G. Pearce, Jr., General/Artistic Director John Baril, Music Director John Moriarty, Artistic Director Emeritus Michael Baitzer, Director/Administrator, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Scott A. Dessens, CPA, CGMA, Chief Financial Officer Sara Blackwelder, Controller Ana Carrera, Accounting Clerk Wanda Larson, Office Administrator/Gift Shop Buyer BOX OFFICE Deb Mountain, Sales Operations Manager Rachelle Cole, Box Office Associate DEVELOPMENT Scott Finlay, Director of Development Katherine Nicholson, Associate Director of Development Clare K. Mail, Assistant Director of Development Lane M. Melott, Development Associate Jenaveve Linabary, Development Operations Manager Jeremy Schwartz, Events Coordinator Shira Zimmerman, Grants Officer Katherine Wilson, Grants Writer

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HISTORIC PROPERTIES Eric Chinn, Director of Historic Properties Sam Carrington, Historic Property Maintenance MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Gail Bransteitter, Director of Marketing Erin Osovets, Associate Director of Marketing Paul Halverson, Associate Director of Audience Development Margaret Siegrist, Marketing Content Manager Blake Communications, Public Relations Melissa Rick, Art Direction and Graphic Design EDUCATION Emily Murdock, Associate Director of Education, Podcast Host and Producer Dianela Acosta, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano Steven Aguiló-Arbues*, Touring Artist, Piano Roger Ames*, Resident Teaching Artist and Composer Jason Baldwin*, Touring Artist, Tenor Sarah Barber*, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano James Baumgardner*, Touring Artist, Tenor Jovahnna Borboa, Touring Artist, Soprano Adam Buer, Touring Artist, Guitar Judeth Shay Comstock*, Touring Artist, Soprano Christie Conover, Touring Artist, Soprano Jennifer DeDominici*, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano Josh DeVane, Touring Artist, Baritone Michelle Diggs Thompson, Touring Artist, Soprano Adam Ewing*, Touring Artist, Baritone Phoenix Gayles, Touring Artist, Soprano Daniela Guzmán-Égüez, Touring Artist, Soprano Erin Hackel, Touring Artist, Soprano Michael Hoffman, Touring Artist, Tenor Kenny Martinez, Production Assistant Christiana McMullen, Touring Artist, Soprano Emily Murdock*, Touring Artist, Soprano Margaret Ozaki Graves, Touring Artist, Soprano Sara Parkinson, Touring Artist, Piano Matthew Peterson, Touring Artist, Baritone Amanda Raddatz*, Touring Artist, Soprano Marcia Ragonetti, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano Chad Reagan, Touring Artist, Baritone Rebecca Robinson, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano Deborah Schmit-Lobis*, Touring Artist, Piano, Composer/Arranger Margaret Siegrist, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano Jeremy Reger, Touring Artist, Piano Leslie Remmert Soich, Touring Artist, Mezzo-Soprano Erin Joy Swank, Stage Manager

Steven Taylor, Touring Artist, Baritone Bradley Thompson*, Touring Artist, Baritone Malcolm Ulbrick, Touring Artist, Baritone Travis Yamamoto, Touring Artist, Piano * Designates Teaching Artist

MUSIC AND COACHING STAFF John Baril, Music Director and Principal Conductor, Billy Budd Adam Turner, Conductor, Madama Butterfly Michael Baitzer, Director/Administrator, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program and Principal Coach/Diction Coach Kirby Brayman, Assistant to the Music Director Brian Cook, Orchestra Personnel Manager Angela Dombrowski, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager and Music Librarian Stefano Sarzani, Associate Conductor/Chorus Master Thomas Getty, Assistant Conductor Peter Walsh, Assistant Conductor John Arida, Assistant Conductor Erick L. Wolfe, Stage Combat Instructor/Resident Fight Choreographer Melinda Sullivan, Movement Coach/Resident Choreographer Sarah Tallman, Substitute Movement Coach PRODUCTION STAFF Karen T. Federing, Director of Production Kerry M. Cripe, Technical Director Rachel L. Ginzberg, Stage Manager, Madama Butterfly Lisa Marie Lange, Stage Manager, Billy Budd Emily E. Duffin, Assistant Stage Manager, Madama Butterfly and Billy Budd Gregory Boyle, Assistant Director, Madama Butterfly Dan Wallace Miller, Assistant Director, Billy Budd Eric Nathan Brady, Production Scheduler Kurt Tiede, Properties Master Chelsea Kuehnel, Assistant Properties Master Stacie Logue, Costume Shop Manager Ruth A. Fink, Wardrobe Head/Assistant Costume Shop Manager Ali Filipovich, Stitcher/Dresser Hannah J. Haverkamp, Stitcher/Dresser Candace Leyland, 1st Wig and Makeup Assistant Linnea Jean Soderberg, 2nd Wig and Makeup Assistant Erick L. Wolfe, Stage Combat Instructor/Resident Fight Choreographer Melinda Sullivan, Movement Coach/Resident Choreographer Szu-Yun Wang, 1st Assistant Lighting Designer Jesse Alarcon, 2nd Assistant Lighting Designer DIRECTORS/DESIGNERS/CHOREOGRAPHERS Alison Moritz, Director, Madama Butterfly Ken Cazan, Director, Billy Budd Alessandro Talevi, Director, The Blessed Damozel and Litanies to the Black Virgin

Dany Lyne, Original Set and Costume Designer, Madama Butterfly Dana Tzvetkov, Costume Coordinator, Madama Butterfly Jessi Rose, Costume Coordinator Assistant, Madama Butterfly Margaret Ozaki Graves, Cultural Consultant, Madama Butterfly Takeshi Kata, Co-Set Designer, Billy Budd David Martin Jacques, Resident Lighting Designer and Co-Set Designer, Billy Budd Sean Cawelti, Projection Designer, Billy Budd Jonathan Knipscher, Costume Designer, Billy Budd Kerry Bechtel, Associate Costume Designer, Billy Budd James R. Palmisano, Costume Design Assistant, Billy Budd Ronell Oliveri, Resident Wig and Makeup Designer/Supervisor Thomas Getty, Supertitles, Madama Butterfly and Billy Budd FESTIVAL SERVICES Hannah Crown, House/Festival Services Manager FESTIVAL INTERNS Emily Brink, Events Assistant, Massachusetts Aaliyah Burton, Wig/Makeup Assistant, Missouri Savannah Cathers, Stage Management Production Assistant, Madama Butterfly and The Blessed Damozel & Litanies to the Black Virgin, Georgia Lila Dunn, Gift Shop Assistant, New Jersey Anne Dwyer, Costume/Wardrobe Assistant, Wisconsin Alyssa Embry, Props Assistant, Ohio Remington Foster, Office/Music Library Assistant, Texas Mollie McClanahan, Costume/Wardrobe Assistant, Kansas Alexandra Pio, Props Assistant, Wisconsin Max Rosenberg, Stage Management Production Assistant, Billy Budd and The Blessed Damozel & Litanies to the Black Virgin, Virginia Marisa M. Sorce, Wig/Makeup Assistant, California Taylor Jene Sullivan, Stage Management Production Assistant, The Blessed Damozel & Litanies to the Black Virgin, Kansas Chelsea D. Taylor, House/Company Management Assistant, Texas IATSE/STAGE CREW HEADS Mariah Becerra, Head Props Dave Youngs, Assistant Props Victoria Boswell, Assistant Props Michael Boswell, Head Carpenter Cindy Maupin, Assistant Carpenter Miles Stasica, Master Electrician and Union Steward Stephen D. Mazzeno, Board Operator Jeff Riedel, Head Flyman Greg Killpack, Assistant Flyman C.J. Polich, Head Sound

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THE YELLOW ROSE SOCIETY

top: central city opera’s the magic flute, 1989. bottom: central city opera’s the magic flute, 2018; photo by amanda tipton.

The Yellow Rose Society acknowledges those who are leaving a legacy for Central City Opera through a planned gift. These donors, with their foresight and generosity, are ensuring the long-term artistic and financial stability of the Company.

YELLOW ROSE SOCIETY MEMBERS Charles and Joan Albi Mr. and Mrs. Patrick K. Bains Nancy P. Brittain The Morss Dehncke Family Cheryl and David Dutton Ms. Arline Echandia Mrs. Charles L. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Verne J. Goodwin Deborah Hayes and James L. Martin Cathey A. Herren Jane A. Hultin Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Huseby Kathryn S. Keller Johanna Elizabeth Kelly Phyllis Gottesfeld Knight Lizabeth A. Lynner and James L. Palenchar Dr. and Mrs. William Maclay Hilton G. and Elizabeth A. Martin Lanny and Sharon Martin Mrs. Buddie Mees Dr. Ron and Alys Moubry Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ness, Jr. Nancy S. Parker Bette and David Poppers Pam and Korvin Powell Mrs. Rosemary Priester Mr. Daniel L. Ritchie Karen and Andrew Ritz Steven and Barbara Sande Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Schaefer Terrence and Elaine Scholes Robert and Lucy Showalter Phoebe Smedley Alice and Tom Stephens Susan Stiff Jenene and James Stookesberry Ms. Barbara N. Walton Mr. Jerry F. Wathen

IN MEMORIAM Remembering members of the Yellow Rose Society who passed away this year: Walt Duncan David R. Ericson Gina Guy Mrs. Ann C. Levy Mr. John D. Priester Remembering members of the Yellow Rose Society who thoughtfully included Central City Opera in their estate plans: Anonymous Ms. Catherine H. Anderson Mr. Vincent L. Bates Edward E. and Jean R. Bolle Erna D. Butler Mary-Ruth Y. Duncan Mr. Charles L. Ferguson Celeste and John Fleming E. Atwill and Callae Gilman Carol K. Gossard Gloria Gossard Barbara J. Hartley Murlie J. Kogan Mr. Roy G. Krug Mrs. Charles C. Reineman Helen Ruth Shapiro Dr. Ann M. Shaw Mrs. Joan. A. Siegel John R. and Virginia L. Starkey Laura Hannah Stein-Leavitt David G. Wood Dr. Raymond P. Wood II Ms. Ruth M. Zancanella FOR MORE INFORMATION on planned giving or to inform Central City Opera of your estate plans, please contact Assistant Director of Development Clare Mail at 303.331.7014 or cmail@centralcityopera.org.

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DONOR SPOTLIGHT

Thank you

Central City Opera is proud to shine a spotlight on the following supporters who have guaranteed another season of celebrated productions. These donors have provided extraordinary financial support over the past year, and we are truly humbled by their appreciation of this Company.

To me, Central City Opera is an icon in our community. It has been a joy and an honor for me to be a part of this organization's future. – Nancy P. Brittain

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Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Accetta Butler Family Fund PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Pamela and Louis Bansbach Bansbach Foundation PRESENTING SPONSORS

Maureen K. Barker and Johanna Elizabeth Kelly The Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee Performance Fund PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Nancy P. Brittain PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Jim and Sharon Butler Butler Family Fund PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Michelle and Mark Dorman PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

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Mrs. Charles L. Ferguson PERFORMANCE SPONSOR

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fuller PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Richard and Rebecca Goozh PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Judy and Newell Grant PRESENTING SPONSORS

Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Huseby PRESENTING SPONSORS

John W. Kure and Cheryl L. Solich PRODUCTION SPONSORS

Jean and Larry Manion PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Lanny and Sharon Martin CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL SPONSORS

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Anne and Tom McGonagle PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Heather and Mike Miller PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Nancy S. Parker PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Mr. Daniel L. Ritchie PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Karen and Andrew Ritz PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schneider Trask Family Foundation PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Dr. Sarah K. Scott and Mr. Kevin Kearney PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

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Margaret and Stan Baker PRODUCTION SPONSORS Ms. Anne J. Fleming PERFORMANCE SPONSOR Diana W. and F. Michael Kinsey PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Lizabeth A. Lynner and James L. Palenchar PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

FOR MORE INFORMATION on major giving, please contact Director of Development Scott Finlay at 303.292.6500 or sfinlay@centralcityopera.org.

Mary Ann Stabio PERFORMANCE SPONSOR Mr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Trask III Trask Family Foundation PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Carole J. Yaley PERFORMANCE SPONSOR

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT

None of this happens without you!

Outstanding performances like the one you are about to enjoy depend on your generosity.

The Central City Opera board, staff and the entire Company thank you for your continued support.

ENDOWMENT FUND

The following funds have been established to preserve the work of Central City Opera for future generations. These noteworthy gifts have an enduring impact, and the Company is truly honored to be the recipient of such incredible investments.

Established Funds

The Chuck and Joan Albi Fund for Central City Opera• The Margaret and Stanley Baker Fund for Central City Opera• The Pamela and Louis Bansbach Fund for the Presentation of Musical Theatre• The Edward E. and Jean R. Bolle Memorial Fund for Central City Opera• The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Fund The Nancy P. Brittain Fund for the Presentation of Established Works• The Central City Opera Working Capital Endowment Fund• The Michelle and Mark Dorman Fund for Central City Opera• The John and Anne Draper Fund for Central City Opera• The Cheryl and David Dutton Fund for Central City Opera• The Barbara and Charlie Ferguson Endowed Fund• The Jeannie and John Fuller Fund for Studio Artists• The Genovese, Vanderhoof & Associates Fund for Central City Opera• The Gilman Family Fund for Apprentice Artists The Verne J. and Pat B. Goodwin Fund for Central City Opera• The Judy and Newell Grant Fund for Central City Opera• The Colleen Healey Memorial Fund• The William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Education Programs The Jane A. Hultin Fund for Festival Support• The Michael and Betsy Huseby Fund for Central City Opera• The Nina Odescalchi Kelly Family Matinee Performance Fund The John W. Kure and Cheryl L. Solich Fund for Central City Opera• The Gregg Kvistad and Amy Oaks Fund for Central City Opera• The Anne and Tom McGonagle Endowed Concertmaster Fund• The John Moriarty Fund for Apprentice Artists The Nancy S. Parker Fund for Central City Opera• The Alfred and Ursula Powell Fund for Central City Opera• The Karen and Andrew Ritz Fund for Education Programs• The Sally Scott and Kevin Kearney Fund for Central City Opera• The John R. and Virginia L. Starkey Fund for Apprentice Artists The Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Fund for Audience Development• The Trask Family Foundation Fund for Historic Property Maintenance The Eleanore Mullen Weckbaugh Foundation Conductor’s Fund The Carole J. Yaley Fund for Principal Flute•

Endowed Contributions The following donors made gifts to Central City Opera for permanent investment between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019.

Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation• Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Danos• Kathleen and John Ness• Mr. and Mrs. Leo Rostermundt• Pam and Sonny Wiegand• Mr. and Mrs. Gene A. Young• • Voice Your Dreams Campaign contribution

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ANNUAL FUND

The following donors made gifts to support the activities of Central City Opera between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019.

While space limits this list to donors of $100 or more, every gift is important and truly appreciated. If your name is listed incorrectly, or omitted, you have our sincere apologies.

Please contact the Central City Opera office at 303.292.6500 to ensure correction.

Corporate, Foundation, Association and Government Donors Central City Opera Festival Sponsor ($100,000+) Avenir Foundation, Inc.* Bonfils-Stanton Foundation* Central City Opera House Association Endowment Fund* J. Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District* Presenting Sponsor ($50,000 - $99,999) Bansbach Foundation* Central City Opera Guild El Pomar Foundation* Colleen Healey Charitable Fund advised by Robert Wiegand II The Virginia W. Hill Foundation* OPERA America, Inc. Production Sponsor ($25,000 - $49,999) Always Best Care Senior Services City of Central* Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation* Performance Sponsor ($10,000 - $24,999) Butler Family Fund* Collage Giving Fund Fuller Real Estate* J.M. Huber Corporation Mabel Y. Hughes Charitable Trust* R.C. Kemper Charitable Trust Lloyd J. King and Eleanor R. King Foundation Jeanne Land Foundation LARRK Foundation MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation National Endowment for the Arts* Priester Foundation* The Stanley Hotel Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust Trask Family Foundation Dave and Mary Wood Fund

Director’s Circle ($5,000 - $9,999) A. E. H. Royalty Co.* Kathy and Brad Coors Foundation Culinary Creative Group Denver Lyric Opera Guild* First Western Trust Fuller Family Fund* Gelatt-Gephart Foundation, Inc. Genovese, Vanderhoof & Associates City of Glendale William Randolph Hearst Foundation* John Madden Company Henry R. Schwier Charitable Fund advised by Robert Wiegand II Scott Family Charitable Fund Eleanore Mullen Weckbaugh Foundation* Conductor’s Circle ($2,500 - $4,999) Morss Dehncke Fund Erzinger Family Fund The Gilman Family Foundation* Rollie R. Kelley Family Foundation Jay’s Valet Little Man Ice Cream Rogue Productions Trilogy Financial Services, Inc. US Bank Watt Family Foundation of Pikes Peak Community Foundation Dean Yannias Charitable Fund Artist’s Circle ($1,000 - $2,499) AssuredPartners Colorado, LLC* Boa Construction Ralph L. and Florence R. Burgess Trust City of Central Business Improvement District Community First Foundation Ralph F. and Barbara A. Cox Fund City and County of Denver Haynes Family Foundation* Heritage West Realty LLC Innovest Portfolio Solutions, LLC The David and Katherine Lawrence Foundation Mammel Family Fund Greg Miller Memorial Fund The Monaghan Foundation* Opera Volunteers International The Parker Foundation Ross Family Charitable Trust Schramm Foundation Shamos Family Foundation Tom and Joan Tyree Memorial Fund JR and MJ Wilson Foundation Benefactor ($500 - $999) Autrey Foundation* Trish and Tully Bragg Family Fund Flowe Foundation Jack Hogan Charitable Foundation The Maven Hotel at Dairy Block

Shaller Family Fund Xcel Energy Foundation Patron ($250 - $499) Cholon Restaurant Concepts Colorado Hope Foundation Denver Private Wealth Management Richard and Marguerite Franklin Charitable Fund Halvorson-Freese 21st Century Fund Lone Tree Farm Fund* Associate ($100 - $249) Christopher and Margot Brauchli Fund Brewer-Kemena Fund MARS Associates Sigma Alpha Iota Denver Alumnae Chapter* TurnKey Solutions Corp.

Wednesday Music Party Matching Gift Companies Caterpillar Foundation The Colorado Health Foundation* GE Foundation The Williams Company Xcel Energy Foundation

Individual Donors Central City Opera Festival Sponsor ($100,000+) Lanny and Sharon Martin*◊ Presenting Sponsor ($50,000 - $99,999) Pamela and Louis Bansbach*◊ Estate of Walt and Mary-Ruth Duncan+ Judy and Newell Grant *◊ Production Sponsor ($25,000 - $49,999) Margaret and Stan Baker* Nancy P. Brittain* Estate of David R. Ericson+ Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Huseby*◊ John W. Kure and Cheryl L. Solich* Erin Nichols Max Nichols Nancy S. Parker*◊ Mr. Daniel L. Ritchie* Performance Sponsor ($10,000 - $24,999) Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Accetta* Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Bader, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. John Barker, Jr.* Jim and Sharon Butler Michelle and Mark Dorman John and Anne Draper Mrs. Charles L. Ferguson*◊ Ms. Anne J. Fleming Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fuller*

Richard and Rebecca Goozh Mr. Michael A. Halle Johanna Elizabeth Kelly Diana W. and F. Michael Kinsey* Lizabeth A. Lynner and James L. Palenchar* Jean and Larry Manion* Anne and Tom McGonagle*◊ Heather and Mike Miller Mr.+ and Mrs. John D. Priester Karen and Andrew Ritz*◊ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schneider Dr. Sarah K. Scott and Mr. Kevin Kearney◊ Estate of Helen Ruth Shapiro Phoebe Smedley* Mary Ann Stabio Mr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Trask III Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Unger* Buzz and George Ann Victor*◊ Pam and Sonny Wiegand* Carole J. Yaley Director’s Circle ($5,000 - $9,999) Anonymous (3) Charles and Joan Albi* Mr. Edwin G. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William D. Armstrong*◊ John Baril and Brian Cook* Jim and Kristin Bender◊ Nancy Benson* Heidi Burose Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bradford Coors Tyson Dines III Cheryl and David Dutton* Robert A. Ellis and Jane+ Bernstein* Dr. and Mrs. Donald C. Ferlic Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Robert P. Fullerton and Beverlee B. Henry*◊ Mr. and Mrs. Brent Gephart Mrs. James P. Gordon* Robert S. Graham* Deborah Hayes and James L. Martin* Jennifer Heglin* Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hutcheson, Jr. Mrs. Shirley Kaaz Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Kenning Robert Montgomery* Mr. and Mrs. Kevin O'Hara Juan Padro Mr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Powell◊ Richard and Sally Russo*◊ Robert and Lucy Showalter* James and Kathy Switzer^◊ Mr. and Mrs. Brian Weldon^ Conductor’s Circle ($2,500 - $4,999) Anonymous (2) Joseph J. Adler and Shelby D. Green-Adler^ Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Billings C. Deen Buttorff Ms. Karen Christiansen◊ John and Melinda Couzens* The Morss Dehncke Family*◊

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Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dinsdale Ronald Engels and Zane Laubhan* Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Erzinger* Mr. Stuart Gilman and Ms. Cathie Walker Mr. and Mrs. John Grier◊ Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Hall Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hilger* Mr. and Mrs. George G. Hutchison III*◊ Ms. Barbara Kelley Mr. Taylor Kirkpatrick Gregg Kvistad and Amy Oaks* Hilton G. and Elizabeth A. Martin* Mr. and Mrs. David Mathis Mr. and Mrs. Dirk McDermott* Sharon L. Menard Rod and Bets Miller Jon and Lynne Montague-Clouse◊ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moraskie Deb and Carl Morrow* Ms. Lin Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Nichols* Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Parker* Pelham G. Pearce, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Phelps, Jr.*◊ Mr. Alexander and Mrs. Cynthia Read*◊ Melissa A. Rick Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Ross Mr. Paul Ruotolo Mr. and Mrs. Ron Sachs Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sanderson* Mr. and Mrs. George Secor*◊ Mr. and Mrs. David Tryba◊ Mr. Roy Varela Betty and Tom Watt Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Wiedenmayer, Jr. Eva and Marvin Womack* Mr. and Mrs. Keith Woods Dr. Dean Yannias Artist’s Circle ($1,000 - $2,499) Anonymous (2) Mr. Roopesh Aggarwal and Ms. Lauren Lovejoy Mr. Edward F. Altman and Dr. Dina Brudenell Altman Hartman Axley* Earl D. and Julia A. Banks*◊ Mr. and Mrs. Francis Barron◊ Jack and Karen Berryhill* Ms. Virginia Brown Sandi and Bill Bruns Leslie Cady* Marty and John Chamberlin Mr. and Mrs. Jon B. Clarke* Dr. and Mrs. Charles Cole Jeanne Collopy and Christopher Koenigs Barbara and Ralph Cox Mr. Thomas Cox Ms. Lauren Crist-Fulk Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Crossman◊ Chris and Lisa Curwen Mr. and Mrs. David C. DeLine Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Dinegar*◊ Ms. Barbara Dorsey Max and Joyce Douglas* Mr. Dan B. Fead

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Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Fowler Robert K. and Virginia E. Fuller*◊ Greg and Cathy Groene*^◊ Mr. Ted Hamstra Jane Hascall Rox Ann and Fred Haynes* Chip Horne and Jan Kennaugh Julie Hughes* Mark and Barbara Kiryluk* Ms. Barbara L. Knight Ken and Barbara Laff* Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. LaMair Danni L. Langdon and Carl Jacobson Ms. Pauline R. Langsley Mrs. David F. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. David F. Lawrence, Jr. Bruce and Eileen Leland Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Logan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Lord John+ and Merry Low William R. and Leigh F. Maclay^ Mrs. Susan Mammel Suzanne Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Manning Mauldin^ Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mayer Ms. Jan P. Mayer Michael B. and Veryl G. McBride^ Mr. and Mrs. James Edgar McDonald, Jr.◊ Mr. and Mrs. Michael McDonald Trish Millice*◊ Mollie Mitchell and John Wilson Mr. and Mrs. James Mulvihill James Neely* Harold and Sarah Nelson^ Ronald Y. Otsuka Dan and Susan Paulien* Rich and Kim Plumridge Frederick Poppe and Jana Edwards Mr. John Potter Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pulley T. R. Reid Helen Scott Santilli Mr. and Mrs. Brian Schaub Joanne and Harvey Sender Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Shamos The Starkey Family Alice and Tom Stephens◊ Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan Ms. Tolly Tate The Totel Family Mr. and Mrs. Al Troppmann Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Tyree, Jr.◊ Pamela T. Vance Rev. Dr. S. Patrice Von Stroh* Ed and Patty Wahtera* Mr. Timothy Walker Dorothy Watts and Mike Jenkins Duain Wolfe Joe and Donna Worsham* Mr. Morton Zeppelin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Zirin* Benefactor ($500 - $999) Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William D. Atkinson◊ Kathleen Baker and Peter Shand

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Bauder Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bennett Libby Bortz Mr. and Mrs. James Tully Bragg Ms. Joyce Castle Mr. and Mrs. Collis P. Chandler III Mr. and Mrs. Allan Gray Clark Polly W. Cox Richard and Doris Cross Nancy R. Crow and Mark Skrotzki*^ Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Danos* Mrs. Mary Ann G. Davis Stephen Dilts* Michael and Sara DiManna* Ms. Marian Dines and Ms. Joanne Christensen Mrs. Nancy W. Downing Jack Dysart and Carole Milligan Mr. and Mrs. Reid Elkus Mr. Paul Finkel Larry and Joanne Fisher David and Debra Flitter^ Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. John Hauser Thomas E. Healy and Erin S. Colcannon Ms. Nora Heitmann Phil and Norma Heinschel* Ronald Henrikson Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Hidalgo* Ms. Annette Hogan-Tracy Mr. Robert Homiak and Ms. Susan Schneider Jane A. Hultin* Malin F. Jones and Jan Crewes-Jones* The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Kapelke Wendy and Bob Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kellogg Cynthia R. Kendrick Cynthia Kruse^ Elizabeth B. Labrot* Mr. Chris Lane Carolyn L. Longmire*◊ Mr. T. Harkins Lord Jeri Loser Ms. Anne Luedders Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Y. Marchand* Bob Meade Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Meckel Carrie M. Mitchell^ Mr. and Mrs. Tim Miller William R. Moninger and Bonnie J. Phipps Sue and Walter Nagel Kimberly Victor Neckers◊ Jane and Skip Netzorg Carl Patterson Mr. Kurt M. Peterson and Ms. Rose Williams Bette and David Poppers*^ Emily Pulley Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Pulliam Mr. and Mrs. Robert Quillin* Mr. and Mrs. Matt Rawley Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ritter Richard B. Robinson and Nina Saks Robinson*◊ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roper Ms. Rebecca Roser and Mr. Ron Stewart Sheldon M. Sager R. A. Seeliger* Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Shaller

Lorraine and Craig Shuler* Nancy J. Siegel* Mr. and Mrs. William T. Snidow Mr. and Mrs. Lars O. Soderberg, Jr.* Rita Sommers* Mr. and Mrs. J. William Sorensen Dr. Carol Stamm Jenene and James Stookesberry*^ Mr. Stephen M. Strachan Mr. and Mrs. James A. Swanson* Mr. and Mrs. Jim Taylor Mr. and Mrs. John I. Taylor Mr. Lloyd O. Timblin, Jr.* Frank+ and Karen Van De Water*◊ Peter W. Van Etten Mr. and Mrs. Charles Von Thun Russ and Margaret Wehner Norman and Dolores Williams^ Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Writz, Jr. Ms. Carolyn Yamane Dr. and Mrs. Ray Yost* Mr. and Mrs. Gene A. Young* Patron ($250 - $499) Anonymous (5) Nancy C. Abbott Raydean Acevedo Robert C. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Edward James Anderson◊ Susanne R. Anselmi Mr. Nasit Ari and Ms. Libby Rittenberg Carolyn and Ron Baer Peggy A. Battalora, M.D. Cynthia Beard Mrs. Joan Berg Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bolt Ms. Suzanne Brauer Ms. Barbara Brenton Janet Bruchmann Ron and Gordon Butz* Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Cain Sue M. Cannon* Mr. Christopher T. Clark Mr. Connor G. Clark Ms. Carol Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Mark Depuy Joy Dillon Marian and Peter Downs Mr. and Mrs. H. Benjamin Duke, III Roger and Carol Dutton Kim Edmiston Mr. and Mrs. Eric Eggar Missy and John Eliot*◊ Ms. Josy Ellis Mr. and Mrs. David Evans Mo Ewing Ms. Christine W. Farrel Ms. Jayne Ford Mr. and Mrs. Bret A. Fox Richard M. and Marguerite W. Franklin Dick and Sigrid Freese Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Fuessel John and Diane Gallagher Richard Stieg and Lucille Gallagher Mr. Terrence Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Gary K. Gantner

Mr. and Mrs. Karl Garrett Tim and Patricia Givens Mrs. Lillian M. Glahn* John J. Greer Schuyler and Sarah Grey Chuck and Pat Griffith Dr. Steven Gulevich Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hamilton Dr. Linda J. Hargrave* Lynn Harrington Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Carolyn L. Harrison Catherine Hartwell Richard L. Hay* Mr. John Heckenlively Robert and Nancy Hemming* Virginia Hersch Sandy and Rosemary Hertz Mr. Karl Hiesterman Gail and James D. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hopkins Bruce and Heidi Hoyt* Paul Hultin Mrs. Judith T. Hunt B.J. and Kristel Hybl Ms. Allison E. Ingalls Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Jones Theresa and Bob Keatinge Robert and Mary Kelman Dr. and Mrs. Melvyn H. Klein Phyllis Gottesfeld Knight Ted and Suzanne Knutzen Wolfgang and Annemarie Lampe Wanda M. Larson Dr. Marilyn Leff Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Leitch* Igor and Jessica Levental Nancy and Jack Lockwood Mr. and Mrs. William Macgowan Katie MacWilliams* Ms. Clare K. Mail and Mr. Michael D. Rardon William Malone◊ Ron and Nancy Marshall Bill and Roberta Martin Susan Martin and Chet Hampson Catherine B. Maxwell* Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kim McClean*◊ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. McCoy, Jr. Dr. Vicki McFarlane Michael E. McGoldrick Mr. Jerome and Dr. Stacy McHugh Lane Micheal Melott Dianne Miller Doug and Laura Moran Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nicholson Ms. Elisa Noeske Mr. and Mrs. Kent Obee* Mr. and Mrs. John Orr Ms. Svetlana Petrova◊ Fay Plummer Geoff and Scarlett Ponton de Dutton Ms. Priscilla L. Porter Ann and Ralph Poucher Nancy and Gene Richards* Ms. Glenda Richter

Mary Ann Ross Mr. and Mrs. Leo Rostermundt* Luana Rubin Prof. Tom Russell Mr. Charles E. Samson Mary Scarpino Ella Schleicher Ruth E. Schoening* Anton and Clare Schulzki Mr. and Mrs. David C. Shelton Terry and Bonnie Shetler Mrs. Christine L. Shore Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Shultz* Rick and Annie Siegrist Grant and Tina Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Sisk, Jr. Catherine and Jacob Skokan Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Smith Darin Snow Mr. Mark St. John Nancy and HJ Stalf Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Stanton Marcia D. Strickland* Laura Stuntz Frank and Sylvia Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sveen Lynn Swanson Ms. Jocelyn Tager Linda Tarpeh-Doe Ms. Christine M. Thompson Joyce Thurmer* Bill and Deborah Tryon John Uppendahl and Travis Railey Ms. Julie C. Van Camp Mr. Robert R. Van Wetter and Ms. Elizabeth C. Brew Richard A. Vickery, Jr. Teresa Vogler Mr. and Mrs. Todd P. Walker Ms. Anne Weiher Cia A. Wenzel John West Nancy and Jan Westman◊ Ms. Marilyn L. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Bryan L. Wilky Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Woodward Jeffrey Zax and Judy Graham Ms. Sheryl Zigmond Mary Marsh Zulack* Associate ($100 - $249)

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Mr. and Mrs. Mark Barczuk Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barnes Jennifer N. Bater* Karen and Mix Beauvais Robert and Mildred Beebe Eunice M. Beeman Mr. Edwin Bell Mariette Bell Mr. Stephen Berman and Ms. Monica Von Thun Calderón Mr. Daniel Bettinger◊ John and Colleen Binder Sheila Bisenius Janet Bishop Linda Bjelland* Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Gordon E. Bloom Ms. Harriet Bobo+ Dave and Jeanne Bohlin Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bowers* Brewster and Helen Boyd William E. Bradford, Jr. and Chin Keong Tan Ms. Gail Bransteitter Christopher and Margot Brauchli Mr. Michael E. Brewer and Dr. Ben Kemena Mr. and Mrs. James E. Briggs Darrell Brown and Suzanne McNitt Ms. Jayne Brown Mr. Jeffrey A. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Steven Bruns Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Budy Mr. Alan Burke Ms. Patricia A. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Calkins Carol Canon Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Caplis◊ Elizabeth Carver Ms. Teresa D. Case Joseph and Delphine Casey Barrie and Emile Chi Mr. Howard S. Christie Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cielo Rachel E. Clark Sue Clinton Jerry and Gloria Clouse Ethel K. Clow Lew and Enid Cocke Andrea and Ken Cohen Catherine Cole Ms. Sheryl L. Colgan Mr. Terry Collings Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Collins Mr. David A. Connell* Alicia and Greg Corliss Mrs. Phyllis J. Cotton* Mrs. Diane Cousins Mr. and Mrs. Steve Cramer Dr. and Mrs. William W. Dahlberg Ronald L. Deal* Ms. Alison M. M. Dehncke and Mr. Brian Oatway◊ Mr. and Mrs. John DellaSalle◊ Mr. Wilson Dennehy Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Diamond Mr. Charles Dinarello and Mr. Edward Kinney Mr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Domich

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Mrs. Shirley F. Dotson John W. and Helga D. Doucette Ron Dreasher Mr. and Mrs. Craig Eckerle Ms. Mary Edrington Ms. Heather Ehret-Faircloth◊ Mr. and Mrs. Troy Eid Jen Schwem and John Ekeberg Susan Enarson Vivian Sheldon Epstein Ms. Amy Estes◊ Joseph and Joanne Fanganello Mr. Guy Fasson Ms. Maddie Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Fey Mr. Mark Filerman and Ms. Robin Beery Mrs. Mary Lou H. Flater Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy J. Flug Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Jack F. Fox Dr. Frederick J. Fraikor Allan and Margot Frank◊ Meg Frantz Mr. and Mrs. James Freeman Keith French* The Fuselier Family Dr. and Mrs. Henry L. Galan Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Gallagher Dr. Arthur and Anita Garfein Dr. and Mrs. Cody Garner Caleb and Sydney B. Gates* Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gatz Lloyd and Mary Gelman Michael and Sara Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. James Gillula K. Sue Giovanini* Mr. and Mrs. Barry A. Gleichenhaus Dr. Ray Gottesfeld Mr. Claude A. Guldner Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Guyton Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Haas Mr. Paul Halverson Richard R. and Carolyn C. Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hanson Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Hantman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harada Richard W. Healy Mr. and Mrs. Josh Heidbrink◊ Cathey A. Herren* Ms. Ann Heyler William and Susan Hiatt*◊ Jack Hidahl Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Hilt* Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hilton Mrs. Sarah C. Hite Jim and Cheryl Hogan Andy Holmes and Sarah Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Horsman◊ Ms. Rhonda Horwitz-Romano Mr. Tom Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hyde Ms. Barbara J. Inama Kendor Jones and Sharon Harris Ms. Christy Jordan and Mr. Christopher B. Little Barbara and Peter Judd

Mr. Neil Kardos Jim and Charla Kates* Thomas Dufficy Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Kemp Dr. Mary B. Kenny-Moynihan and Dr. Michael J. Moynihan Mr. John Kinsey and Mrs. Joyce K. Paloma◊ Mr. and Mrs. Greg Kintzele Bonnie Kipple* Patricia and Philip Klass Mr. and Mrs. James Klein Ms. Kay Knifer and Mr. Ray D. Robertson Hal and Marianne Knott The Koehler Family Ms. Gabriele Korndorfer Mrs. Anne M. Kotch Chris and Mary Kuser Mrs. Wendy E. Labbett◊ Dr. and Mrs. Mark Laitos Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Lathrop Edward and Mary Laves Mr. George M. Lawrence and Ms. Judith Auer Mr. and Mrs. Warren Lawrence* Mr. and Mrs. Jack Le Cuyer Wesley E. and Catherine H. Le Masurier Ms. Lisa Lee Mr. Nicholas Lee Mark and Nancy Leonard Mark and Lois Levinson Judy and Dan Lichtin Rosalind G. Lidstone* Beth and Dan Lincoln Mr. Thomas H. Logan Mr. Curtis M.D. Lundberg Frances A. MacAnally* Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. MacKenzie◊ Henry Mahlman Ms. Victoria Makings Brooke and Charles Maloy Martin Maltempo and Vivien Wu Ms. Margaret Masquelier Mrs. Marian Matheson George Mathews Ms. Jeanine Matney Ms. Diana Matthews Ms. Cynthia Mauran and Mr. Javier Alvarez Deb McBride Mr. and Mrs. James McDonald Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McGonagle Mr. and Mrs. Terry McIntosh Mr. William W. McIntyre and Mrs. Laura Martin Russell R. Mellon and Lauretta C. Moell* Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Melvin Mr. and Mrs. Sean Mercado◊ Christopher H. Merrell* Mr. Richard Miller Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mordhorst Mr. Howard Moretsky Charlene Morton Lawrence Moskow Rosemarie and William Murane Emily Murdock and Steven Aguiló-Arbues Kathleen and John Ness*◊ Matt and Lara Nigro Mr. and Mrs. Gaillard R. Nolan

Ms. Janice R. Norelius Ms. Margaret G. Oakes Roger and Stephanie Oram Erin Osovets Dirk and Janet Pasterkamp Dr. and Mrs. David S. Pearlman Mrs. Roxane Pecchio Ms. Barbra Pehrson* Dr. Michael L. Peppard Bonnie C. Perkins Rhona and David Pessel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Peterson◊ Mr. Dennis Peterson Mr. James Petrock Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Petruzzi Ms. Jan Pettegrew* Ms. Christine E. Pfaff and Mr. Lawrence H. White Mrs. Margaret A. Phannenstiel* Ms. Lynne Pickett Lori Pidick and Mark Niles* Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Pons Kathryn L. Pride Mr. and Mrs. John P. Raeder, Jr. The Raynes Family Elisabeth H. Rebman Ms. Denice Reich Michael L. Ritchie Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper Robbins Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Roberts Ann R. Roemer Mr. and Mrs. Doug Rogers Ms. Laurel Rogers Mary and Tom Rogers Kathryn and Tim Ryan Karen and Stanley Saliman Ms. Raquel Schaps◊ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Schilling Ms. Laura Schlossman Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Schluter

Charles Schunior and Nancy Kilkenny Bob and Lori Schuyler Betty Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Schwartz Aurel B. Searls Karl and Jocelyn Seller Mr. Adam Sexton Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Shaw◊ Randall and Carol Shinn Ms. Helen Shreves◊ Lois L. Sidebottom Mrs. Marlene Siegel◊ Andrea Simmons Mr. and Mrs. James Sizer Dr. and Mrs. Charles Smith Bob Spencer and Sondra Bland Ms. Alyce Sporer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Stahl James B. Steed Mrs. Willa Mae Stein Susan Stiff* Libby Stokes Julie Stone and Ron Cummings Ms. Catherine L. Strange Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Strickler Ms. Randi Stroh Ms. Mary Stromberg Mr. and Mrs. Dale S. Sweat, Jr.* Mr. Vincent Szafranko Dr. and Mrs. John W. Tabash Donald and Robin Tallman Mr. and Mrs. Martin N. Tarabocchia Ms. Jean Theobald Ms. Colleen W. Thumm◊ Mr. Robert Trembly and Ms. Martha Coffin Evans Barbara Trick Terry and JoAnn Vogt Bernd and Marta Wachter Roberta and Leonard Waldbaum◊

Betty Wall and Rolland Fischer Mrs. John James Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Walton Wilson W. Wampler John and Susan Ward Lucy Warner Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Warren Mr. Claude M. Weil and Ms. Carolie J. Coates Hedy Weinberg Mr. Dylan Wells Leigh West and Phil Rosenlund Mr. and Mrs. Troy A. Westergren Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wham Sidney J. White Lyn W. Wickelgren Mr. and Mrs. Rodney D. Wicklund Beth and Karl Williamson* Mrs. Susan S. Williamson Sandy and Jerry Wischmeyer* Mr. and Mrs. Jon Woods Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Workman Don and Sandy Yale Ms. Barbara E. Zarlengo Lisa and Tom Zetah George and Arla Zimmerman*◊

* Loyal donors who have made gifts to Central City Opera for ten consecutive years or more + Friends who have passed away in the last year ^ Elevation Club Members

◊ Diva/Divo Guild Members

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Join the Guild AND JOIN US IN SUPPORTING CENTRAL CITY OPERA

The Central City Opera Guild membership offers a variety of ways to be involved: • Audience Development • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program Auditions • Education Programs • Historic Preservation • L’Esprit de Noël See Community Support for a list of Central City Opera Guild Divas/Divos.

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2019 EXECUTIVE BOARD

Karen Ritz, President Suzie Erzinger and Margaret Baker, Vice Presidents of Membership Kristin Bender, Vice President of Education Cathy Groene, Vice President of Historic Properties Jenaveve Linabary, Treasurer Diane Sweat, Secretary Kristin Bender, Past-President Lane M. Melott, Central City Opera Staff Liaison

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TRIBUTES | IN HONOR Central City Opera acknowledges with gratitude the following gifts made in honor of the persons below.

Gifts listed were received between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019.

In honor of Caroline Rose Morris Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Mark Depuy Bill and Deborah Tryon In honor of Carolyn and Ron Baer Ms. Eileen Koob In honor of Pamela and Louis Bansbach Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Wolfe In honor of John Baril Anonymous In honor of Maureen K. Barker Mr. Michael E. Brewer and Dr. Ben Kemena In honor of Phebe Berkowitz-Tanners Wanda M. Larson In honor of Claire Elizabeth Boland Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Diamond Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Lord Mrs. Susan S. Williamson In honor of Paige Boland Jack Hogan Charitable Foundation In honor of Nancy P. Brittain Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Strickler

In honor of Avery Delaney Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Hamilton

In honor of Lisa Curwen Mr. and Mrs. Steve Cramer

In honor of Sarah Ann Hibbeln Mr. and Mrs. Doug Rogers

In honor of Madeline Taylor Darré Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Darré Mr. and Mrs. David Evans Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Wiedenmayer, Jr.

In honor of Jack Hogan Jack Hogan Charitable Foundation

In honor of Everdina Wilhelmina de Koning Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Fries The Fuselier Family In honor of Therese Choquette DeLine Mr. and Mrs. David C. DeLine In honor of Michael and Sara DiManna Mark and Nancy Leonard In honor of Brooke B. Domich The Morss Dehncke Family In honor of Kenneth Roy Dotson Mrs. Shirley F. Dotson

In honor of Grace Armour Buyers Mr. and Mrs. Todd P. Walker

In honor of Lucille Marian Egan Missy and John Eliot

In honor of Caroline Elizabeth Caplis Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Caplis Ms. Alyce Sporer

In honor of Barbara Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. William D. Atkinson

In honor of Elizabeth Chandler Mrs. Ronald Sevier In honor of Christine Elizabeth Cole Dr. and Mrs. Charles Cole In honor of Anne Craft LARRK Foundation In honor of The Crossman Family Mr. and Mrs. Bryan L. Wilky

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In honor of Scott Finlay C. Deen Buttorff Alicia and Greg Corliss Ms. Jane Roach In honor of Judy and Newell Grant Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan In honor of Kathryn Sweat Grassby Mr. and Mrs. Dale S. Sweat, Jr.

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In honor of Elsie Bell Hauser The Fuselier Family Mr. and Mrs. John Hauser

In honor of Lauren Horsman The Morss Dehncke Family In honor of Jane A. Hultin Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Paul Hultin Cia A. Wenzel In honor of Madeleine Taylor Hunt Ms. Maddie Ferguson Ms. Jayne Ford Mrs. Judith T. Hunt In honor of Michael and Betsy Huseby Phyllis Gottesfeld Knight In honor of Rhys Elizabeth Jansen Ms. Shelley Falk In honor of Susan G. Janssen MARS Associates In honor of Kaytlyn Jornayvaz LARRK Foundation In honor of Taylor Penn Lester Lanny and Sharon Martin

In honor of Suzanne MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Clark Mr. Mark Corbett and Mrs. Annie R. Cordova Mr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Domich Mr. and Mrs. Bret A. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Kemp In honor of Clare K. Mail Jane A. Hultin In honor of Larissa Elizabeth Martin Mr. and Mrs. Gary Curtis Mr. Thomas H. Logan In honor of Alexandra Perry Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Walton In honor of Hannah Margot McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. McDaniel In honor of Julia Jane McDonald Mr. and Mrs. George G. Hutchison III Mr. T. Harkins Lord Mr. and Mrs. James McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Michael McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Schluter In honor of Anne McGonagle Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan In honor of Máire Eileen McHugh Mr. Jerome and Dr. Stacy McHugh In honor of Albert and Rosie Melcher T. R. Reid In honor of Abby Mercado The Morss Dehncke Family

In honor of Freddie Lincoln Beth and Dan Lincoln

In honor of Jon and Lynne Montague-Clouse Jerry and Gloria Clouse

In honor of Alice Anne Lloyd Alice and Tom Stephens

In honor of John Moriarty Betsy Schwarm and Rick Glesner

In honor of Margot Pease MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Cain Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Hantman Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper Robbins

In honor of Deb Morrow Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Jane A. Hultin Wanda M. Larson Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Rita Sommers

In honor of Margaret Grace Mulvihill Mr. and Mrs. James Mulvihill Mr. and Mrs. Lars O. Soderberg, Jr. In honor of Emma Ruth Murphy Mr. and Mrs. James Tully Bragg Mr. Dylan Wells In honor of Hadley Jane Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Gaillard R. Nolan In honor of Nancy S. Parker Mrs. Nancy W. Downing Bev and John Howell In honor of Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Calkins

In honor of Kristen Sweat Ricotta Mr. and Mrs. Dale S. Sweat, Jr.

In honor of Phoebe Smedley Robert A. Ellis

Karen H. Van De Water Ms. Marcela Von Thun

In honor of Daniel L. Ritchie Jen Schwem and John Ekeberg

In honor of Dean Smith Ms. Helen Brown and Mr. Joel S. Rosentstein

In honor of Payton Currigan Waters Mr. Mark Filerman and Ms. Robin Beery Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Melvin

In honor of Aubyn Roning Roemer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Roberts Ann R. Roemer In honor of Denise Sanderson Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan In honor of Ashraf Sewailam Raydean Acevedo Luana Rubin

In honor of Rita Sommers Jane A. Hultin

In honor of Barbara Zarlengo C. Deen Buttorff

In honor of Tolly Tate Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Ross In honor of Mathilde Grace Von Thun Mr. Stephen Berman and Ms. Monica Von Thun Calderรณn

IN MEMORY OF KIM PEORIA for 26 years of dedicated work with Central City Opera 2nd Bassoon Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Music Director Music Librarian

TRIBUTES | IN MEMORY Central City Opera acknowledges with gratitude the following gifts made in memory of the persons below.

Gifts listed were received between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019.

In memory of Lucine Amara Edwin Austin

In memory of Mark Brechbill Pelham G. Pearce, Jr.

In memory of Kay Brady Amberg Chris and Mary Kuser In memory of Jane Bernstein Pelham G. Pearce, Jr.

In memory of Valerie G. Brown Wanda M. Larson Lanny and Sharon Martin Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Lori Pidick and Mark Niles

In memory of Madaline Bloss Julie Stone and Ron Cummings

In memory of Ivan Burleigh Karen and Andrew Ritz

In memory of Edward E. Bolle William E. Bradford, Jr. and Chin Keong Tan

In memory of Erna Butler Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Accetta Jim and Sharon Butler Butler Family Fund

In memory of Lewis Cady Leslie Cady Susan Martin and Chet Hampson In memory of Stephen Cole Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. In memory of Mrs. John H. Caton, Jr. Cathy and Greg Groene In memory of Tom Cousins Mrs. Diane Cousins

In memory of James Leslie Davis Mr. Edwin Bell In memory of Daisy Ossio de Levy Mr. Stephen Berman and Ms. Monica Von Thun Calderรณn In memory of Dave Dirks Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wise In memory of Lloyd Dreasher Ron Dreasher (Continued on next page)

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TRIBUTES | IN MEMORY In memory of Lynn Dubal Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan

In memory of Christopher Mark Kiryluk Mark and Barbara Kiryluk

In memory of Samuel Egnot Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan

In memory of Gladys and Robert Lansing Liana Lansing

In memory of Charlie Ferguson Ms. Jeanne M. Adkins Mrs. Charles Ferguson

In memory of Ann Levy John and Merry Low Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Rita Sommers

In memory of Celeste and John Fleming Ms. Anne J. Fleming Joanne and Harvey Sender In memory of Janene Pulley Fowler Emily Pulley In memory of Jane Fox Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. In memory of Dean Gillespie and Walter Land Jeanne Land Foundation In memory of Marjorie Jean Haberman Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. In memory of Carolyn Henrickson Ronald Henrikson In memory of Wilfred T. Henwood Anonymous

In memory of Tom Jensen Laura, Dale and Kyle Reed In memory of Rose Kemp Bill and Roberta Martin

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In memory of John W. Low Lanny and Sharon Martin Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. In memory of Alice S. Maercklein Ms. Mary Edrington Ms. Debby Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Gene A. Young In memory of Susan Marsh Mary Marsh Zulack In memory of Peter, Yetta, Fred, and George McFarlane Betty and Tom Watt Watt Family Foundation of Pikes Peak Community Foundation In memory of Greg Miller Greg Miller Memorial Fund Rod and Bets Miller Dorothy Watts and Mike Jenkins In memory of Melva T. Pearce Margaret and Stan Baker Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fuller Robert P. Fullerton and Beverlee B. Henry Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hilger

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Lanny and Sharon Martin Nancy S. Parker Rita Sommers Buzz and George Ann Victor Lisa and Tom Zetah In memory of Kim Peoria John Baril and Brian Cook Andy Holmes and Sarah Richardson Jane A. Hultin Cedra Kuehn Cyndi Mancinelli Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. The Raynes Family Rita Sommers The Totel Family In memory of Edwin M. Poorman Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Lisa and Tom Zetah In memory of Gilbert and Nellie Postlewait Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Meehan In memory of Mary Catherine Ramsour Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan In memory of Iris Henwood Richards Anonymous In memory of John Vivian Richards Anonymous In memory of David Schleicher Ella Schleicher In memory of Victor P. Stabio Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. Lisa and Tom Zetah

In memory of Gordon E. Von Stroh Rev. Dr. S. Patrice Von Stroh In memory of Marjorie Stuntz Laura Stuntz In memory of Wendell Swanson Lynn Swanson In memory of Paul Tanners Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Pelham G. Pearce, Jr. In memory of Spence Wedum Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan In memory of Edda Wenke Anonymous In memory of Shirley B. White Patricia and Philip Klass In memory of Dr. and Mrs. Roland J. Zarlengo Ms. Barbara E. Zarlengo

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THANK YOU TO THE 2018 SPONSORS gold sponsors City of Glendale Kristin and Jim Bender Barbara H. Ferguson silver sponsors Dan Fead | Liv Sotheby’s Pamela Todd | Megastar Financial bronze sponsors AssuredPartners Colorado Boa Construction Margaret and Stan Baker Suzie and Marty Erzinger Karen and Andrew Ritz Denise and Jim Sanderson media sponsors Colorado Expression Magazine The Denver Post The Villager Newspaper Bonnie Brae Living

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The 2019 Theatre of Dreams Gala soared to new heights with a glamorous evening of music, cocktails and a delectable four-course gourmet dinner in the modern atmosphere of The Hangar at Stanley Marketplace. Star of stage and screen, Tony Award-nominee Megan Hilty, along with Matt Cusson on piano, impressed the crowd with a set of show stopping hits from the seminal roles of her career. The Gala raised critical funds for the Central City Opera Festival productions, year-round programs and ongoing operations.

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The organizing committee included a group of new and long-time Central City Opera supporters.

PLATINUM SPONSORS El Pomar Foundation Lanny and Sharon Martin GOLD SPONSOR Kathy and Brad Coors Foundation First Western Trust SILVER SPONSORS Margaret and Stan Baker Scott Finlay and Tom Duggan Jay’s Valet Rogue Productions US Bank GALA CHAIR Nora Heitmann GALA COMMITTEE Kathleen Baker Margaret Baker Tamara Barron Lisa Curwen Riisa Dikeou Christina Dinegar Jami Dinsmore Michelle Dorman Lisa Duke Scott Finlay Brenda Garcia Hannah Gerlach Judy Grant Sabina Grusnick Marin Hamilton Emily Hemming Kitty Koch Harriet LaMair Lauren Lovejoy Clare Mail Brooke Maloy Anne McGonagle Caryne Mesquita Kim Morss Dehncke Nicole Mulvany Meg Nichols Nancy Parker Jody Phelps

Bette Poppers Karen Ritz Elizabeth Roble Julie Sachs Denise Sanderson Jeremy Schwartz Sally Scott Irene Skodahl Kimberlee Sullivan Tolly Tate Alexis Thompson Kathy Tyree Sandy Wischmeyer PATRON TABLE HOSTS Always Best Care Senior Services Pam and Dutch Bansbach Kristin and Jim Bender Melinda and John Couzens Kim Morss Dehncke and Richard Dehncke Michelle and Mark Dorman Judy and Newell Grant The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver Peak to Peak Players Mark Ragan Laura and Tom Schneider Sally Scott and Kevin Kearney Jodi and Bill Sorensen The Stanley Hotel Sunrise Anglers, LLC Tolly Tate Kathy and Tom Tyree Pam and Sonny Wiegand DREAM EVENT CHAIR Michelle Dorman DREAM EVENT HOSTS Liz and Bill Armstrong Margaret and Stan Baker Kathleen Baker and Peter Shand Nancy Benson Butterfly Pavilion Ellie Caulkins Central City Opera Concourse Restaurant Moderne Melinda and John Couzens Karen and Jim Crossman Culinary Creative Group The Curtis Hotel

Lisa and Chris Curwen Kim Morss Dehnke and Richard Dehnke Denver Art Museum Denver Botanic Gardens Christina and Leonard Dinegar Michelle and Mark Dorman Epoch Estate Wines Scott Finlay and Tom Duggan USAF Captain Jason Gabriel Gateway Canyons Resort and Spa Judy and Newell Grant Sabina Grusnick Marin and Jesse Hamilton Nora Heitmann Lauren Horsman Betsy and Mike Huseby Jessica Knauf Harriet and Michael LaMair Little Man Ice Cream Sharon and Lanny Martin Carol and Dirk McDermott Abby and Sean Mercado Michele Morris Juan Padro Nancy Parker Jody and Bob Phelps Karen and Andrew Ritz Sally and Richard Russo Denise Sanderson Jeremy Schwartz Sally Scott and Kevin Kearney Jill Soukup Paul Tamburello Tolly Tate Alexis Thompson Kathy and Tom Tyree United Airlines University of Denver Archives White Dove Limousine, Inc. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Bella Bridesmaids Bouquets Catering by Design Estate Brands Distributing Company Event Rents The Hangar at Stanley Marketplace Gerry Link Ed Martin The Maven Hotel at Dairy Block

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St. Mary's Academy Congratulates Central City Flower Girls

Annabel June Benes

Christine Elizabeth Cole

Gretchen Carey Hummel

Grace Helena Madden

Lane Whitney Rippey

Inspiring leaders to act with integrity, seek justice, build community, and change the world.

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Congratulations to the 2019 Central City flower girls from Colorado Academy!

Left to right: Lucinda Geller, Anne Freeman, Caroline Burke-Dullinger, Andersen Dodge and Anna Fucarino

Transformational Teaching for Pre-K–12th Grade The CA experience is defined by rigor and balance as well as personalized attention from classroom teachers, arts faculty, coaches, and college counselors.

Our innovative curriculum inspires critical thinking and creativity in a community that promotes courage and kindness.

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Cherry Creek High School Congratulates Our 2019 Central City Flower Girls

Caroline Lizette Hashimoto

Mallory Lucille Groth

Charlotte Smith Danos

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SPECIAL THANKS AND GIFTS-IN-KIND Central City Opera sincerely appreciates the following individuals and organizations who have dedicated their time, opened their doors and contributed much-needed products and services in the last year.

Roopesh Aggarwal Allwell Rents American Society of Interior Designers-Colorado Amizetta Fresh Flowers Applewood Valley United Methodist Church Mr. and Mrs. William D. Armstrong Daniel Asher Robert Atkinson Carrie Baird Michael Baitzer Kathleen Baker and Peter Shand Margaret and Stan Baker Roger Baker John Baril and Brian Cook Mr. and Mrs. John Barker, Jr. Heather and Bobby Beam Reba Bechtel Joe Behm Edie Bell Bella Bridesmaids Jim and Kristin Bender Christine Benero and Brad Busse Nancy Benson Jennifer Berkman, Dorfman-Pacific Birdsall & Co. Blake Communications Boulder Public Library Bouquets Janet Braccio Nancy P. Brittain Tom Brock, Brock Media Company Dr. Steven Bruns Butler Rents Butterfly Pavilion C. Deen Buttorff Catering by Design Ellie Caulkins Ken Cazan CBS4 City of Central Central City Business Improvement District Central City Opera Guild Central Presbyterian Church Central Presents Centro San Juan Diego Gregg Chadwick Lorenzo Chavez ChoLon Restaurant Concepts Ms. Karen Christiansen City Floral Linda Clark Valerie Clausen Dr. and Mrs. Charles Cole Dr. Dawn Coleman Colorado Attorneys for the Arts Colorado Children's Chorale Colorado Music Festival and Center for Musical Arts Colorado Public Radio Colorado Springs Conservatory Judeth Shay Comstock Concourse Restaurant Moderne Tom and Diane Coohill Coohills Restaurant John and Melinda Couzens 100

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Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Crossman Kate Crowe Culinary Creative Group The Curtis Hotel Chris and Lisa Curwen Angelica Daneo Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Danos Christy Darling Kathleen and David Davia The Morss Dehnke Family Christie Del Ciotto Denver Art Museum Denver Botanic Gardens Denver Philharmonic Orchestra Denver Public Library, Central Branch Denver Public Library, Rudolfo (Corky) Gonzales Branch Denver Public Library, Ross-Cherry Creek Branch Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Dinegar DJ Thrashbot Brooke B. Domich Michelle and Mark Dorman Ms. Barbara Dorsey Leanne and Kevin Duncan Dwell Antiques BJ Dyer Blake Edmonds Steve Edmonds Kathy Eichenberger Ron Engels Epoch Estate Wines Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Erzinger Estate Brands Distributing Company Event Rents Mrs. Charles L. Ferguson Jeremy Fey Mr. Scott Finlay and Mr. Thomas J. Duggan Missy Fisher Flower Power Dave Forsyth Carolyn Foster Barbara Froula USAF Captain Jason Gabriel Gateway Canyons Resort and Spa George Washington's Mount Vernon The Gersh Agency Gilpin County Arts Association Gilpin Historical Society Dr. Lawrence Golan Bruce Gomez The Grand Z Casino Hotel Judy and Newell Grant Katie Grassby Alyson and Chris Graves Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Groene Sabina Grusnick Cameron Guenther Dr. Elissa Guralnick Marin and Jesse Hamilton The Hangar at Stanley Marketplace McLain Hedges Kathryn Heider Ms. Nora Heitmann Nancy M. Hemming Beverlee B. Henry Jack Hidahl

Homebody Lauren and Andrew Horsman Jane A. Hultin Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Huseby Impact Denver Innovest Portfolio Solutions, LLC Inside the Orchestra Sue Janssen Jay's Valet Jazz 93.5 Mark Jerome Kathy Jolly Mrs. Shirley Kaaz KCME Johanna Elizabeth Kelly Kent Denver School Jeannie Kerr Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group Taylor Kirkpatrick Mark and Barbara Kiryluk Wayne Kjorvestad Jessica Knauf Cindy Koch Gregg Kvistad and Amy Oaks Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. LaMair Liana Lansing The Lark Wanda and Don Larson Laser Focus Engraving Grady Lewis, USA Cable Jenaveve Linabary Gerry Link Little Man Ice Cream Ms. Anne Luedders Suzanne G. MacKenzie Max MacKissock Ed Martin Hilton G. Martin Lanny and Sharon Martin Suzanne Matthews Jannett Matusiak The Maven Hotel at Dairy Block Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Dirk McDermott Dr. Vicki McFarlane Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. McGonagle Priscilla Mead Larry and Barbara Meckel Lane M. Melott Abby and Sean Mercado Daniel Miera Ken Mirr Mizel Performing Arts Center at the Jewish Cultural Center John Moriarty Michelle Morris Kathleen M. Ness New Orleans Opera New Orleans Opera Guild Sam Nicholson Novacek Greenhouse Desmond O'Hagan Pacific Office Automation Juan Padro Nancy S. Parker Performing Arts Academy Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Phelps, Jr.

Plum Sage Flowers Bette and David Poppers Sebastian Ramirez-Lohner Dr. James Ramsey Susan B. Rawley Deb Ray Ray Rears Alex Richardson Melissa A. Rick Karen and Andrew Ritz Rocky Mountain PBS Rogue Productions Richard and Sally Russo St. Luke's United Methodist Church St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sanderson Laura Trask Schneider Jeremy Schwartz Melissa Schwartz Dr. Sarah K. Scott and Mr. Kevin Kearney Shaver-Ramsey Fine and Custom Rugs Nancy Siegel Christi Smith Mr. and Mrs. Lars O. Soderberg, Jr. Jill Soukup Stabio Productions The Stanley Hotel Matt and Kelly Stava Susan Stiff Kim Sullivan Swanky Bastard Diane Sweat Lon Symensma T is for Table Charlotte D’Armond Talbert Paul Tamburello Ms. Tolly Tate The Tended Thicket Ms. Barbara J. Thielemann Amanda Tipton Alexis Thompson Tommyknockers Holiday Craft Fair Elaine Torres Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Tyree, Jr. United Airlines The University of Denver Archives The University of Denver Music Library Dory Vanderhoof Mr. Roy Varela Buzz and George Ann Victor Shirley Voorhies Barbara Walton Steve Weil Kathy Wells Wellshire Event Center Mr. and Mrs. Troy A. Westergren Nancy and Jan Westman White Dove Limousine, Inc. Gary Whitney Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Wiedenmayer, Jr. Katherine Wilson Sandy and Jerry Wischmeyer Mary Allison Wright Rachel Zeidman ZIM Consulting Shira and Marty Zimmerman

CENTRAL CITY OPERA FLOWER GIRLS

2018 central city opera flower girl presentation. photos by bettinger photography.

2019 FLOWER GIRLS Annabel June Benes Caroline Grace Burke-Dullinger Delaney Anne Cain Christine Elizabeth Cole Charlotte Smith Danos Andersen LaCille Dodge Kristiana Monét Drawe

Grace Whitley Faircloth Jordan Nicole Fisher Anne Elizabeth Freeman Anna Courtney Fucarino Lucinda Suzanne Alvarado Geller Mallory Lucille Groth Caroline Lizette Hashimoto

Alexandra Carol Haymons Gretchen Carey Hummel Emma DeLacy Hybl Elsie Rose Jacobsen Annabelle Skye Johnson Taylor Penn Lester Grace Helena Madden

Tillie Anna Pinkowitz Lane Whitney Rippey Hayden Pierce Schwartz Abigail Jean Wilkinson

The Central City Opera Flower Girl Presentation is the oldest debutante ceremony in Colorado.

This special Central City Opera tradition began in 1932 at the grand re-opening of the Opera House in the midst of the Great Depression. Two strong-willed women with powerful pioneer roots — Anne Evans and Ida Kruse McFarlane — engaged key members of the community and founded the Central City Opera House Association.

With great vision, they created a summer music festival, bringing world-class theatrical and opera artists to the stage — a tradition that continues to this day.

Two young ladies, Nancy Kountze and Elaine Oakes, were presented as the first Flower Girls. They often watched the rehearsals of the inaugural production of the play Camille and were asked to pass out nosegays to

members of the audience at intermission. Those bouquets were tossed across the footlights at the end of the production, much as the miners had tossed gold coins onto the stage during curtain calls in the 1880s.

Prior to each Opera Festival, young women from prominent Colorado families are invited to be Central City Opera Flower Girls. A dynamite blast celebrating the rich mining history of Central City heralds their presentation and the church bells ring while the Flower Girls and their fathers dance the traditional “Yellow Rose Waltz” on Eureka Street in front of the Opera House. Patrons still receive flower nosegays to toss on stage, celebrating the beginning of another Opera Festival.

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CENTRAL CITY OPERA | REPERTORY Opera, Operetta, Musical Theatre by Composer

ADAMO Little Women, 2001 (Regional Premiere)

DEBUSSY The Blessed Damozel, 2019

HERBERT Naughty Marietta, 1986

AITKEN Fables, 1981

DÉLIBES Lakmé, 1965

ANDERSON Soyazhe, 1979 (World Premiere)

DONIZETTI The Daughter of the Regiment, 1985 Don Pasquale, 1987, 1978, 1967, 1951, 1950 The Elixir of Love, 1983, 1961 Lucia di Lammermoor, 2009, 1989, 1980, 1960

HOIBY The Scarf, 1981 Summer and Smoke, 2002 (Regional Premiere)

ARGENTO The Boor, 1980, 1978 Postcard from Morocco, 1980 (Regional Premiere) BALFE The Bohemian Girl, 1978 BARBER Vanessa, 2005 (Regional Premiere) BEACH Cabildo, 2017 BEETHOVEN Fidelio, 1947

BOISMORTIER Don Quixote and the Duchess, 2015 BRITTEN Billy Budd, 2019 (Colorado Premiere) The Burning Fiery Furnace, 2017 Curlew River, 2008 Gloriana, 2001 (First North American Production) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2002, 1977, 1974 Paul Bunyan, 2005 (Regional Premiere) The Prodigal Son, 2015 The Rape of Lucretia, 2008 The Turn of the Screw, 2012 CAVALLI Scipio Africanus, 1975 (Regional Premiere)

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FLOYD Of Mice and Men, 1970 (Regional Premiere) Susannah, 2008, 1997 (Regional Premiere)

GERSHWIN The Gershwin Years A Review, 1973

BIZET Carmen, 2017, 2011, 2002, 1993, 1985, 1966, 1953

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FLOTOW Martha, 1947

FRIML Rose Marie, 1993 The Vagabond King, 1994, 1987

BERNSTEIN Candide, 2000, 1980 West Side Story, 2008 Trouble in Tahiti, 2014

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GLUCK Orpheus, 1941 GOUNOD Faust, 1992, 1954 Romeo and Juliet, 1991, 1951 GRANADOS Goyescas, 2003 (Regional Premiere) GUO WENJING Poet Li Bai, 2007 (World Premiere) HÄNDEL Acis and Galatea, 2018 Amadigi di Gaula, 2011 (North American Fully-Staged Premiere) Rinaldo, 2009 (Regional Premiere) HEGGIE Three Decembers, 2010 (Regional Premiere) Dead Man Walking, 2014

KERN Show Boat, 2013 Denver LEHAR The Merry Widow, 1997, 1990, 1979, 1967, 1933 LEIGH Man of La Mancha, 2015 LEONCAVALLO I Pagliacci, 2003, 1958 LOEWE Gigi, 1974 MARSCHNER The Vampire, 1980 MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana, 1958 MASSENET Cendrillon, 2007 Le jongleur de Notre Dame, 2004 (Regional Premiere) Manon, 1994, 1965 MENOTTI Amelia Goes to the Ball, 1951 The Medium, 2012, 1979 The Saint of Bleecker Street, 2007 MOLLICONE The Face on the Barroom Floor, 2018, 2010-1978 (World Premiere) Gabriel’s Daughter, 2003 (World Premiere) MONTEVERDI L’incoronazione di Poppea, 2006 MOORE The Ballad of Baby Doe, 2016, 2006, 1996, 1988, 1981, 1976, 1966, 1959, 1956 (World Premiere), 2017

MOZART The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1946 Così fan tutte, 2017, 1990, 1948 Don Giovanni, 2006, 1975, 1963 The Impresario, 2016 The Magic Flute, 2018, 1995, 1989 The Marriage of Figaro, 2014, 1979, 1972, 1952 MUSTO Later the Same Evening, 2016 NICOLAI The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1953 OFFENBACH Isle of Tulipatan, 1981 Orpheus in the Underworld, 2010 La Périchole, 1958 The Tales of Hoffmann, 2004, 1948 PASATIERI Signor Deluso, 2011, 2010 POULENC Dialogues of the Carmelites, 2000 Litanies to the Black Virgin, 2019 Les mamelles de Tirésias, 2011

SCHEFTER The Mistake, 1981

WOLF-FERRARI The Four Ruffians, or School for Fathers, 1975

SMETANA The Bartered Bride, 1977, 1940

THEATRE PIECES An Afternoon with Ilka Chase, 1953 And Perhaps Happiness, 1958 Anna Russell, 1977 Any Wednesday, 1965 Barefoot in the Park, 1964 Burgess Meredith in An Unpleasant Evening with H. L. Mencken The Miracle Worker, 1961 Buried Child, 1980 Bus Stop, 1955 Cactus Flower, 1967 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, 1954 Camille, 1932 Central City Nights, 1935 The Circle, 1979 The Constant Wife, 1951 Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Loves of Charles II, 1951 Cornelia Otis Skinner in Mansion on the Hudson, 1951 Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Wives of Henry VIII, 1951 Daniel Reed, Susan Reed, Jordan Reed, 1952 The Devil’s Disciple, 1950 Diamond Lil, 1949 A Doll’s House, 1937 An Evening of Mirth and Music with Meredith and Rini Willson, 1961 Forty Carats, 1970 The Gazebo, 1959 Harvey, 1947, 1971 Hay Fever, 1980 The Hollow Crown, 1973 The Irregular Verb to Love, 1973 The Lark, 1956 Last of the Red Hot Lovers, 1972 Lillian Gish and the Movies, 1971 Mary, Mary, 1962 Max Morath at the Turn of the Century, 1971 A Month in the Country, 1979 Mrs. McThing, 1952 Never Too Late, 1963 The Odd Couple, 1966 Othello, 1934 The Play’s the Thing, 1948 Plaza Suite, 1969 Private Lives, 1972 Ruy Blas, 1938 Seeing Things with John Mason Brown, 1951 Separate Tables, 1957 Tallulah, A Memory, 1973 There’s a Girl in My Soup, 1968 A Thurber Carnival, 1960 The Time of the Cuckoo, 1953 William Windom Plays Thurber, 1975

SONDHEIM A Little Night Music, 2009 STRAUSS, J. Die Fledermaus, 1999, 1991, 1977, 1969, 1959, 1949 The Gypsy Baron, 1957 STRAUSS, R. Ariadne auf Naxos, 1954 Capriccio, 1976 Salome, 1978 Denver SULLIVAN The Gondoliers, 1936 H.M.S. Pinafore, 1968, 1955 Iolanthe, 1968, 1955 The Mikado, 1968, 1955 The Pirates of Penzance, 1968 Trial by Jury, 1955 The Yeomen of the Guard, 1968, 1955, 1939

PUCCINI La bohème, 2012, 2001, 1994, 1986, 1976 Denver, 1970, 1962, 1952 Gianni Schicchi, 2011, 1978 The Girl of the Golden West, 1999, 1962 Madama Butterfly, 2019, 2010, 2005, 1997, 1987, 1981, 1964, 1950 Tosca, 2016, 1998, 1991, 1969, 1956

SUPPE The Beautiful Galatea, 1951

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas, 2008

VERDI Aida, 1975 Denver, 1960 Falstaff, 1993, 1973, 1972 Macbeth, 1988 A Masked Ball, 1967 Rigoletto, 1996, 1984, 1974, 1957 La traviata, 2015, 2007, 2000, 1990, 1983, 1961, 1946 Il trovatore, 2018, 1963

RODGERS Oklahoma!, 2012 The Sound of Music, 2014 ROMBERG The Desert Song, 1989, 1985 The New Moon, 1996, 1988 The Student Prince, 2004, 1992, 1984

TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades, 1995 (Regional Premiere) ULLMANN Der Kaiser von Atlantis, 2013 Denver

ROREM Our Town, 2013

WARD The Crucible, 1998 (Regional Premiere) The Lady from Colorado, 1964 (World Premiere)

ROSSINI The Barber of Seville, 2013, 1998, 1986, 1979, 1973, 1965, 1941 Cinderella, 1984 The Italian Girl in Algiers, 2003, 1992, 1966

WEILL Die sieben Todsünden, 2011 (Regional Premiere) Street Scene, 1999 (Regional Premiere) The Threepenny Opera, 1995

SCHMIDT I Do! I Do!, 1971

WILDER Sunday Excursion, 1978

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CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OPERA HOUSE POLICIES Thank you for attending this Central City Opera performance. For the benefit of all patrons, please note the following policies: • Performances begin promptly at the advertised time. Latecomers and those that exit during a performance will not be admitted until the next intermission but can view the performance on closed-circuit television located on the first floor of the Teller House.

• Patron use of cellular phones, cameras and recording devices is not allowed in the Opera House. Food and drink are also not allowed in the Opera House.

• Please be considerate of other patrons and refrain from talking or making other audible disturbances during the performance.

• Unless the performance is cancelled, no refunds are given for any reason, including supertitle malfunction and weather conditions.

• Casting is subject to change without notice.

Restrooms are located off the Opera House Patio and on the lower floor of the Teller House. Should first aid become necessary, please contact the nearest usher.

GIFT SHOP Be sure to stop by the Central City Opera Gift Shop, located in the Teller House adjacent to the Opera House to find CCO 2019 Festival apparel and souvenirs, stylish opera hats and unique gifts.

GROUP SALES Groups of 10 or more receive a 20% discount. Contact the Box Office at 303.292.6700.

BOX OFFICE The Denver Box Office is located at 400 S. Colorado Boulevard, Suite 525, Denver, CO 80246. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday. The Box Office in Central City

is located at the Teller House adjacent to the Opera House and is open one hour before each performance. The Central City Opera Box Office number is 303.292.6700 or 1.800.851.8175. Ticketing online is available at centralcityopera.org.

PROGRAM CREDITS Editor: Margaret Siegrist Contributors: Michael Baitzer, John Baril, Ken Cazan, Angela Dombrowski, Karen T. Federing, Judith W. Grant, Dr. Paul Halverson, Jenaveve Linabary, Alison Moritz, Emily Murdock, Erin Osovets, Pelham G. Pearce, Jr., Margaret Siegrist, Alessandro Talevi Contributing Photographers: Bettinger Photography, Anne McGonagle, Amanda Tipton and Kathy Wells. Photographic print by Felice Beato (Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan) Art Direction and Graphic Design: Melissa Rick The Central City Opera Festival Program is published by Brock Media Company, 603 S. Broadway, Suite A, Boulder, CO 80305. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.

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