2019 Cincinnati Opera Program Book

CINCINNATI OPERA 2019

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

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ROMEO AND JULIET

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

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PORGY AND BESS

BLIND INJUSTICE

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Board of Trustees

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Cincinnati Opera Guild

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Season Artists

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Celebrations and Honorariums

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Orchestra and Chorus

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In Memoriam

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Donors

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Remembrances

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Opera Fusion

Repertoire

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Society of Angels

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Staff

126

Long-Term Subscribers

102

General Information

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PROGRAM CREDITS Editor-in-Chief Ashley Tongret Art Direction & Design Aimee Sposito Martini Illustrations The Marriage of Figaro: Tim O’Brien Romeo and Juliet: Jody Hewgill • Ariadne auf Naxos: Beppe Giacobbe • Porgy and Bess & Blind Injustice: Aimee Sposito Martini

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elcome to Cincinnati Opera’s 99th Season!

We open with what is widely considered an almost perfect opera, Mozart’s delightfully clever The Marriage of Figaro. With simply sublime music, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte deliver a story that is, at its lightest, a zany marital farce, and at its deepest, an exploration of class conflict that was far ahead of its time.

Next, a story known to all—Romeo and Juliet. French composer Charles Gounod tells the tale of star-crossed young lovers in Shakespeare’s eternal drama, adding operatic flare with glorious duets for the title characters set against the backdrop of the fatally feuding Montagues and Capulets.

We’re delighted to bring Strauss’s lighthearted gem, Ariadne auf Naxos, to the SCPA stage . . . with a twist. Our brand-new production transports the hilarious story to 1950s Cincinnati, complete with a colorful cast of characters inspired by figures you’re sure to recognize.

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is our greatest American opera, with music that has inspired audiences and musicians since its 1935 premiere. It’s this glorious score that brings the stories of the residents of Catfish Row to life, propelling them through times of joy and times of sorrow.

Rounding out our season, we proudly continue our commitment to new works with the world premiere of Blind Injustice, a collaboration with the Ohio Innocence Project at Cincinnati Law and the Young Professionals Choral Collective. This new opera, based on the true stories of six individuals who were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, depicts their grace, perseverance, and forgiveness as they journey to freedom.

As we look forward to our 100th Anniversary, we pause to salute our retiring Board President Doc Huffman, whose leadership over the past three years has enabled the company to achieve unprecedented growth and even higher standards of excellence. On behalf of the entire Opera team, Doc, grazie mille.

We also welcome President-Elect Liz Kathman Grubow, who will continue more than 30 years of extraordinary service to our company in her new role as board president.

Finally, our warmest thanks to all of you for helping to make Cincinnati Opera a tradition in our community for nearly a century.

Patricia K. Beggs The Harry Fath General Director & CEO

Evans Mirageas The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director

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GREETINGS FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT

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n behalf of the entire Opera family and its Board of Trustees, I am pleased to welcome you to Cincinnati Opera’s 99th Summer Festival, my last as President of the Board.

Ninety-nine seasons of grand opera. Just one year short of a century. As we enjoy our 99th season, we are already planning for the next, our 100th Anniversary Season, a monumental milestone in our timeline.

How are we celebrating this landmark year? Starting this September, we are embarking on a thrilling program of events. We’re connecting with our community, developing programs in collaboration with partners to create the greatest possible impact. We’re presenting exciting repertoire for our 2020 Summer Festival with a lineup of titles that excites our current audience and entices newcomers. We’re offering programming relevant and attractive to diverse audiences and the next generation of opera lovers.

The Opera certainly knows how to throw a party, and I look forward to celebrating this landmark year with all of you. And there’s no better person to lead the charge than the Opera’s Board President-Elect, Liz Kathman Grubow, who will carry us into a new century with fresh energy, style, and a contagious passion for the arts.

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as president of Cincinnati Opera these past three years, alongside Patty Beggs and Evans Mirageas. There’s a reason this opera company, second in age only to the Metropolitan Opera, has thrived for so long. None of this would be possible without the incredible work of the entire Opera team—the Board, the Guild, the Center Stage Board Associates, the staff, the artists, the crew, as well as our many patrons and partners. It takes a cast of thousands.

As we gather in Music Hall for our 99th season and look ahead to our 100th, let’s honor our rich past, live in the moment, and pave the way for a vibrant future.

Thanks for joining us. Enjoy the show!

Gary T. “Doc” Huffman President

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Vice-Presidents Boris Auerbach Jennifer Bellin Dorothy Anne Blatt Charlin Briggs Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Melanie M. Chavez Michael L. Cioffi Cathy Crain James T. Fitzgerald Barbara Hahn Donald E. Hoffman Kevin C. Jones Richard I. Lauf, Ph.D. Michael Marrero Jonathan McCann Julia B. Meister David Motch Robert W. Olson Edward B. Silberstein, M.D. John M. Tew, Jr., M.D. Ronna K. Willis Jeannine Winkelmann Anne M. Zaring Ex-Officio Patricia K. Beggs The Harry Fath General Director & CEO Karlee L. Hilliard Opera Guild President Katherine Lutes Chair, Center Stage Board Associates Regular Members Vicki Alpaugh Boris Auerbach Kathleen Ball Christopher Baucom

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THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Le Nozze di Figaro

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Sung in the original Italian Based on the 1784 play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro

by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais World premiere: May 1, 1786, at Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria Cincinnati Opera premiere: July 19, 1956, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion June 13 and 15, 2019, at Cincinnati Music Hall 17th and 18th company performances of Le Nozze di Figaro

Conductor Stage Director Assistant Stage Director Scenic & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Wig & Make-up Designer Chorus Master Original Choreography Choreographer Production Stage Manager

Marc Piollet Stephen Lawless* David Radames Toro* Leslie Travers* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Henri Venanzi Eric Sean Fogel* Oğulcan Borova Constance Dubinski Grubbs

Cast in order of vocal appearance Figaro, valet to Count Almaviva Susanna, a maid, engaged to Figaro Dr. Bartolo Marcellina, Dr. Bartolo’s housekeeper Cherubino, a page Count Almaviva Don Basilio, a music teacher Countess Almaviva Antonio, a gardener Don Curzio, a lawyer Barbarina, Antonio’s daughter Peasant girl

Andrew Wilkowske Janai Brugger* Kevin Burdette* Wendy Hill* Rihab Chaieb* Joseph Lattanzi Thomas J. Capobianco+ Susanna Phillips* Samuel Smith Martin Bakari Victoria Okafor*+ Claire Lopatka*

* Cincinnati Opera debut + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

This production is jointly owned by Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Philadelphia, San Diego Opera, and Palm Beach Opera. Scenery constructed by Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Costumes constructed by Kansas City Costume Company.

Edited for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe by Ludwig Finscher. Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Baerenreiter-Verlag, publisher and copyright owner.

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THE STORY Figaro, a servant to the Count, is preparing to marry Susanna, the Countess’s maid. Susanna tells Figaro that Count Almaviva has been pursuing her, and a furious Figaro makes plans to enact his revenge. Marcellina, an older woman, is jealous that Susanna has won Figaro’s heart. The young, flirtatious Cherubino enters, lamenting that the Count is angry with him for getting caught with the gardener’s daughter. Cherubino hides as Count Almaviva enters, attempting to woo Susanna; Almaviva discovers Cherubino and demands that he immediately leave the house and join the military.

Figaro asks Almaviva to preside over his wedding, but Almaviva puts him off.

The Countess laments the Count’s infidelity and wonders if her husband will ever love her again. Susanna tells the Countess of the plan she and Figaro have hatched to trick the womanizing Count. Almaviva charges into the room with a letter, which Figaro has planted, suggesting that the Countess has been unfaithful. Almaviva nearly catches Cherubino, who leaps from the window to escape. Almaviva learns that Marcellina has a contract whereby Figaro must marry her in order to pay off his debt; the Count is delighted.

Almaviva asks Susanna for a rendezvous in the garden, and the Countess insists that Susanna agree to the assignation. Marcellina demands that Figaro marry her, showing him the contract; in the course of the conversation, Figaro shows Marcellina his birthmark, which she recognizes as that of her long-lost son. Susanna grows jealous as she sees Marcellina and Figaro embrace, until she hears the amazing and happy story. The household gathers for Figaro and Susanna’s wedding. During the wedding dances, Susanna and the Countess move their plan forward: Susanna delivers a letter to the Count, suggesting a tryst in the garden.

In the garden, Figaro gets wind of Susanna’s letter to the Count and believes his bride is sneaking around on him. Susanna and the Countess appear, disguised as one another. The Count makes his move on Susanna (who is really the Countess); Figaro tells the Countess (who is really Susanna) about his wife’s philandering. Figaro hears Susanna’s voice and figures out the ruse; laughing, he kisses the real Susanna. Count Almaviva sees this kiss and is furious, until the Countess reveals herself. Almaviva apologizes for his jealousy and his wandering eye, and the tale ends on a happy note.

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IN PERFORMANCE Every note and incident in The Marriage of Figaro is a highlight worth focusing on, but in this long opera full of riches, some are standouts. At the very start of the opera, Figaro measures the small room he will share with Susanna to make sure a bed will fit. Feel the joy of Figaro and Susanna in love, and you will have the essence of how they will face all kinds of adversity throughout the opera. The last 20 minutes of the second act are a miracle of musical and textual construction, as surprise after comic surprise is revealed. “Canzonetta sull’aria,” the duet of Susanna and the Countess in Act III, is stunningly beautiful but also tells us a lot about the relationship between the two women. The opera’s conclusion, including the Count seeking forgiveness from his wife (“Contessa, perdono”), asks us all to find kindness in our hearts.

—Fred Plotkin

The performance will last approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes.

There will be one intermission.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

BY F R E D P L O T K I N

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SOPRANO YING FANG AS SUSANNA in the Opera Philadelphia production of The Marriage of Figaro. Photo by Kelly & Massa.

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When I teach opera to newcomers, I often speak of the “standard repertory,” those masterpieces that appear regularly at every opera company in the world. Although opera was conceived in Florence in 1597 and is still a thriving and evolving art form today, we think of the standard repertory as beginning with Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in 1786 and concluding with Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, in 1926. This means that most of the operas regularly staged come from a 140-year time frame, even though the art form is more than four centuries old.

Being the earliest work of the standard repertory might suggest that this opera would lack the relevance of more recent operas because its values and assumptions are based on 18th-century attitudes. And yet, The Marriage of Figaro has never ceased to amuse and challenge audiences, who respond to the characters with compassion—especially the maid Susanna and the woman she serves, the Countess Almaviva. We delight in the unbridled shenanigans of the hormone-infused teenager Cherubino (played by a mezzo-soprano) who, at the sight of an attractive woman, tells us, “I have no idea who I am and what I am doing.”

This is an opera set in Spain, based on a French play by Beaumarchais, with a brilliant Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by an Austrian genius. Yet it has an appeal that goes beyond European borders to achieve universality, because its characters are profoundly and perplexingly human.

For anyone, anywhere, who sees this opera, there is a spark of recognition in the longing to be loved that each character reveals.

As an American, I have always loved that this opera has its roots in the Enlightenment and that its European characters, whether they realize it or not, live by our national creed: The pursuit of happiness.

Like all of the greatest artistic achievements (and this opera certainly ranks among them), The Marriage of Figaro is something we can and should live with for a lifetime, revisiting it often and contrasting our own life experiences with the quicksilver and seemingly kaleidoscopic changes that happen to all of the characters in this story. As a young man, I saw this work as something of a sex farce, with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and unexpected surprises that drew big laughs.

As I got older, I came to admire how Mozart’s music and Da Ponte’s words combine to express the duality of the contradicting emotions and desires that live within us. We are all flawed, the opera tells us, and we must all strive to be better. And kinder. Recognizing this, I think, can make us more forgiving and more tolerant.

The Marriage of Figaro is in many ways miraculous, but one aspect is often overlooked: the entire story takes place in one day. We are reminded that everything can change in a single day, and we should live each day as if it is our last.

Fred Plotkin, author of Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera, writes for Operavore at wqxr.org and lectures for major opera companies worldwide.

COUNTESS ALMAVIVA (NICOLE CABELL) plots with Susanna (Sarah Tynan) and Cherubino (Marie Lenormand) in our 2009 production of The Marriage of Figaro.

Photo by Philip Groshong.

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ROMEO AND JULIET Roméo et Juliette

Music by Charles Gounod Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Sung in the original French Based on William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet World premiere: April 27, 1867, at Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, France Cincinnati Opera premiere: June 26, 1922, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion June 27 and 29, 2019, at Cincinnati Music Hall 23rd and 24th company performances of Roméo et Juliette

Conductor Stage Director Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Wig & Make-up Designer Chorus Master Choreographer Fight Director Production Stage Manager

Ramón Tebar Matthew Ozawa* William Boles* Sarah Bahr* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Henri Venanzi Oğulcan Borova Gina Cerimele-Mechley Megan Bennett

Cast in order of vocal appearance Tybalt, nephew of Count Capulet Count Paris Count Capulet, Juliet’s father Juliet Capulet Mercutio, Romeo’s friend Romeo Montague Gertrude, Juliet’s nurse Gregorio, Capulet’s servant Friar Laurent Stephano, Romeo’s page Benvolio, servant to the Montagues Duke of Verona

Piotr Buszewski* Simon Barrad Thomas Dreeze Nicole Cabell Hadleigh Adams Frédéric Antoun* Catherine Keen Phillip Bullock*+ Kenneth Shaw Reilly Nelson Darian Clonts*+ Vernon Hartman

* Cincinnati Opera debut + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

A co-production of Minnesota Opera and Cincinnati Opera.

Scenery and costumes constructed by Minnesota Opera and Cincinnati Opera.

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THE STORY The chorus introduces Verona’s rival families: the Capulets and Montagues.

The Montagues are hosting a ball, where Romeo Montague and Juliet, the daughter of Count Capulet, meet and fall in love. Tybalt, Count Capulet’s nephew, wishes to fight Romeo, but the Count won’t allow the disruption at his ball.

Later that night, in the Capulets’ garden, Romeo calls up to Juliet’s balcony. The couple exchanges promises of love.

Gertrude, Juliet’s nurse, helps Juliet steal away to meet Romeo at Friar Laurent’s cell. Laurent marries the lovers, hoping to reconcile the two warring houses. Outside, a fight breaks out between Tybalt and Mercutio, Romeo’s dear friend. Mercutio is killed in the duel; avenging him, Romeo kills Tybalt. The Duke banishes Romeo from Verona.

Romeo and Juliet spend their wedding night together, and at dawn Romeo leaves to hide in exile.

Count Capulet desires that Juliet marry the young noble Paris immediately. Juliet seeks out Friar Laurent, who provides her with a sleeping draught that will cause her to appear to be dead. Laurent tells Juliet that he will inform Romeo of the deceit; Romeo will be sent to Juliet in her family tomb and the two will run away together. Juliet drinks the potion as her family leads her to the chapel; she is believed dead.

Romeo has not received word from Laurent and believes Juliet has truly died. He breaks into her tomb and, in his grief, drinks a lethal poison. Juliet awakens just as Romeo takes his dying breath; she takes up his dagger and ends her life in order to be united with Romeo once more.

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IN PERFORMANCE Each of the lovers has memorable, defining arias—Romeo’s “Ah! lève-toi, soleil!” speaks to his impetuous and poetic nature, while Juliet’s “Je veux vivre” and Poison Aria show, respectively, her evolution from carefree adolescent to conflicted young wife.

Each of their four duets is also exquisite—including one at the end of the opera, since in this telling Juliet awakens before Romeo dies. My own favorite moment, though, is Romeo’s postlude to the Balcony scene. Sung over the dreamily arching melody that opens the scene, Romeo tenderly bids the absent Juliet a peaceful slumber, accompanied by a soft kiss wafted to her by the night breeze.

—Suzanne Martinucci

The performance will last approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes.

There will be two intermissions.

STAR-CROSSED

BY SUZANNE MARTINUCCI

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CINCINNATI AUDIENCES WERE THRILLED BY AMERICAN TENOR RICHARD LEECH’S 1989 performances in Romeo and Juliet. In his book A Celebration of Cincinnati Opera, historian Charles Parsons called Leech’s performance of Romeo’s big aria “a highlight not just of the season, but of a lifetime of opera-going.”

Photo by Philip Groshong.

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At one point in the late 1990s, while I was an usher at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, I was able to compare two very different pairs of singers in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet within two seasons of each other. Ruth Ann Swenson and Richard Leech, in the earlier season, were the “blonde” cast. These two Americans obviously relished singing together, and their golden looks and sunny personalities brought a youthful lightness and joy to the lovers’ interactions that neatly counterpointed the tragedy. Two seasons later, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu headed the “brunette” cast. Glamorous and intense, these two singers—who were married at the time—brought a genuine spark of romantic chemistry to their performances. I was intrigued by the persuasiveness of both pairings, and was drawn toward a greater acquaintance with this operatic version of a tale I felt I’d known nearly all my life.

The classic story of the “star-cross’d lovers” has inspired artists across the spectrum of creative imagination, from orchestral fantasies to film, ballet, and the Broadway stage. A resounding success at its premiere, Gounod’s opera may now seem to us rather tame when compared to the searing heights reached by a Prokofiev or a Bernstein. Yet whenever I hear Jussi Björling’s rendition of “Ah! lève-toi, soleil!” (one of the few that, to me, sounds as though Romeo is commanding—rather than imploring—the sun to rise), I am reminded of the passion that lies beneath the stylistic veneer of this French take on the story—the story of a love that perhaps can only happen to the very young, when every obstacle, every disappointment, can seem like a mortal threat.

Gounod himself evidently fell in love with the story and its musical possibilities when quite young himself. When he was about 16 and a student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatoire, Gounod attended a rehearsal of the Romeo and Juliet symphony by his idol, Hector Berlioz. Gounod was so affected by the music that he memorized a section of it and sought Berlioz out so that he could play it for him on the piano.

Other, later versions of the story may stress the youth of the protagonists; yet other versions, their passion. Still others (such as West Side Story) superbly exploit the violent discord between the two “families” amidst which the love story blossoms. In the Gounod opera, I am struck by the idealistic aspect of the young pair. Their romantic duets in the Balcony and Wedding Night scenes have a gentle lyricism and air of reverie that shows how, in each other’s presence, the rest of the world truly falls away. Librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré (who also supplied Gounod’s Faust libretto, based on Goethe) often quote Shakespeare’s poetry directly. Gounod’s skills as a church musician, as well as his religious faith (he once seriously considered entering the priesthood), also notably enhance the score. These young lovers ask God’s forgiveness for their joint suicide before sinking into their last embrace—the final act of a love that truly transcends death.

Suzanne Martinucci is a New York-based writer and lecturer on opera. She is a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Quiz during the Toll Brothers Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts.

SOPRANO ANGELA MORTELLARO as Juliet and tenor Joshua Dennis as Romeo in the Minnesota Opera production of Romeo and Juliet.

Photo by Dan Norman.

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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Sung in German and English World premiere: October 25, 1912, at Hoftheater in Stuttgart, Germany Revised version premiere: October 4, 1916, at Wiener Hofoper in Vienna, Austria Cincinnati Opera premiere: June 23, 1961, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion July 6, 11, 13, and 14, 2019, at Corbett Theater, School for Creative and Performing Arts 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th company performances of Ariadne auf Naxos

Jun Märkl Omer Ben Seadia* Ryan Howell* Ryan Park* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Oğulcan Borova Kelley Rourke Hannah Holthaus

Conductor Stage Director Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Wig & Make-up Designer Choreographer English Adaptation & Supertitles Production Stage Manager Cast in order of vocal appearance Major-Domo Music Teacher Composer Tenor/Bacchus Lackey/Truffaldin Officer/Brighella Zerbinetta Dancing Master/Scaramuccio Wig Maker Prima Donna/Ariadne Harlequin Naiad Dryad Echo

Thomas Hammons Morgan Smith Olivia Vote* Kyle van Schoonhoven* James Eder Jason Vest* Liv Redpath* David Walton* Zane Hill* Twyla Robinson Luis Alejandro Orozco Alexandra Schoeny Ellen Graham* Melissa Harvey

* Cincinnati Opera debut

A new production constructed by Cincinnati Opera.

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THE STORY It is 1958, a time when opera divas and film goddesses like Maria Callas and Marilyn Monroe almost equally excite the public’s attention. For a brief time, high art and popular entertainment make headlines side by side.

We find ourselves one summer evening at Pinecroft, the mansion built by Powel Crosley, Jr., wealthy Cincinnati inventor and arts patron.

Preparations are underway for a theatrical entertainment; Crosley has invited both a troupe of comics and an entire opera company to entertain his guests after supper. Consternation ensues when the butler announces that, because dinner is running long and fireworks will begin at precisely 9 p.m., the brilliant young Composer’s serious opera on the tragedy of the deserted Ariadne is to be performed simultaneously with the comedy! Zerbinetta, the vivacious leading lady of the comic troupe, flirts with the Composer in an attempt to unravel the plot of his opera. Idealistic though he is on matters of both music and love, the Composer cannot help

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but be charmed by her gaily cynical attitude to the tragic Ariadne. Then a bell rings: the performance is due to begin, and it is too late for the Composer to prevent the ruin of his tragic masterpiece.

Following a tradition begun in 1923, when Crosley’s radio station WLW first started broadcasting Cincinnati Opera performances from the Cincinnati Zoo, this performance will be broadcast live from Pinecroft. The opera-within-an-opera opens to reveal the inconsolable Ariadne lying outside a cave on the island of Naxos. She has been abandoned there by her lover Theseus and, despite all the efforts of the comic troupe to cheer her up, she longs to die. Zerbinetta preaches a more practical attitude: one man can soon be replaced with another. Bacchus arrives and Ariadne welcomes him, believing that he is the Herald of Death. Instead, to Zerbinetta’s satisfaction, Ariadne and Bacchus fall in love, celebrating their union in a long and rapturous duet.

IN PERFORMANCE Listen for: • The Composer’s Aria that ends the Prologue. It is a glorious paean to the power of music.

• Ariadne’s aria “Es gibt ein Reich,” a typical Straussian outpouring of heartfelt emotion.

• Zerbinetta’s tour-de-force aria “Grossmächtige Prinzessin”—it makes the fearsome Queen of the Night arias in The Magic Flute seem like lullabies!

• The final over-the-top duet between Bacchus and Ariadne.

Look for: • Various pieces of Powel Crosley-ana on the set, including the family crest on the main doors. It adorned nearly every Crosley product for four decades.

• The strong resemblance between our Zerbinetta and Marilyn Monroe, and the equally strong resemblance between our Prima Donna/Ariadne and Maria Callas.

These two legendary ladies of the 1950s actually met—at the infamous John F. Kennedy birthday party at Madison Square Garden in 1962.

• And last but not least, our Composer’s resemblance to playwright Arthur Miller, the one-time husband of Ms. Monroe!

—Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director

The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes.

There will be one intermission.

THE FIRST BACKSTAGE MUSICAL

BY E VA N S M I R A G E A S

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RADIO MAGNATE AND INVENTOR POWEL CROSLEY, JR., sits at the control console of his 500,000-watt transmitter at its debut in 1934. WLW had the largest broadcasting station ever built at the time, and it was right here in Cincinnati.

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Many of us have probably seen 42nd Street, A Star Is Born, or Noises Off. Each show takes us behind the scenes to reveal that the artists who transport us as performers are still humans, with all their faults and foibles. In Ariadne auf Naxos, librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and composer Richard Strauss go one step further, by poking gentle fun at themselves as well as their characters.

In creating this second version of their backstage comedy the creative team was making a virtue of necessity. In 1912, the two men were enamored with a plot that blended together a brilliant farce

by Molière with operatic elements. The result was a six-hour evening in the theater! While not exactly a flop, the original was simply too unwieldy for most opera houses to present.

Never one to waste a good idea, Strauss recycled some of the incidental music to form a symphonic suite called Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, after the title of Molière’s original play. In 1916, he and Hofmannsthal took the operatic scene which ended the original evening and expanded it into part two of the work you are about to see. For part one, they expanded an interlude from the original into a full-blown Prologue where we meet the creators and protagonists of the opera—with a twist.

The dilemma, presented to two competing troupes of entertainers hired to divert wealthy guests at a dinner party, is that their respective comedy and tragedy must be performed simultaneously. The Vienna premiere of this second version was an instant success.

We meet the headstrong young Composer— certainly a stand-in for the fiery young Richard Strauss—infuriated that his noble sentiments must compete with comedians. And which is more important—words or music? Hofmannsthal battled Strauss for lexical dominance throughout their decades of collaboration. The birdbrained prima donna and the vain heroic tenor both get sent up

in the Prologue while the exasperated Composer’s teacher tries to keep peace between the warring factions. The outsize emotions on stage are inspired by the outsize emotions and personalities of creators and performers backstage.

Our production is also inspired by an outsize personality, the “Henry Ford of Radio”: Cincinnati legend Powel Crosley, Jr. The list of Crosley’s inventions and innovations runs to pages, not the least of which was the first mass-market radio in the mid-1920s, the most powerful radio station in the USA (WLW at 500,000 watts), the first refrigerator with shelves in the door, and the first genuinely compact cars. He was also the savior of our bankrupt Cincinnati Reds in 1933—and the list goes on. We’ve removed Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s tale from “the home of the richest man in Vienna” to College Hill, Cincinnati, home to Crosley’s majestic mansion, Pinecroft.

The time period has been updated to the late 1950s, Crosley’s twilight years, when his fortunes were made and most of his dreams fulfilled, a time for him to bask in his accomplishments. While we have not recreated an existing room at Pinecroft, Crosley memorabilia will be in evidence. Crosley was an early friend of Cincinnati Opera. His engineers took WLW microphones to the Zoo in our fourth season in 1923, for what was probably the first-ever live broadcast of a full opera in the USA. Crosley is a fitting stand-in for the slightly eccentric original host of the Ariadne entertainment.

You’ve got to smile about a guy who had the pond at Pinecroft dredged into the shape of an arrow so that he could pilot his private planes accurately to the landing strip on his property!

Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera, is an award-winning record producer, lecturer, interviewer, presenter, and awards panelist.

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THE GERSHWINS®’ PORGY AND BESS®

By George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin Sung in the original English Based on the 1925 novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward and the 1927 play Porgy by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward World premiere: September 30, 1935, at Colonial Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts Cincinnati Opera premiere: June 28, 2012, at Cincinnati Music Hall July 20, 25, 27, and 28, 2019, at Cincinnati Music Hall 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th performances of Porgy and Bess

Conductor Original Production Stage Director Scenic Designer Costume Designer Assistant Costume Designer Lighting Designer Assistant Lighting Designer Wig & Make-up Designer Chorus Master Original Choreography Assistant Choreographer Fight Director Supertitles Author Production Stage Manager

David Charles Abell Francesca Zambello Garnett Bruce Peter J. Davison* Paul Tazewell* Loren Shaw* Mark McCullough* Peter W. Mitchell* James Geier Henri Venanzi Eric Sean Fogel Eboni Adams* Gina Cerimele-Mechley Kelley Rourke, Glimmerglass Festival Constance Dubinski Grubbs

Cast in order of vocal appearance Clara, Jake’s wife Mingo Sportin’ Life, dope peddler Jake, fisherman Serena, Robbins’s wife Robbins/Crab Man Jim, cotton picker Peter, honeyman Lily Maria, keeper of the cookshop Porgy, a disabled beggar Crown, a tough dockworker Bess, Crown’s girl Detective Undertaker Annie Nelson Strawberry Woman Coroner * Cincinnati Opera debut

Janai Brugger Ernest Jackson* Frederick Ballentine, Jr. Reginald Smith, Jr. Indra Thomas* Larry Hylton Phillip Bullock+ Everett McCorvey Gabriella Sam*+ La’Shelle Allen* Morris Robinson Nmon Ford Talise Trevigne* Spenser Smith* Nathaniel Thompson* Melisa Bonetti* Darian Clonts+ Brittany Logan*+ Jared Joplin + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

Scenery originally created for Glimmerglass Festival and Seattle Opera. Costumes constructed by Washington National Opera Costume Studio.

Sound Design by Joel Morain originally for Glimmerglass Festival.

The worldwide copyrights in the music of George and Ira Gershwin® for this presentation are licensed by the Gershwin Family. Porgy and Bess® is presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022. Gershwin is a registered trademark and service mark of Gershwin Enterprises. Porgy and Bess is a registered trademark and service mark of Porgy and Bess Enterprises.

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THE STORY The citizens of the Catfish Row neighborhood are relaxing in the Charleston heat. Clara comforts her baby with a lullaby while a group of men throw dice. Crown, a hot-headed drug addict, joins the game of craps. In a drunken fit of passion, Crown kills another gambler, then flees the scene, leaving his lover Bess behind. As the crowd waits for the police, only Porgy, a disabled beggar, is kind to Bess.

A month later, Porgy and Bess have found happiness together. Bess refuses dope from the drug dealer Sportin’ Life, who invites her to go to New York with him; Porgy chases Sportin’ Life away from Bess. Bess and the community enjoy a church picnic on nearby Kittiwah Island; Porgy stays behind in Catfish Row. When it is time to catch the steamboat home from Kittiwah, Bess is cornered

by Crown, who has been hiding on the island since the murder. Crown wants Bess to come away with him, but Bess explains that she’s with Porgy now.

Crown won’t take no for an answer.

A week has passed; a storm is on the horizon.

Bess has been feverish since her return from Kittiwah Island. Bess tells Porgy that she can’t refuse Crown if he comes for her; Porgy tells Bess that he will protect her. The next day, the residents of Catfish Row gather to pray for safety from the oncoming hurricane. There is a knock at the door: Crown has come to claim Bess. The group watches a boat capsize and Crown rushes out to try to save a drowning man.

The following evening, the women mourn for those lost in the storm. They assume Crown is among the dead, but that night he sneaks back to steal Bess away. Porgy kills Crown and is taken to jail. Sportin’ Life takes advantage of Porgy’s absence and tempts Bess into taking dope. A week later, Porgy returns from jail to find that Bess has gone to New York with Sportin’ Life. Undaunted, Porgy sets out in search of Bess.

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IN PERFORMANCE The duet between Porgy and Bess, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now,” gives me huge joy every time I conduct it. Here are some of the musical details that I love: • The arching melody, tinged with a jazzy flatted seventh (“Bess, you is my WO-man now”).

• The syncopated accompaniment to that tune, played by the cellos. I always encourage them to make it spiky, in contrast to the smoothness of the melody.

That makes the music dance as well as sing.

• The shifting harmonies under the end of the first phrase: “And you must laugh and sing and dance for two instead of one!” Those four chords take a detour to a foreign key before returning to home base.

• The amazing chords under “Oh, my Porgy, my man Porgy”: rich, complex jazz harmonies played by horns, trombones, and, in its first appearance, the tuba.

• Bess’s long, long, long final note, under which the harmony takes one last journey— but not too far—ending sweetly in the sunny key of F-sharp.

—Maestro David Charles Abell

The performance will last approximately 3 hours.

There will be one intermission.

RISE UP SINGING

BY MARK CLAGUE, PH.D.

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AS CLARA, SOPRANO JACQUELINE ECHOLS sang the lullaby “Summertime” to her baby in our 2012 production of Porgy and Bess.

Photo by Philip Groshong.

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Porgy and Bess is about resilience—about a community’s hope for a better future despite the cruel evidence of experience. In turn, Catfish Row resonates the ongoing struggles of American society; our collective battles with racial injustice, poverty, sexism, drug addiction, physical and sexual violence, natural disaster, and the divisions of our national community into sacred and secular, black and white.

It is at heart a human drama, and I only wish that performing it was but a reminder of despairs overcome and inequities vanquished. If this were true, Porgy and Bess would celebrate a transcendent human spirit, while serving as a warning about an era that should never return. Instead, Porgy and Bess is not simply a memory, but the narrative of an ongoing quest.

It is with potent intensity that Porgy and Bess expresses a contemporary urgency. The opera’s plot is propelled by the bias of white law enforcement.

When Crown attacks Bess after the picnic on Kittiwah Island, we give collective witness to the horror of violence against women. Recalling Katrina, Irma, and Maria, a hurricane decimates the fishing village. And at the opera’s close, drug addiction ensnares Bess, even as in our world today the scourge of opioid addiction continues to entrap and kill.

Performing Porgy and Bess thus enacts a critical dialogue, not just with the past, but about the present.

The lullaby “Summertime” is the opera’s first aria. It gives voice to the dreams of a mother for her child. The beauty of its initial note—a difficult entrance, soft and high in the soprano’s range, reflects the challenges facing Jake and Clara’s newborn son. The song’s hope and soaring lyricism serve as a tragic foil that foreshadows the loss to

come, yet its endless melody is also the seed of the resilience that will allow Catfish Row to carry on after tragedy.

The opera’s ending has typically left me dispirited. Gershwin’s music seems to sing of possibility—that Porgy could indeed find Bess—but I heard Porgy’s vow as a delusion. Yet, finding Bess is not the point. The opera is about hope, determination, and resilience. Ultimately, the tale is one of Porgy’s transformation. He begins the opera as a clever survivor, who scrapes subsistence from coins dropped by sympathetic passersby. Yet after he defeats Crown—the opera’s symbol of ultimate manhood—he inherits his mantle as the community’s source of strength. Here, Porgy finds not only love but purpose, and Catfish Row follows his lead.

Its heroism lies in its resilience, its never-ending resolve, despite the inevitability of tragedy, to rebuild, to struggle, to try again.

The opera itself is an expression of hope. Gershwin places the prodigious talents of Black artists on stage, providing an opportunity too often denied, then as today. This was an act of artistic activism— a powerful model of talent intersecting possibility.

If opera heightens our emotional experience of life, to inspire its listeners to be more fully human, Porgy and Bess, because it is challenging, demands that we resolve to struggle, to try again.

Mark Clague serves as Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan and Editor-in-Chief of the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition.

THE RESIDENTS OF CATFISH ROW pray for safety from the approaching hurricane in our 2012 production of Porgy and Bess. Photo by Philip Groshong.

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BLIND INJUSTICE Music by Scott Davenport Richards Libretto by David Cote Sung in English Based on the 2017 book Blind Injustice by Mark Godsey A Cincinnati Opera World Premiere July 22, 23, 24, 26, and 27, 2019, at Wilks Studio, Cincinnati Music Hall

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John Morris Russell* Robin Guarino Andromache Chalfant* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Henri Venanzi KellyAnn Nelson* David Cote Megan Bennett 35

Cast in order of vocal appearance Prosecutor Defense Attorney Nancy Smith Laurese Glover Derrick Wheatt Eugene Johnson Clarence Elkins Rickey Jackson Derrick’s Mother/Ensemble Alesha/Ensemble Earl Mann/Ensemble Earl Mann’s Cellmate/Ensemble

Joseph Lattanzi Samuel Levine* Maria Miller* Terrence Chin-Loy* Sankara Harouna* Miles Wilson-Toliver*+ Thomas J. Capobianco+ Eric Shane+ Deborah Nansteel* Victoria Okafor+ Morgan Smith Joseph Parrish*

* Cincinnati Opera debut + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

Presented in partnership with the Ohio Innocence Project at Cincinnati Law, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the Young Professionals Choral Collective.

A new production constructed by Cincinnati Opera.

THE STORY

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The story cuts between four cases. First is Nancy Smith, a Head Start bus driver from Lorain, who was accused of molesting the children she drove.

Despite a complete lack of evidence, Nancy was convicted on coached testimony. The East Cleveland 3—Laurese Glover, Eugene Johnson, and Derrick Wheatt—were driving in their neighborhood when they witnessed one man shoot another. Their convictions were based on a teenager’s shaky testimony and discredited forensic evidence. A group of scientists blithely extol the wonder of forensics.

Forensic details of the rape and murder of Judith Johnson and the rape of her young granddaughter are presented. Clarence Elkins, Johnson’s son-inlaw, was arrested for those crimes, despite an alibi and the absence of his DNA at the crime scene.

The only evidence was his traumatized niece saying her attacker resembled Clarence. Lastly, Rickey Jackson, along with two friends, was falsely identified in a murder by a boy who made up the story, and was later forced to stick to that story by the police. Rickey was sent to death row; the sentence was later reduced to life in prison.

Each exoneree describes life behind bars. Clarence recalls a panic attack. Laurese describes life in solitary confinement. Nancy prays passionately to God for strength. Eugene gets a taste of free-

dom, but has a nightmarish return. Derrick and his mother remain hopeful and dream of release.

While incarcerated, each person finds activities to pass the years and maintain their dignity. Some read, some paint, some pray. The Ohio Innocence Project gets involved and uncovers cracks in the cases. Clarence even helps to secure the evidence to free himself.

The Prosecutor refuses to accept such miscarriages of justice. The Defense Attorney and Alesha confront him. Nancy, Rickey, Clarence, and the East Cleveland 3 join in, urging the Prosecutor to see the truth. Breaking down, the Prosecutor shouts, “If I can’t do my job, then no one in this room is safe!”

Each wrongfully convicted person tells the story of their exoneration. They reunite and learn how each is getting on in life. Suddenly, the Defense Attorney and Alesha receive bad news about another client: The judge is blocking evidence on a death-penalty case. But they’ll keep fighting. In the finale, everyone asks: What makes a person strong enough to endure being wrongfully convicted? The Prosecutor wonders if he can live with doubt. One thing is certain: These six exonerees can finally declare, “I am free!”

IN PERFORMANCE The brilliance of Blind Injustice lies in its use of diverse musical styles to help bring truth to the characters’ stories. Listen for examples of gospel in “Eugene is Free,” hip-hop in the East Cleveland 3’s completely spoken “Cuyahoga,” funk in “Meet Rickey Jackson,” and minimalism in “The Wonder of Forensics.”

Scott Davenport Richards utilizes his unique compositional style to seamlessly weave these various genres into a cohesive score, culminating in a rich tapestry that tells the compelling story in a way that is beautiful and unflinchingly honest. The audience should ultimately leave this experience moved by the truth and power of Blind Injustice, while also humming an earworm or two.

—Eric Shane, baritone

The performance will last approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

There will be no intermission.

CLARENCE ELKINS Wrongfully convicted of a 1998 crime TIME SERVED: 7.5 YEARS

RICKEY JACKSON Wrongfully convicted of a 1975 crime TIME SERVED: 39 YEARS

NANCY SMITH Wrongfully convicted of a 1993 crime TIME SERVED: 15 YEARS

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EUGENE JOHNSON Wrongfully convicted of a 1995 crime TIME SERVED: 20 YEARS

LAURESE GLOVER Wrongfully convicted of a 1995 crime TIME SERVED: 20 YEARS

DERRICK WHEATT Wrongfully convicted of a 1995 crime TIME SERVED: 20 YEARS

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GIVING A

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VOICE TO THE VOICELESS

In early 2017, the young professionals committee of the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) agreed to host a happy hour with the Young Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC). The idea was for the two groups to have a fun night of networking, social justice, and song over a few beers.

KellyAnn Nelson, the founding director of YPCC, was intrigued by OIP’s work in freeing the innocent. She thought the two groups could collaborate on something bigger than a happy hour— much bigger. She reached out to her contacts at Cincinnati Opera to see if the Opera wanted to work with YPCC to somehow share OIP’s message through music.

Following discussions about which of the 28 OIP cases of innocents freed would make the best material for storytelling through song, the Opera sent a written proposal outlining the basic concept for a full-blown original opera called Blind Injustice, to make its world premiere in July 2019 in Music Hall. From that point forward, the project moved forward in harmonious allegro.

The Opera’s creative team, including librettist David Cote and stage director Robin Guarino, interviewed the six exonerees whose stories would be told in the opera. I’ll never forget how moved the creative team was when they first sat down with the exonerees and started hearing their stories face to face. I already knew that these six exonerees were living embodiments of the heroic protagonists that writers strive to create in works of operatic fiction. You rarely hear stories of the tragedy and triumph, and perseverance and grace, that come from the real people among us, rather than from the imaginations of Hollywood fiction.

I witnessed the artistic team’s gradual realization

BY MARK GODSEY

that they were working with some pretty special non-fiction, flesh-and-blood characters who were perfect for the opera stage.

In early 2018, I got the first draft of the libretto from Cote. Then, songs from composer Scott Davenport Richards started trickling in. I am amazed at the talent of Cote and Richards and am impressed with how the creative team took these complicated stories, pared them down to their essentials, and transformed them into words and music that makes them soar to a place greater than the sum of their parts.

Having an opera created about OIP’s work is very important and meaningful to our organization. Art and music, along with film and television, are catalysts for widespread social and cultural transformations. These media open hearts and minds and lead to reform in a way that the best legal briefs and courtroom arguments cannot.

I am grateful for this opportunity to spread the word about the societal problem of wrongful convictions. But the most remarkable thing about this opera is that it tells the stories of six incredible people in their own words. Their voices were silenced for more than 120 years of imprisonment combined. The opera Blind Injustice has not only given them back their voices, but it has done so in a way that will be heard through the rafters of Music Hall and beyond.

Mark Godsey is the cofounder and director of the Ohio Innocence Project, author of the book Blind Injustice, and a professor of criminal law at the University of Cincinnati.

SEASON ARTISTS CINCINNATI OPERA 2019 * Cincinnati Opera debut + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

DAVID CHARLES ABELL

Conductor (Jacksonville, North Carolina)

Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Die Fledermaus (2016); Silent Night (2014); Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: principal guest conductor (Philly POPS); conductor, Carousel (Vienna Volksoper); Sweeney Todd (Zürich Opera House); Eugene Onegin (Hawaii Opera Theatre) Upcoming: La Bohème (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Porgy and Bess (Atlanta Opera)

EBONI ADAMS

Choreographer (Los Angeles, California)

Assistant Choreographer, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: assistant choreographer, Porgy and Bess (Fort Worth Opera); dance captain, Candide; dancer, Hansel and Gretel & Macbeth (Los Angeles Opera)

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HADLEIGH ADAMS

Baritone (Wellington, New Zealand)

Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Dr. Falke, Die Fledermaus (2016) Elsewhere: Schaunard, La Bohème (San Francisco Opera); Carl-Magnus, A Little Night Music (Nederlandse Reisopera); Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers (Minnesota Opera) Upcoming: Ormonte, Partenope; Count Paris, Romeo and Juliet (San Francisco Opera); Schaunard, La Bohème (Lyric Opera of Kansas City)

LA’SHELLE ALLEN

Contralto (Baltimore, Maryland)

Maria, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: soloist (Harlem Spiritual Ensemble); Third Lady, Magic Flute (University of Kentucky Opera Theatre); The Other Woman/Ensemble, Porgy and Bess (Lyric Opera of Chicago & Royal Danish Opera) Upcoming: Maria, Porgy and Bess (Atlanta Opera); Ensemble, Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera)

FRÉDÉRIC ANTOUN

Tenor (Montréal, Québec)

Romeo, Romeo and Juliet* Elsewhere: soloist, Berlioz Lélio (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal); Des Grieux, Manon (Opéra Comique, Paris); Cassio, Otello (Opéra National de Paris) Upcoming: Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor (Opéra de Montréal); Alfredo, La Traviata (Royal Opera House, UK); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (Bavarian State Opera); Duke, Rigoletto (Opéra National de Paris)

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Costume Designer (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

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MARTIN BAKARI

Tenor (Yellow Springs, Ohio)

Don Curzio, Marriage of Figaro Cincinnati: Gastone, La Traviata (2018) Elsewhere: Charlie Parker, Yardbird (Atlanta Opera & Arizona Opera); Peter, Porgy and Bess (Seattle Opera & Fort Worth Opera); Ricky/Castleman, The Long Walk (Utah Opera & Pittsburgh Opera) Upcoming: Monsieur Triquet, Eugene Onegin (Seattle Opera); The Visitor, In the Penal Colony (Portland Opera)

FREDERICK BALLENTINE, JR.

Tenor (Norfolk, Virginia)

Sportin’ Life, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Steersman, Flying Dutchman (2018) Elsewhere: Don José, Carmen (Seattle Opera & Annapolis Opera); Sportin’ Life, Porgy and Bess (Dutch National Opera & English National Opera); Cacambo, Candide (Washington National Opera) Upcoming: Sportin’ Life, Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera); Charlie Parker, Yardbird (Seattle Opera) 42

SIMON BARRAD

Baritone (San Francisco, California)

Count Paris, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Marquis d’Obigny, La Traviata (2018) Elsewhere: Danilo, Merry Widow (Opera Project Columbus); Ottokar, Der Freischütz (Queen City Opera); soloist, Considering Matthew Shepard (Conspirare) Upcoming: artist in residence (Marlboro Music Festival, Vermont); soloist, Bach St. Matthew Passion (Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra)

OMER BEN SEADIA

Stage Director (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: associate director, Elektra (Canadian Opera Company); director, Yardbird (Atlanta Opera); Idomeneo (Wolf Trap Opera); After Life & Josephine (Opera Colorado); director & dramaturg, The Golden Spike (Utah Opera) Upcoming: Barber of Seville (Opera Colorado); Thumbprint (Chautauqua Opera); Marie Begins (Tri Cities Opera, New York)

WILLIAM BOLES

Scenic Designer (Chicago, Illinois)

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MELISA BONETTI

Mezzo-soprano (Queens, New York)

Annie, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Zerlina, Don Giovanni & Eva, An American Dream (Virginia Opera); soloist (Emilia Romagna Festival, Italy); Anita, West Side Story (Brott Music Festival, Ontario); Mercédès, Carmen (Richmond Symphony Orchestra); Tyler, Three Way (American Opera Projects; Nashville Opera; Shreveport Opera)

OĞULCAN BOROVA

Choreographer (Ankara, Turkey)

Marriage of Figaro; Romeo and Juliet; Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: Another Brick in the Wall (2018); dancer, Frida & Song from the Uproar (2017) Elsewhere: Ballet Master & principal dancer (Cincinnati Ballet); principal dancer (Ballet Internationale Indianapolis; Joffrey Ballet, Chicago); stager, Don Quixote (Atlanta Ballet); Lady of the Camellias (Finnish National Ballet)

GARNETT BRUCE

Stage Director (Baltimore, Maryland)

Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Madame Butterfly (2001) Elsewhere: Faust (Opera San Antonio & Washington National Opera); Porgy and Bess (Fort Worth Opera); Il Trittico (Peabody Opera Theatre, Baltimore); Candide (London Symphony Orchestra) Upcoming: La Traviata (Utah Opera); Carmen (Pittsburgh Opera); Turandot (Austin Opera) 44

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JANAI BRUGGER

Soprano (Chicago, Illinois)

Susanna, Marriage of Figaro* & Clara, Porgy and Bess Elsewhere: Servilia, La Clemenza di Tito (Los Angeles Opera); Ilia, Idomeneo & Liù, Turandot (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Pamina, Magic Flute (Royal Opera House, UK) Upcoming: Clara, Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera & Washington National Opera); soloist, Beethoven Choral Fantasy (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)

PHILLIP BULLOCK

Baritone (New York, New York) +

Gregorio, Romeo and Juliet* & Jim, Porgy and Bess Elsewhere: Moralès, Carmen (Richmond Symphony Orchestra); Dulcamara cover, Elixir of Love (Virginia Opera) Upcoming: God of Love, Romance of the Rose (Wet Ink Ensemble, New York)

KEVIN BURDETTE

Bass (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Dr. Bartolo, Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: Señor Russell, The Exterminating Angel (Metropolitan Opera); Pangloss/ Martin/Cacambo, Candide (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona); Sulpice, Daughter of the Regiment (Santa Fe Opera) Upcoming: Claggart, Billy Budd (Central City Opera); General Polkan, The Golden Cockerel (Dallas Opera); Beck Weathers, Everest (Austin Opera) 45

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PIOTR BUSZEWSKI

Tenor (Belchatow, Poland)

Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet* Elsewhere: Léandre, Le Médecin Malgré Lui (Odyssey Opera, Boston); Duke, Rigoletto (Wolf Trap Opera); Pigmalione, Il Pigmalione (New York City Opera); Prince, Rusalka; Ferrando, Così Fan Tutte; Romeo, Romeo and Juliet (Academy of Vocal Arts) Upcoming: Nemorino, Elixir of Love (Oper Leipzig, Germany); Young Artist Program (Teatro alla Scala)

NICOLE CABELL

Soprano (Ventura, California)

Juliet, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Mimì, La Bohème (2017); Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus (2016); Countess, Marriage of Figaro (2009) Elsewhere: Violetta, La Traviata (Minnesota Opera); Mimì, La Bohème (Pittsburgh Opera); Bess, Porgy and Bess (English National Opera); Micaela, Carmen (Atlanta Opera) Upcoming: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Michigan Opera Theatre)

THOMAS J. CAPOBIANCO

Tenor (Scranton, Pennsylvania) +

Don Basilio, Marriage of Figaro & Clarence Elkins, Blind Injustice Cincinnati: Messenger, Il Trovatore (2015) Elsewhere: Borsa, Rigoletto & Monostatos, Magic Flute (Kentucky Opera); Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus (Des Moines Metro Opera) Upcoming: High Priest of Amon cover, Akhnaten; The Fool cover, Wozzeck; Monostatos cover, Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera) 46

GINA CERIMELE-MECHLEY

Fight Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Romeo and Juliet & Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Flying Dutchman & Another Brick in the Wall (2018); Fidelio & Tosca (2016); Silent Night (2014) Elsewhere: Macbeth (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Two Trains Running (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) Upcoming: Miss Holmes (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Young Frankenstein (Cincinnati Actor’s Studio & Academy)

RIHAB CHAIEB

Mezzo-soprano (Sousse, Tunisia)

Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: Maria Malibran/Mozart/Nancy Da Ponte, The Phoenix (Houston Grand Opera); Fantasio, Fantasio (Opéra national de Montpellier, France); Zerlina, Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: Dorabella, Così Fan Tutte (Ópera Nacional de Chile); Carmen, Carmen (Oper Köln); Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro (Los Angeles Opera)

ANDROMACHE CHALFANT

Production Designer (New York, New York)

Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: scenic designer, Faust (Minnesota Opera); A Streetcar Named Desire (Virginia Opera); War Stories (Opera Philadelphia); Rimbaud in New York (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera Omaha)

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Tenor (Coral Springs, Florida)

Laurese Glover, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Idomeneo, Idomeneo (AfterWARds, Pittsburgh Opera); soloist, Carmina Burana (Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra); Young Jim Thompson, Glory Denied (Pittsburgh Opera); Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor (Indiana University Opera Theater) Upcoming: Mingo cover, Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera)

DARIAN CLONTS

Tenor (Atlanta, Georgia) +

Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet* & Nelson, Porgy and Bess Elsewhere: El Remendado, Carmen; Hérisson, L’Étoile; The Witch, Hansel and Gretel (Indiana University Opera Theater); Mingo, Porgy and Bess (Utah Festival Opera); Goro, Madame Butterfly (Indiana University Opera Theater & Utah Festival Opera)

DAVID COTE

Librettist (New York, New York)

Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: The Scarlet Ibis (Chicago Opera Theater; Boston Opera Collaborative; Prototype Festival, New York); Three Way (Nashville Opera & Brooklyn Academy of Music); Fade (Second Movement, London)

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Scenic Designer (London, England)

Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Marriage of Figaro (Theater an der Wien); Die Gezeichneten; Falstaff; Die Schweigsame Frau (Zürich Opera House); Capriccio (Berlin State Opera & Teatro Regio di Torino, Italy); Der Rosenkavalier; Carmen; Mary Stuart (English National Opera); The Rake’s Progress (Metropolitan Opera); Cyrano de Bergerac (Teatro alla Scala)

THOMAS DREEZE

Baritone (Toledo, Ohio)

Count Capulet, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Baron Douphol, La Traviata (2018); Mr. Rockefeller, Frida (2017); Spinelloccio, Gianni Schicchi (2012) Elsewhere: soloist, Mozart Requiem (Reno Philharmonic); Melchior, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra) Upcoming: soloist, Handel Messiah (Butler Philharmonic); Bach Christmas Oratorio (Knox Music Series)

JAMES EDER

Bass (Cleveland, Ohio)

Lackey/Truffaldin, Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: Dr. Grenvil, La Traviata & The Judge, Another Brick in the Wall (2018) Elsewhere: Dr. Grenvil, La Traviata (Cleveland Opera Theater); High Priest, Nabucco (Sarasota Opera); Colline, La Bohème (Opera Columbus); Benoit/Alcindoro, La Bohème (Knoxville Opera) Upcoming: Guccio, Gianni Schicchi (Opera Columbus)

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Baritone (Los Angeles, California)

Crown, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Don Pizarro, Fidelio (2016); Riolobo, Florencia en el Amazonas (2008) Elsewhere: Crown, Porgy and Bess (English National Opera); Celebrant, Bernstein Mass (Mostly Mozart Festival) Upcoming: Porgy and Bess excerpts (Cape Town Opera); Williams A Sea Symphony (Dallas Symphony Orchestra); Crown, Porgy and Bess (Atlanta Opera)

JAMES DEVELIN GEIER

Wig & Make-up Designer (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Resident Wig & Make-up Designer Cincinnati: 2004-2018 seasons Elsewhere: Pittsburgh Opera; Nutcracker (Cincinnati Ballet); Perfect Arrangement (Dezart Performs, Palm Springs) Upcoming: Pittsburgh Opera; Nutcracker (Cincinnati Ballet)

ELLEN GRAHAM

Mezzo-soprano (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Dryad, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Thisbe, La Cenerentola & Erda, Siegfried (Queen City Opera); Meg Page, Falstaff (University of Kentucky Opera Theatre)

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Stage Director (Bronxville, New York)

Stage Director & Dramaturg, Blind Injustice Cincinnati: As One (2018); Die Fledermaus (2016) Elsewhere: Dialogues of the Carmelites (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Marriage of Figaro (San Francisco Opera); Così Fan Tutte & Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera); The Rake’s Progress (Merola Opera Program, San Francisco) Upcoming: La Ville Morte (Catapult Opera, New York)

THOMAS HAMMONS

Bass-baritone (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Major-Domo, Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: Simone, Gianni Schicchi (2012); Ortel, Die Meistersinger (2010); Kissinger, Nixon in China (2007) Elsewhere: Dansker, Billy Budd (Des Moines Metro Opera); Abdullah, Shalimar the Clown (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) Upcoming: Benoit/Alcindoro, La Bohème & Don Magnifico, La Cenerentola (Dayton Opera)

SANKARA HAROUNA

Baritone (Chicago, Illinois)

Derrick Wheatt, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Melchior, Amahl and the Night Visitors; Germont, La Traviata; Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro; Don Alfonso/Guglielmo, Così Fan Tutte (Kentucky State University Opera/Musical Theatre Workshop); First Prison Guard, Dead Man Walking & Page, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Kentucky Opera) Upcoming: chorus, Carmen (Kentucky Opera) 51

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Baritone (Dallas, Texas)

Duke of Verona, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Senator Charles Potter, Fellow Travelers (2016); Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor (1990) Elsewhere: Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro; Eisenstein, Die Fledermaus; Figaro, Barber of Seville; Ping, Turandot; Silvio, Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: director, Marriage of Figaro (UC College-Conservatory of Music Opera Bootcamp)

MELISSA HARVEY

Soprano (Richburg, New York)

Echo, Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: Drusilla, Coronation of Poppea (2018); Calavera, Frida & Soprano 1, Song from the Uproar (2017) Elsewhere: Drusilla/Amore, Coronation of Poppea (Florentine Opera); Schatzi, The Flood (Opera Columbus); Iris, La Fête du Ruel (Catacoustic Consort) Upcoming: soloist, Italian Baroque concert (Catacoustic Consort)

THOMAS C. HASE

Lighting Designer (Madison, Wisconsin)

Resident Lighting Designer & Lighting Director Cincinnati: 1997-2018 seasons Elsewhere: lighting & production design, Ice (Finnish National Opera); lighting design, Ariadne auf Naxos (Santa Fe Opera); Marriage of Figaro (San Diego Opera); Silent Night (Opera North, UK) Upcoming: The Demon (Opéra National de Bordeaux); L’Orfeo (Nederlandse Reisopera); Hell’s Fury (Luminato Festival, Toronto) 52

WENDY HILL

Soprano (Racine, Wisconsin)

Marcellina, Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: Florencia, Florencia en el Amazonas; Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus; Romilda, Xerxes (Seattle Opera); Constance Fletcher, The Mother of Us All (San Francisco Opera); Alice B. Toklas, Blood on the Dining-Room Floor (WPA Theatre); Pat Nixon, Nixon in China (London Symphony Orchestra); La Princesse, Orphée (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

ZANE HILL

Baritone (Houston, Texas)

Wig Maker, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Doctor Gregg, Gallantry (Central City Opera); Marco, Gianni Schicchi & Le Premier Ministre, Cendrillon (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Apparition #1, Macbeth (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Count Robinson, Il Matrimonio Segreto (Oberlin Opera Theater)

RYAN HOWELL

Scenic Designer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Idomeneo (Wolf Trap Opera); Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (Geffen Playhouse); Evita (Westport Country Playhouse); Altar Boyz (Cape Playhouse); Ragtime (Serenbe Playhouse) Upcoming: Memphis (Playhouse on the Square); A Few Good Men & School Girls: Or, the African Mean Girls Play (Pittsburgh Public Theater)

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LARRY HYLTON

Tenor (Martinsville, Virginia)

Robbins/Crab Man, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Prince, Morning Star (2015); Robbins, Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: Sportin’ Life, Porgy and Bess (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra); chorus, Parsifal; Fidelio; William Tell (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: soloist (New York Harlem Singers Tour, Shanghai; Seoul; Tokyo)

ERNEST JACKSON

Tenor (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Mingo, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Mingo, Porgy and Bess (Fort Worth Opera); Nelson, Porgy and Bess (Seattle Opera & South Florida Symphony Orchestra); Malcolm, Macbeth (Empire Opera, New York); soloist, Little Match Girl Passion & Slave, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (Portland Opera); Dr. Caius, Sir John in Love (Bronx Opera)

JARED JOPLIN

Actor (St. Louis, Missouri)

Coroner, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: The Fan, Another Brick in the Wall (2018) Elsewhere: Phileas Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days (Human Race Theatre Company); Jay Gatsby, Great Gatsby (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Mr. Gilmer, To Kill a Mockingbird (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) Upcoming: Bill Fordham, August: Osage County (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company) 54

CATHERINE KEEN

Mezzo-soprano (Fort Mitchell, Kentucky)

Gertrude, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Zita, Gianni Schicchi (2012); soloist, 90th Anniversary Gala Concert & Emilia, Otello (2010) Elsewhere: Fenena, Nabucco & Mérope, Oedipe (Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels); Abuela, La Vida Breve (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra); Suzuki, Madame Butterfly (Los Angeles Opera); soloist, Mahler Symphony No. 8 (Ravinia Festival)

JOSEPH LATTANZI

Baritone (Atlanta, Georgia)

Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro & Prosecutor, Blind Injustice Cincinnati: Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers (2016); Moralès, Carmen (2014) Elsewhere: Audebert, Silent Night (Arizona Opera); Anthony Hope, Sweeney Todd (Atlanta Opera); Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers (Lyric Opera of Chicago) Upcoming: Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers (Arizona Opera); Dandini, La Cenerentola (Virginia Opera)

STEPHEN LAWLESS

Stage Director (Warrington, England)

Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera); Der Rosenkavalier (Bolshoi Opera); Roberto Devereux (San Francisco Opera); Die Fledermaus (Glyndebourne Festival); Faust (Santa Fe Opera); Griselda (Berlin State Opera)

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SAMUEL LEVINE

Tenor (Boston, Massachusetts)

Defense Attorney, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Uncle/Stranger, L’Invisible (Staatstheater Braunschweig, Germany); Vogelgesang, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (National Theatre Mannheim, Germany); Andy/Warder/Arnie, Lost Highway (Oper Frankfurt); Testo/Noah, War Stories (Opera Philadelphia) Upcoming: Walther, Tannhäuser (Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Austria)

BRITTANY LOGAN

Soprano (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) +

Strawberry Woman, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Juno, La Calisto (UC College-Conservatory of Music) Upcoming: Harriet, The Journey of Harriet Tubman (Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles)

CLAIRE LOPATKA

Soprano (Columbia, South Carolina)

Peasant Girl, Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: Kitty Packard, Dinner at Eight & Suor Genovieffa, Suor Angelica (UC CollegeConservatory of Music); Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi (Utah Festival Opera); Micaela, Carmen (Indiana University Opera Theater)

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JUN MÄRKL

Conductor (Munich, Germany)

Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: Fidelio (2016) Elsewhere: Götterdämmerung (Royal Opera House, UK); Il Trovatore & La Traviata (Metropolitan Opera); Der Ring des Nibelungen (Deutsche Oper Berlin & New National Theatre, Tokyo); Ariadne auf Naxos (San Francisco Opera); Flying Dutchman (Royal Danish Opera)

EVERETT MCCORVEY

Tenor (Montgomery, Alabama)

Peter, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Peter, Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: conductor, Carmina Burana & Beethoven Symphony N0. 9 (National Chorale, Lincoln Center); conductor (American Spiritual Ensemble); Peter/Nelson, Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: producer, Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica (University of Kentucky Opera Theatre)

MARK MCCULLOUGH

Lighting Designer (New York, New York)

Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Macbeth (Vienna State Opera); La Traviata (Bolshoi Opera); Marriage of Figaro (Metropolitan Opera); Cyrano de Bergerac (Teatro alla Scala) Upcoming: Dialogues of the Carmelites (Indiana University Opera Theater); La Traviata & Show Boat (Glimmerglass Festival); Norma (Ópera Nacional de Chile); Pearl Fishers (Houston Grand Opera) 57

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MARIA MILLER

Mezzo-soprano (Paducah, Kentucky)

Nancy Smith, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Lucy, Dinner at Eight & soloist, Scheherazade (UC College-Conservatory of Music); soloist, Bach Mass in B Minor (Collegium Cincinnati); Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra); soloist, Bernstein Mass (Cincinnati May Festival)

DEBORAH NANSTEEL

Mezzo-soprano (Washington, D.C.)

Derrick’s Mother/Ensemble, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Granma, Grapes of Wrath (Michigan Opera Theatre); Marthe, Faust & Flora, La Traviata (Washington National Opera); Mother, The Consul (Opera Saratoga); Alisa, Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: Emilia, Otello (Washington National Opera); Suzuki, Madame Butterfly (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Amneris, Aida (Opera Tampa)

KELLYANN NELSON

YPCC Director (Washington, D.C.)

Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: founder/artistic director (Young Professionals Choral Collective, Cincinnati); managing artistic director (Cincinnati Boychoir); choral conductor, PRISM (Carnegie Hall); artistic leader/educator (Princeton Girlchoir, Princeton University; Cincinnati Youth Choir; Gold Company II, Western Michigan University) 58

REILLY NELSON

Mezzo-soprano (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario)

Stephano, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Flora Bervoix, La Traviata & Vera Lynn, Another Brick in the Wall (2018); Dimas’s Mother/Lupe Marín, Frida (2017) Elsewhere: soloist, Mozart Requiem (Reno Philharmonic); Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Kentucky Opera); Trio, Trouble in Tahiti (Lexington Philharmonic) Upcoming: Suzuki, Madame Butterfly (Soo Theatre Project)

VICTORIA OKAFOR

Soprano (Hyattsville, Maryland) +

Barbarina, Marriage of Figaro* & Alesha/Ensemble, Blind Injustice Elsewhere: Servilia, La Clemenza di Tito (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Pamina, Magic Flute & Miss Wordsworth, Albert Herring (Shenandoah Conservatory)

LUIS ALEJANDRO OROZCO

Baritone (El Paso, Texas/Juárez, Mexico)

Harlequin, Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: baritone, María de Buenos Aires (2012) Elsewhere: Riolobo, Florencia en el Amazonas (San Diego Opera); Escamillo, Carmen (Michigan Opera Theatre); Hannah before, As One (Anchorage Opera) Upcoming: Silvio, Pagliacci (Opera Roanoke); Sharpless, Madame Butterfly (Opera Santa Barbara); Escamillo, Carmen (Florentine Opera)

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MATTHEW OZAWA

Stage Director (Los Angeles, California)

Romeo and Juliet* Elsewhere: Marriage of Figaro (Opera Colorado); An American Dream (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Madame Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera); An American Soldier (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Barber of Seville (Kentucky Opera); A Little Night Music (Des Moines Metro Opera) Upcoming: Three Queens (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Giulio Cesare (Boston Lyric Opera)

RYAN PARK

Costume Designer (New York, New York)

Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Cabaret (Boston Conservatory); LatinXOXO (Joe’s Pub at The Public); Beauty and the Beast & Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Drury Lane Theatre); Altar Boyz (Cape Playhouse); The Geranium on the Windowsill Just Died (Flint Youth Theatre); A Charlie Brown Christmas Live! (Gershwin Entertainment)

JOSEPH PARRISH

Baritone (Bloomfield, New Jersey)

Earl Mann’s Cellmate/Ensemble, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Frank, Die Fledermaus & Ben, The Telephone (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Claudio, Béatrice et Bénédict (Asheville Lyric Opera) Upcoming: Caronte, L’Orfeo (UC College-Conservatory of Music)

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SUSANNA PHILLIPS

Soprano (Birmingham, Alabama)

Countess Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: Musetta, La Bohème; Micaela, Carmen; Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: co-founder/co-artistic director (Twickenham Fest); Countess, Marriage of Figaro & Katya, Katya Kabanova (Metropolitan Opera); Susannah, Susannah (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis)

MARC PIOLLET

Conductor (Paris, France)

Marriage of Figaro Cincinnati: Carmen (2014) Elsewhere: Tales of Hoffmann (Stuttgart State Opera); Flying Dutchman & La Wally (Vienna Volksoper); Petrushka & L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) Upcoming: Don Giovanni (Deutsche Oper am Rhein); C(h)oeurs (Flemish Opera); Tristan und Isolde (Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari)

LIV REDPATH

Soprano (Edina, Minnesota)

Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Gretel, Hansel and Gretel & Amour, Orphée et Eurydice (Los Angeles Opera); Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Naxos (Santa Fe Opera) Upcoming: Sophie cover, Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera); soloist, Mozart Requiem (Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra); soloist, Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

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Composer (Montclair, New Jersey)

Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: composer/librettist, A Star Across the Ocean & Charlie Crosses the Nation (New York City Opera Vox Festival); composer, A Thousand Words Come to Mind (Inner Voices, New York)

MORRIS ROBINSON

Bass (Atlanta, Georgia)

Porgy, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Ferrando, Il Trovatore (2015); Ramfis, Aida (2013); Grand Inquisitor, Don Carlo (2009) Elsewhere: Porgy, Porgy and Bess (Teatro alla Scala); Sarastro, Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera); Grand Inquisitor, Don Carlo (Los Angeles Opera) Upcoming: Sarastro, Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera); Porgy, Porgy and Bess (Atlanta Opera)

TWYLA ROBINSON

Soprano (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

Prima Donna/Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: Becky Felderman, Morning Star (2015); Eva, Die Meistersinger (2010) Elsewhere: soloist, Britten War Requiem (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra); soloist, Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Chicago Sinfonietta); soloist, Mahler Symphony No. 4 (Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi) 62

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JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL

Conductor (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: Cincinnati Pops; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra; Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, China; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Upcoming: Cincinnati Pops; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa

GABRIELLA SAM

Soprano (Valley Stream, New York) +

Lily, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Carlotta, Dinner at Eight & Fox, The Cunning Little Vixen (UC CollegeConservatory of Music); Lily/Bess cover, Porgy and Bess & Ann Putnam, The Crucible (Glimmerglass Festival); Foreign Princess cover, Rusalka (Des Moines Metro Opera)

ALEXANDRA SCHOENY

Soprano (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Naiad, Ariadne auf Naxos Cincinnati: First Lady, Magic Flute (2017); Miss Lightfoot, Fellow Travelers (2016); Zerlina, Don Giovanni (2013) Elsewhere: Cunegonde, Candide (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra); Pamina, Magic Flute (PaciďŹ c Opera Project); Miss Lightfoot, Fellow Travelers (Prototype Festival, New York); soloist, Bernstein and Beyond (Philadelphia Orchestra) 63

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ERIC SHANE

Baritone (Tulsa, Oklahoma) +

Rickey Jackson, Blind Injustice Cincinnati: Bellhop, Die Fledermaus (2016) Elsewhere: Jake, Porgy and Bess (Glimmerglass Festival); Guadenzio, Il Signor Bruschino & Vicomte Cascada, The Merry Widow (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Count Paris, Romeo and Juliet (Castleton Festival, Virginia)

KENNETH SHAW

Bass-baritone (Newnan, Georgia)

Friar Laurent, Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Rabbi Engel, Morning Star (2015); Marquis d’Obigny, La Traviata (2012); Monterone, Rigoletto (2005) Elsewhere: Secret Police, The Consul (Dayton Opera); Doctor, Vanessa (Toledo Opera); Timur, Turandot (Kentucky Symphony Orchestra); Wotan, Das Rheingold (Pittsburgh Festival Opera)

MORGAN SMITH

Baritone (Seattle, Washington)

Music Teacher, Ariadne auf Naxos & Earl Mann/Ensemble, Blind Injustice Cincinnati: Aaron Greenspan, Morning Star (2015) Elsewhere: De Rocher, Dead Man Walking (Welsh National Opera); Tadeusz, The Passenger (Israeli Opera); Paul Jobs, Steve Jobs (Seattle Opera) Upcoming: soloist, Mozart Requiem (Seattle Symphony); Sharpless, Madame Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera) 64

REGINALD SMITH, JR.

Baritone (Atlanta, Georgia)

Jake, Porgy and Bess Cincinnati: Frazier, Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: Germont, La Traviata (Opera Carolina); Amonasro, Aida (Opera Idaho); Monterone, Rigoletto (San Francisco Opera); Sharpless, Madame Butterfly (Portland Opera) Upcoming: Jake, Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera); Amonasro, Aida (Houston Grand Opera & Toledo Opera)

SAMUEL SMITH

Bass (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Antonio, Marriage of Figaro Cincinnati: Giuseppe, La Traviata (2018); Sergeant, La Bohème (2017); Sciarrone, Tosca (2016); Old Gypsy, Il Trovatore (2015); chorus (1985-1990, 2015-2018) Elsewhere: Don Basilio, Barber of Seville (Lake George Opera, New York); Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale (Anchorage Opera)

SPENSER SMITH

Actor (Cleveland, Ohio)

Detective, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: King Charles, Sleeping Beauty & Max Menken, Superman (Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati); Roy, The Odd Couple; Richard Hannay, The 39 Steps; Chip Tolentino, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Commonwealth Theatre Company, Highland Heights); Franz, Rock of Ages (The Carnegie, Covington)

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Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Ain’t Too Proud; Hamilton; In the Heights; The Color Purple (Broadway); Jesus Christ Superstar Live! & The Wiz Live! (NBC) Upcoming: West Side Story (Amblin Entertainment & 20th Century Fox, directed by Steven Spielberg); Harriet (Focus Features, directed by Kasi Lemmons)

RAMÓN TEBAR

Conductor (Valencia, Spain)

Romeo and Juliet Cincinnati: Turandot (2015); Madame Butterfly (2014) Elsewhere: Daejong Philharmonic Orchestra, South Korea; Spanish National Orchestra; Carmen (Opera Naples); La Bohème (Vienna State Opera) Upcoming: Orquesta de València & Munich Radio Orchestra; La Cenerentola (Royal Swedish Opera); Don Pasquale (Vienna State Opera)

INDRA THOMAS

Soprano (Atlanta, Georgia)

Serena, Porgy and Bess* & Opera Goes to Church!

Elsewhere: soloist, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Carnegie Hall); Serena, Porgy and Bess (Spoleto Festival); Leonora, Il Trovatore (Arizona Opera); soloist, Verdi Requiem (Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra); Senta, Flying Dutchman (Princeton Festival); soloist, Britten War Requiem (Flint Symphony Orchestra) 66

LESLIE TRAVERS

Scenic & Costume Designer (London, England)

Marriage of Figaro* Elsewhere: scenic design, Manon Lescaut & Francesca da Rimini (Teatro alla Scala); scenic & costume design, I Puritani (Welsh National Opera; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Danish National Opera); Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera) Upcoming: scenic & costume design, Carmen (Welsh National Opera); scenic design, Rusalka (Santa Fe Opera)

TALISE TREVIGNE

Soprano (Cedar Knolls, New Jersey)

Bess, Porgy and Bess* Elsewhere: Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly (Theater Basel, Switzerland); Nedda, Pagliacci (Madison Opera); Ma, Proving Up (Opera Omaha); Clara, JFK (Opéra de Montréal); Bess, Porgy and Bess (Glimmerglass Festival) Upcoming: Kitty Hart, Dead Man Walking (Lyric Opera of Chicago); soloist, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Albany Symphony Orchestra)

KYLE VAN SCHOONHOVEN

Tenor (Lockport, New York)

Tenor/Bacchus, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Don José, Carmen (Buffalo Philharmonic); soloist, Verdi Requiem (New Choral Society); Rodolfo, La Bohème (Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra); soloist, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (San Antonio Symphony) Upcoming: Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Livermore Valley Opera, California); Chekalinsky, Queen of Spades (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

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Showcasing the work of female creators: composers, librettists, conductors, and directors

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atricia K. Beggs, The Harry Fath General Director & CEO of Cincinnati Opera, will retire following the company’s 100th Anniversary Season in 2020. Throughout her career, Patty has been a champion of artistic excellence, community, diversity, and new works, and has supported the work of female conductors, designers, directors, composers, and librettists. To honor the significant accomplishments of her 35-year career and ensure a lasting legacy, the Board of Trustees has established The Patricia K. Beggs Fund for Championing Women’s Voices.

The focus of the fund is artistic excellence and community engagement, with an emphasis on female creators. Money raised by the fund will be used to showcase the work of established and emerging female creators, as well as to promote diversity and gender parity in the field.

The fundraising effort is led by Cincinnati Opera’s Presidents Council, chaired by Cathy Crain. This will be a yearlong campaign, concluding at the end of the 2020 Summer Festival.

If you would like to make a donation to The Patricia K. Beggs Fund for Championing Women’s Voices, please contact Sneja H. Tomassian at (513) 768-5527 or stomassian@cincinnatiopera.org.

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HENRI VENANZI

Chorus Master (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Resident Chorus Master Cincinnati: 1990-2018 seasons Elsewhere: recital accompanist for Martina Arroyo, Kathleen Battle, Sondra Radvanovsky, Jerry Hadley; U.S. Artist in Residence (Xi’an, China) Upcoming: Chorus Master (Arizona Opera); Visiting Professor of Linguistics & Opera Coach (University of Arizona, Tucson); visiting artist (University of Alabama)

JASON VEST

Tenor (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Officer/Brighella, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Matthew Shepard, Considering Matthew Shepard (Conspirare & Cincinnati May Festival); Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi (State Opera Plovdiv & State Opera Stara Zagora, Bulgaria); Kaspar, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Amarillo Opera) Upcoming: Matthew Shepard, Considering Matthew Shepard (Ravinia Festival)

OLIVIA VOTE

Mezzo-soprano (St. Mary’s City, Maryland)

Composer, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Countess Ceprano, Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera); Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro (Inland Northwest Opera, Idaho); Adalgisa, Norma (Opera Southwest, Albuquerque); Maddalena, Rigoletto (North Carolina Opera) Upcoming: Neferneferuaten, Akhnaten (Metropolitan Opera); Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro (Hawaii Opera Theatre) 68

DAVID WALTON

Tenor (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Dancing Master/Scaramuccio, Ariadne auf Naxos* Elsewhere: Tom, Companionship (Fort Worth Opera); Oscar “Happy” Felsch, The Fix (Minnesota Opera); Tonio, Daughter of the Regiment (Opera Carolina); Almaviva, Barber of Seville (Glimmerglass Festival) Upcoming: Young Jim Thompson, Glory Denied (Union Avenue Opera, St. Louis); Don Ramiro, La Cenerentola (Virginia Opera)

ANDREW WILKOWSKE

Baritone (Willmar, Minnesota)

Figaro, Marriage of Figaro Cincinnati: Ponchel, Silent Night (2014) Elsewhere: Bill “Sleepy” Burns, The Fix; Owen Hart, Dead Man Walking; Ponchel, Silent Night (Minnesota Opera); Fugitive, The Invention of Morel (Long Beach Opera) Upcoming: Don Alfonso, Così Fan Tutte (Mill City Summer Opera, Minneapolis); Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Roanoke)

MILES WILSON-TOLIVER

Bass-baritone (Hartford, Connecticut) +

Eugene Johnson, Blind Injustice* Elsewhere: City, A Gathering of Sons; El Dancairo, Carmen; Bill Calhoun, Kiss Me Kate (Pittsburgh Festival Opera); Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea & Jove, La Calisto (Carnegie Mellon School of Music)

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The New Century Campaign is successfully he opening weekend of Cincinnati Opera has been funded in perpetuity by a gen- building capacity for Cincinnati Opera and funderous gift to the New Century Campaign ing significant projects in four key areas: The Great from The Chavez Family, in memory of Mrs. Ger- Works, continuing our commitment to the masteraldine V. Chavez. The gift was made in support of works of the operatic canon; The New Works, exThe Great Works pillar of the New Century Cam- panding the canon by creating and presenting new paign. Mrs. Chavez was a truly remarkable woman American opera; The Convener in the Community, broadening our reach within the who had a passion for the arts and community; and The Beyond, education. Within the arts, her true exploring innovative ways of conlove was the opera, and she shared necting audiences with opera. that love across three Chavez genYour gift to the New Century erations. This is a multi-generaCampaign will help us grow an tional gift to honor her legacy, but already world-class company, takmore importantly to support Cining it places it has never been, and cinnati Opera, which holds fond bringing the power of opera to evmemories for her children, granderyone. To make a gift to the New children, and great-grandchildren.

Century Campaign, please contact This generous gift continues the Sneja H. Tomassian at (513) 768Chavez family tradition of support 5527. Thank you for your support. for Cincinnati Opera’s presentations of the Great Works of the operatic canon.

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NEW CENTURY CAMPAIGN DONORS Anonymous Boris Auerbach* and Kathy Patchel Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Katherine and Nelson Bond Estate Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer A.K. and Gibby* Carey Chris and Vivienne Carlson Lydia Chavez and Mark Rabine Manuel and Cynthia Chavez Manuel Chavez III and MacKenzie Chavez Martin and Kimberly Chavez Melanie M. Chavez and Jeremy S. Campbell Miguel Chavez Robert and Debra Chavez Stefanie K. Chavez Susana Chavez and Jim O’Callahan Jackson, Jefferson, and Natalie Chavez-Campbell Andrea Chavez-Dietz and John Dietz Salvador Chavez-Holzman Michael L. Cioffi and Rachael A. Rowe The Corbett Foundation

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CORPORATE, GOVERNMENT, AND FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTIONS EXECUTIVE $50,000+

Patricia A. Corbett Estate and Trust

The Harry T. Wilks Family Foundation

PRINCIPAL $25,000+ The Alpaugh Foundation

The Corbett Foundation

Elma M. Lapp Foundation

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DIRECTOR $12,000+ Thomas Busse Charitable Trust

The Thomas J. Emery Memorial

The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation

The Fullgraf Foundation

Mueller Family Foundation

The Stephen H. Wilder Foundation

AMBASSADOR $6,000+ The CCM Harmony Fund: Challenging Hate and Prejudice through the Performing Arts

The LeBlond Foundation

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The John C. Griswold Foundation

The Robert C. and Adele R. Schiff Foundation

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Union Institute & University

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

LOYAL CORPORATE PARTNERS The generous and ongoing philanthropic leadership from the following companies supports various programs and projects that have helped establish Cincinnati Opera as an asset to the region and as an innovator in the opera industry.

Frost Brown Todd, LLC Since 1990

Seta Music Since 2004

Johnson Investment Counsel Since 1990

LPK Since 2005

1919 Investment Counsel Since 1991

Chavez Properties Since 2006

Thompson Hine LLP Since 1994

Western & Southern Financial Group Since 2006

U.S. Bank Since 1995 Fath Properties Since 1999 FRCH Nelson Since 1999 Ohio National Financial Services Since 2001

Ross, Sinclaire & Associates, LLC Since 2010

University of Cincinnati Medical Center/UC Health Since 2012 Burke, Inc. Since 2014 Episcopal Retirement Services Since 2014 Huntington Since 2014 ComDoc Since 2015

Hixson Architecture Engineering Interiors Since 2011 EY Since 2012

ARTSWAVE PARTNERS Cincinnati Opera acknowledges the following Partner Companies, Foundations, and their employees who generously participate in the Annual ArtsWave Community Campaign at the $100,000+ level. Your support helps make our community vibrant and connects people all across our region through the arts. Thank you!

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P&G Fifth Third Bank/ Fifth Third Foundation GE Cincinnati Bell Macy’s The Kroger Co. Western & Southern Financial Group

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Great American Insurance Group The Cincinnati Insurance Companies Enquirer Media U.S. Bank

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Developing New Works CORBETT OPERA FUSION AND OPERA FUSION: NEW WORKS EXONEREES WHOSE STORIES are featured in Blind Injustice met with the singers portraying them during an Opera Fusion: New Works workshop in November 2018. Front row: Rickey Jackson, baritone Eric Shane, Laurese Glover, tenor Chandler Johnson, Nancy Smith, mezzo-soprano Michelle La Jeunesse. Back row: Eugene Johnson, bass-baritone Miles Wilson-Toliver, Clarence Elkins, tenor Victor Cardamone, Derrick Wheatt, baritone Joseph Parrish.

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hanks to a generous three-year grant of $550,000 awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in September 2018, Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) will not only continue their successful joint program dedicated to the development of new American operas through Opera Fusion: New Works, but will expand that commitment to new works through two new initiatives: workshops for CO Next: Diverse Voices projects, and Composer & Librettist Residencies.

Cincinnati Opera’s CO Next: Diverse Voices initiative showcases new or existing works by diverse composers or librettists, or works that prominently feature diverse characters in the storyline.

With this new funding, CO Next projects in development will be strengthened by workshops and orchestra readings utilizing CCM students, employing the established workshop model of Opera Fusion: New Works.

The Composer & Librettist Residencies will offer composer/librettist teams a two-week education in and exposure to vocal training and the art of lyric singing at CCM. This intensive professional development opportunity could contribute greatly to the success of new works, as an understanding

of vocal training prepares opera creators to make the best use of a singer’s unique abilities.

These two new initiatives kicked off with the creative team of Blind Injustice, composer Scott Davenport Richards and librettist David Cote, and will continue with the team behind next summer’s Fierce, composer William Menefield and librettist Sheila Williams.

The previous cycle of Opera Fusion: New Works residencies concluded in November 2018 with Eurydice, by composer Matthew Aucoin and librettist Sarah Ruhl, a co-commission of The Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center New Works Program and LA Opera; and Postville: Hometown to the World, commissioned by a consortium of opera companies led by San Francisco Opera and Santa Fe Opera, composed by Laura Kaminsky to a libretto by Kimberly Reed.

These workshops marked the 7th anniversary of Opera Fusion: New Works and the 11th anniversary of Opera Fusion. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Corbett Foundation, respectively, these collaborative programs between Cincinnati Opera and CCM are nationally recognized for developing the next generation of talented artists and creating new American operatic repertoire.

CORBETT OPERA FUSION AND OPERA FUSION: NEW WORKS PARTICIPANTS Salvatore Atti Avery Bargasse Benjamin Beardon Victor Cardamone Carlos Cardenas Audrey Chait Shannon Cochran Joshua Cooke Antonio Cruz Olivia Darling

Victoria Ellington Payton Epperson Steph Flout Christina Hazen Zane Hill Ella Joyner Horn Michael Hyatt Tyler Johnson Nicholas Kelliher Jordan Krack

Michelle La Jeunesse William R. Langley Brittany Logan Claire Lopatka Hayley Maloney Steven McClain Raven McMillon Heidi Middendorf Maria Miller Victoria Okafor

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INDIVIDUAL AND FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTIONS Cincinnati Opera acknowledges with deep appreciation the leadership and generosity of the many individuals and family foundations who have supported the Opera with contributions to the 2019 Annual Fund.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $25,000+ The Alpaugh Foundation, Vicki and Peter Alpaugh Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Lydia Chavez and Mark Rabine Manuel and Cynthia Chavez Manuel Chavez III and MacKenzie Chavez Martin and Kimberly Chavez Melanie M. Chavez and Jeremy S. Campbell Robert and Debra Chavez Susana Chavez and Jim O’Callahan Andrea Chavez-Dietz and John Dietz Michael L. Cioffi and Rachael A. Rowe

Sheila and Christopher Cole Patricia A. Corbett Estate and Trust The Corbett Foundation Dr. Peter G. Courlas Cathy and Tom Crain Harry and Linda Fath Liz Kathman Grubow and Jerry Kathman Mr. and Mrs. Gary T. “Doc” Huffman Nanci Wilks Lanni and Nick Lanni Elma M. Lapp Foundation The Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust Joseph A. and Susan Pichler Fund* Dianne and J. David Rosenberg

Harry and Ann Santen The Louise Taft Semple Foundation Murray and Robin Sinclaire Estate of Miss Genevieve H. Smith James Stapleton and Dr. Elizabeth Shaughnessy Dr. and Mrs. John M. Tew, Jr. Larry and Beth Uhlenbrock Ginger and David Warner Barbara Wilks The Harry T. Wilks Family Foundation Edward Jay Wohlgemuth

Dr. James D. Faulkner The Fullgraf Foundation Dr. Jack and Barbara Hahn Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Mr. Donald E. Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine Renu Kotwal, M.D., and Rajbir Minhas, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kuntz Sherie Marek Mr. Michael A. Marrero and Dr. Candyse Jeffries, D.M.D. The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation Mrs. Beryl Merritt

Mueller Family Foundation Robert and Carol Olson Pamela S. Spangler Reis and Richard D. Reis Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Dr. and Mrs. Bradbury A. Skidmore Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Skidmore Nydia C. Tranter The Stephen H. Wilder Foundation Jeannine Winkelmann and John Winkelmann, M.D.

Arthur B. Casper Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Eric and Jennifer Dauer Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Donath Mr. Thaddeus and Dr. Kate Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Giannella

Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Jaroszewicz Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Jones Dr. Sid Khosla Mr. and Mrs. Brian Kincaid Lynn Larson Richard and Susan Lauf Kathleen Laurin-Martin and Joseph C. Martin The LeBlond Foundation

INNER CIRCLE $12,000+

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Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel Ms. Kathleen Ball Mary Ann and John Boorn Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer Thomas Busse Charitable Trust Chris and Vivienne Carlson Miguel Chavez Stefanie K. Chavez Jackson, Jefferson, and Natalie Chavez-Campbell Candace and David Cioffi Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Connelly Thomas Dreeze and Evans Mirageas The Thomas J. Emery Memorial

CORBETT SOCIETY $6,000+ Flávia Bastos, Ph.D., and Larry Huston Mr. Ronald T. Bates and Mr. Randy Lasley Christopher and Annie Baucom Mary M. Bergstein Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bitter Dorothy Anne Blatt Drs. Thomas and Barbara Boat Mr. Otto M. Budig, Jr.

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

*Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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CORBETT SOCIETY CONT’D $6,000+ Adele and Thomas Lippert Fund* Kathy and Jon McCann Ms. Julia B. Meister Ryan L. Messer and James A. Musuraca-Messer Morgan Horse Farm, Lebanon, Ohio Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch Mrs. Thomas L. Neyer, Sr. William J. Baude–Maurice E. Oshry Fund* Marta Pisarska, M.D., and Michael Maloney, M.D.

Mrs. George Rieveschl, Jr. Ms. Margaret T. Romero Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco Dr. and Mrs. Mark Schroer Mr. and Mrs. Russell P. Shelton Litsa and Van Spanos Peter Stambrook, Ph.D., and Mary Piper Mrs. Cynthia Starr Dr. Susan Strick Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor

Catharina Toltzis, Ph.D., and Robert Toltzis, M.D. Ellen and Ray van der Horst Mr. and Mrs. Jon H. Votel Mr. and Mrs. Stanford T. Williams, Jr. Ronna and Dr. James Willis Shelby O. Wood Peg and Jack Wyant Anne and Allen Zaring III Dr. and Mrs. Mario Zuccarello

Dr. and Mrs. Stewart B. Dunsker Mr. and Mrs. John Earls Ann Ellison Madeleine H. Gordon Ms. Karlee L. Hilliard Mr. Thomas Kellerman and Mrs. Barbara Hummel Doug Ignatius and Bruce Preston Mr. and Mrs. W.M. James Dr. Margaret M. LeMasters

Ms. Peggy A. Markstein Dr. Cora Ogle Marilyn Z. Ott Rev. Susan M. Pfeil Cass and Glenn Plott Mr. Nicholas W. Puncer James Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger Mr. and Mrs. Blake Selnick Mr. Brett Stover

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Horn Mr. Gordon Hullar and Ms. Doris Holzheimer Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Mr. Peter E. Landgren and Mrs. Judith Schonbach Landgren Dr. and Dr. Lynn Lin Alan L. Margulies and Gale D. Snoddy Mr. and Mrs. William McKim Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Mendelsohn Chris and Molly Milligan Jacob R. Morvay and Jenna Kamrass Morvay Opera Volunteers International Marge and Tom Osterman Estate of Charles Parsons Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Randolph Sandra L. Riegler, M.D. Dr. James and Maris Ryan

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. Mr. Shawn Scott and Mr. Neil Hoover Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Simon Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Mr. and Mrs. William Steenken Elizabeth M. Stites and Kevin C. Randall Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Stradling, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Strubbe Summerday Donor Advised Fund Carol Talbot Dr. John Tan Sneja H. and Raffi Tomassian Patti and Mike Veroni Mr. and Mrs. Chris Virgulak Carol Turni and Stephan Weigle St. Rose Church/ Fr. Barry Windholtz

AMBASSADORS SOCIETY $3,500+

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Mr. Allen Bernard Charlin and Peter Briggs Dr. Walter Bruyninckx and Dr. Anne-Marie B. Blancquaert Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Canarie A.K. and Gibby Carey Mr. Daniel B. and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham

ADVOCATES SOCIETY $1,500+ Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin Adam and Jennifer Bellin Salvador Chavez-Holzman Miss Norma L. Clark Mr. Louis M. Dauner Alegra Dauwalter Mr. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. Mrs. Vivian A. Dobur Ms. Joyce Elkus Ms. Revae Embs Dr. and Mrs. William J. Faulkner The Orpha Ann Gatch Foundation Mark and Michelle Godsey Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Graham The Gumbleton Family Julie Grady Heard and Benjamin D. Heard Ms. Linda Holthaus and Mr. Richard Zinicola Rachel Hopkins

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

*Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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Anonymous Dr. Richard S. Sarason and Anne S. Arenstein Ms. Aine Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bardes Bigglesworth Family Foundation Marlene and Robert Boden Shannon and Lee Carter Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cheng Dr. Thomas Cook Ms. Kristy Davis Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dean Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Dennison Mr. and Mrs. Andrew DeWitt Mrs. Melodie Dunn Mr. Stephen Eadicicco and Mr. Bradley Higginbotham Jack Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Ashley L. Ford Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Mr. Peter Gockerman Barbara Gould Mr. and Mrs. Marc Greenberg Renee Gustin Mr. and Mrs. Irving Harris Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Mrs. Anne P. Heldman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hemmer, Jr. Mr. Roger D. Hickman Mrs. Francie Hiltz Bo-Kyung and Kevin Kirby Mr. Peter E. Koenig and Ms. Lucy Hodgson

Daniel and Linette Kuy Mr. and Mrs. John T. LaMacchia Evelyn and Fred Lang Madeline and John T. Lawrence IV Mr. Shannon Lawson Ms. Sooncha Lee Ms. Janice Liebenberg and Mr. Andy Holzhauser Dr. and Mrs. Mitchel D. Livingston Mr. and Mrs. Phillip C. Long Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lukin Ms. Katherine Lutes Mr. Rick Maddux Mandare Foundation Mr. David L. Martin Dr. Janet P. McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Kyle McLaughlin Jim and Linda Miller Mr. Steven I. Monder Mary Lou Motl Ms. Nathalie Noblet Mr. and Mrs. Tom Osha Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Mr. Joe Peacock Mr. Michael E. Phillips Dr. Beatriz Porras and Dr. Alvaro A. Ryes Ms. Angela Powell Walker Carter F. Randolph, Ph.D. Mr. Mercer Reynolds Ms. Aliya Riddle Mr. Jack and Dr. Morleen Rouse Mr. James C. Rumford

Solveiga Rush Mrs. Lois P. Rust Mr. David Sanders, Jr. George Palmer Schober Ann Gallagher Schoen and Jerry Schoen Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Segal Megan Selnick Jane and Mark Serrianne Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Seward Roger and Margaret Smith Ms. Priya Sonty Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Ms. Tricia Suit and Mr. Eric Appleby Mr. and Mrs. Scott Telford Mrs. Carol S. Thaman Mr. and Mrs. G. Adrian Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Torre Mr. Michael Turner Ms. Mary Vondrak and Dr. Patrick G. Kirk Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Fund* Mr. Mark Wert and Mr. Mark Johnson Mr. Brett Willson and Mr. John C. Fredeking II Anne Warrington Wilson Ms. Candice Young and Mr. Kevin Pittinger Nancy L. Zimpher, Ph.D.

Mr. David Charpentier Ms. Renee Cifuentes Dr. Elizabeth Clark Ms. Marjorie Compton Mr. Randy Cook Ms. Andrea Costa Laden Bev and Bob Croskery Mrs. Jodelle S. Crosset Dr. George S. Deepe Stephen and Cynthia DeHoff Ms. Joanna Doerner Dr. Samuel N. Dorf and Dr. Maria Kisel Ms. Dianne Dunkelman and Mr. Peter Schwartz Carole H. and Michael Edwards, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Eichner Mr. Carl R. Fiora Frank Fiorito

Mrs. Mary Ann Foss Ms. Carolyn Fovel Ms. Patricia C. Friedersdorf Mrs. Carol S. Friel Lissa Urriquia and Dante Gapultos III Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gerson Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Goetz Judge Robert H. Gorman Mr. Brian Graves Dr. Jess Guarnaschelli Teddy Gumbleton Ms. Nancy L. Habig Ms. Jessica Hall Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Hamilton Mr. Mark Happe Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harcourt Mr. Jeff Harris Mrs. Robert F. Hartkemeier Mr. Thomas C. Hase

DEVELOPER $300+ Anonymous (2) Ms. Marina Abanto Mr. Allen Adair Mrs. Diana Adams Mrs. Robert B. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Andrews, Jr. Dr. Diane Babcock Mr. Peter P. Baden Mr. and Mrs. Todd Bailey Mr. and Mrs. William D. Baskett III Mr. Donald Beck and Lawrence E. Eynon, M.D. Glenda and Malcolm Bernstein Mr. David Brashear Lois and Joseph Brenner Mr. Charles G. Bretz, Jr. Mrs. Rebecca S. Brown Donald L. and Kathleen F. Burns Dr. Onassis Caneris Mrs. Kristin Carpenter

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

*Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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Dr. and Mrs. Martin W. Haskell Irmgard and Horst Hehmann The Heidt Family Foundation Ms. Lori Hiltenbeitel Ms. Emily M. Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Horne Mr. and Mrs. Sam Huttenbauer Ms. Anne Ilyinsky Ms. Spencer Ingerson Mr. and Mrs. William D. Ivers Ms. Marlene Johnson The Honorable Nathaniel Jones Drs. Marcia Kaplan and Michael Privitera Dr. James Kaya and Ms. Debra Gräuel Ms. Holly Keeler Ms. Misty Keeton Mr. and Mrs. Lorrence T. Kellar Ms. Arleene Keller Mr. Arthur Kerr, Jr. Dr. Magdalena and William Kerschner Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Kimmel Alexandria Kimsey Sarajane and Richard King Rachel Kirley and Joseph Jaquette Ms. Carol L. Kruse Elizabeth and Ken Kuresman Mr. Bruce A. Lafferre Ms. Mary Anne Lee Ms. Kristan Lenning Mr. Richard Lesueur

Mrs. Judy Lucas Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lundgren Rev. and Mrs. Damon Lynch, Jr. Dr. Linn Mangano Mr. and Mrs. Shayne O. Manning Raymond and Madelynn Matlock Mr. and Mrs. Don Maxwell Ms. Lindsay McCarren Mr. James B. McGregor, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Frank McWilliams Mr. Frances Mennore Dr. Stanley Milstein Eleanor and Sam Minkarah Mrs. Ivan S. Misrach Ms. Janet Moore and Mr. Neil W. Tollas Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Moravec Ms. Mary Sue Morrow Dr. and Mrs. Ashraf Nassef Mrs. Hiroshi Nishiyama Mr. and Mrs. Randall Olson Dr. Richard and Diane Park Jo Anne and Poul Pedersen John and Francie Pepper Ms. Marilyn W. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Petrie Mr. and Mrs. Michael Porada Ms. Betsy Resler Dr. and Mrs. Donald K. Riker Mrs. Barbara L. Robb Ms. Gale Z. Roberts Mr. Vincent Sansalone Ms. Cindy Scheets

Mr. Bernhard Schiefer Ms. Carol Schroeder Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Schwartz Jeffrey Seaman Mr. Steven Selss Mr. Lawrence Shields Ms. Louise Shouse Rev. Gareth M. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Matt Singleton Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Slavin Thomas S. Smith Sandra and Henry Spitz Ms. Marian Stapleton Amy Stier and Jef Brown Mr. and Mrs. George W. Taliaferro, Jr. Dr. Alan and Shelley Tarshis Ms. Wendy TenEyck Mr. and Mrs. Carlos R. Teran Mr. Dwayne Thomas Mrs. Marcella G. Trice Mr. and Mrs. Julian van Winkle Mr. Stephen Vogel The Voice of Your Customer Mr. Robert von Gerds Ms. Julia Wesselkamper and Ms. Julie Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Westheimer Ms. Barbara M. Weyand Mr. Charles L. Wilhelm Susan and Dean Windgassen John M. Yacher

NEW DONORS Cincinnati Opera extends a special thank-you to donors who made first-time gifts this season.

Miss Jen Albert Mr. Barrett P. Albrecht Mr. Peter P. Baden Mr. Parker Baldwin Ms. Cynthia Bambauer Mr. Andrew Bateman Dr. and Mrs. Pradeep Bekal M Bhandari Ms. Shauna A. Bleh Mr. and Mrs. Darryl I. Blitzer Kate Bonansinga Ms. Nancy Brinker Ms. Meredith Brown Mr. Clair L. Brustkern Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Burnett Mr. and Mrs. John R. Butz Mrs. Kristin Carpenter Ms. Sarah B. Carpenter Miss Karen E. Cervantes Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cheng

Ms. Karen Christopher Mrs. Patricia Clary and Mr. David Clary Dr. and Mrs. John Cohen Ms. Ruth K. Cole Douglas Colton Willard Connor Ms. Andrea Costa Laden Mrs. Dawn E. Cunningham IV Mr. Anthony D’Ambrosio and Mrs. Nazeena Alvi Ms. Marie J. Davis Ms. Mary Kay Delgado Ms. Genny Dennison Mr. Michael DeWeirdt Mr. Robert Edmistor Carole H. and Michael Edwards, M.D. Ms. Jenny Ehrman Mr. and Mrs. Alan Eichner Ms. Kristin Forte

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

Mr. Andrew Fowler Mr. Edward Freeman Ms. Meredith Furey Ms. Carolyn Gaker Mr. Michael Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Don Gardner Mr. Peter Gockerman Ms. Tammy Gonzalez Ms. Julie Goodman Ms. Amy Gottschalk Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Gottschalk Mr. Brian Graves Dr. Jess Guarnaschelli Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Habig Miss Molly Hackett Vincent Hand Mr. and Mrs. John Helbling Mr. Tom Henry Ms. Connie Hinitz Miss Maria B. Hooker

*Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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Ms. Leigh Hoopes Ms. Anne Ilyinsky Ms. Kimberly M. Jones Alexandria Kimsey Dr. Thomas R. King Gwen Kirles Ms. Geraldine Koesters Mr. Randolph L. Krumm and Mrs. Patricia Lutzius-Krumm Mr. Sebastien Lautru Patricia Lehman Ms. Carolyn Leicht Ms. Corrie Loeffler Claire Luby Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macdonald Mr. Scott E. MacEachen Ms. Alice Maggini Dr. Linn Mangano Ms. Linda Marchant Karl Mattox Mrs. Maryanne E. McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Kyle McLaughlin Ms. Nancy McMahon Ms. Lauren McMillan Ms. Nicole McPherson Victoria and Julian Mendoza Mr. Frances Mennore Dr. and Mrs. Karen Meyers-Jones, Esq. Ms. Patrice Miller

Ms. Madalyn Mills Anu Mitra Ms. Brandie L. Moon Ms. Ann Mooney Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Mooney Vickie Morris Mr. Jack Morton Mrs. Jennifer S. Mottier Mrs. Suzie Nagy Mr. Ivor Adam Niggebrugge Alvenia Norris Mr. Fred C. Orth III Mr. Scott R. Patterson Ms. Sharon Penn Mr. and Mrs. Dick Peterson Ms. Marisa Phillips Ms. Katie Pielage Ms. Jena Pugh Mr. and Mrs. Ram Ramalingam Aaron Reid Ms. Rebecca Riorden Mr. Helmut Roehrig Ms. Sara Rogers Ms. Margaret T. Romero Mr. James C. Rumford Ms. Marine Rzotkiewicz Mr. Vincent Sansalone Mr. Mark Scott Mr. and Mrs. Richard Seal

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

Ms. Page Seck Mr. Matthew Selker Ms. Lindsey Shackelford Mr. Lawrence Shields Ms. Jacquelin Smith Mary and Barry Smyth Patricia Spalding Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor Ms. Wendy TenEyck Miss Theresa Tesno Ms. Emily R. Thobe Mr. Dwayne Thomas Ms. Jacqueline Tolbert Latese Toran Mr. Norman Trepner and Mrs. Susan Thomsen Ellen Tunnell Ms. Sarah Ward Mr. Zachary Weber Mr. and Mrs. John Williams Mr. Ricky E. Williams, Jr. Ms. Kelly Wittich Mr. Helmut Wolfram Ms. Sally S. Wood Ms. Stavra Xanthakos Hyejung Yoon Mr. Jack Zhang Marcy Ziek Ms. Lisa A. Zimmer

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THANK YOU! Thank you to all of our donors, whose contributions have allowed Cincinnati Opera to continue our tradition of creating opera for everyone!

If you would like to make a gift to support our 2019 season, please call (513) 768-5520 or visit cincinnatiopera.org/support.

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SOCIETY OF ANGELS Cincinnati Opera acknowledges with deep gratitude the generosity of the following donors who have notified the company of their planned gifts. These legacy gifts ensure Cincinnati Opera’s future excellence and are a lasting tribute to the foresight of the distinguished members of Cincinnati Opera’s Society of Angels.

New Members Adam and Jennifer Bellin Dr. Walter Bruyninckx and Dr. Anne-Marie B. Blancquaert Ms. Gael T. Fischer Ms. Emily M. Hodges Kathleen Laurin-Martin and Joseph C. Martin Katherine Lutes Dr. Stanley Milstein Susan and Dean Windgassen

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Members Anonymous (2) Frank* and Janet Andress Mr. Boris Auerbach Dr. Diane Babcock Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Baker Ms. Henrietta Barlag Mr. Albert M. Bary Christopher Baucom Jane* and Edward C. Bavaria Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Marlene and Robert Boden Lois and Joseph Brenner Charlin and Peter Briggs Mrs. Cherylann D. Brinkman Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer A.K. and Gibby Carey Arthur B. Casper Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Norma L. Clark Dr. Peter G. Courlas Virginia K. Cover Cathy and Tom Crain Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Mr. Daniel B. and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mr. Harrison R.T. Davis Thomas Dreeze and Evans Mirageas Scott Atkinson* and Christopher D. Edwards Harry and Linda Fath Mr. Kingston Fletcher Dr. Donald W. Good Valeria and Frederick R. Good Madeleine H. Gordon Barbara Gould Marlesa A. Gray Dr. Jack and Barbara Hahn Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Suzanne and Robert* Hasl, M.D. Janet and Cornelius Hauck Hon. Dennis* and Berti Helmick Ms. Karlee L. Hilliard Don and Donna* Hoffman Doug Ignatius and Bruce Preston

Julia M.F.B. Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine Sarajane and Richard King Patrick M. Korb Roberta and Jeffrey P. Kuhn Elizabeth and Ken Kuresman Marjorie and Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Mr. Barry Lapidus Richard and Susan Lauf Anne and John* Lawrence, Jr. Gail Lennig and Gene Santoro* Adele and Thomas Lippert Joanie D. and William H. Lotts Mr. and Mrs. William F. Lyon Susan Sterrit Meyer Eleanor and Sam Minkarah Gloria and Arnold Morelli David and Vicky Motch Norbert and Linnea Nadel Robert and Carol Olson Marge and Tom Osterman Marilyn Z. Ott Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Nicholas Payne and Cynthia Heinrich Ms. Marilyn W. Peters Joseph and Susan Pichler Mr. Thomas F. Rehme Ellen and George* Rieveschl Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Solveiga Rush Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco Emalee Schavel Kenneth C. Schonberg* and Deborah Schultz Zell Schulman Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Thomas S. Smith Cynthia and William* Starr Ms. Nancy Steman Frank Stewart Brett Stover Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Stuhlreyer III Nydia C. Tranter Dick and Jane Tuten Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Anne M. Werner Jeannine Winkelmann and John Winkelmann, M.D. Dr. Atsuko Yatani Anne and Allen Zaring III Estates Estate of Mary Elizabeth Andrews Trust Estate of Thomas F. Buck Estate of Ellen K. Burroughs Estate of Thomas W. Busse

Estate of Wm. Rowell Chase Estate of Mrs. Marno Christensen Estate of Herbert and Betty Colker Estate of Patricia A. Corbett Estate of Wilma B. Cowley Estate of Miss Emilie T. Curry Estate of Virginia Curry Estate of Mary E. Day Estate of Luba Matiuk Dorman Estate of Ed P. Dundon Estate of Helen T. Ehlers Estate of Miss Natalie Feld Estate of Kenneth J. Furrier Estate of Katherine H. Groll Estate of Mrs. Eleanor Hazelton Estate of Mrs. Jean L. Hermann Estate of Anita Mae Imholt Estate of Dr. Stanley Kaplan Estate of Tailitha P. Kluver Estate of Ruth Koehl Estate of Linda and Samuel Kramer, M.D. Estate of Elizabeth W. Kyte Estate of Elma Lapp Estate of Rosemary R. Longano Estate of Mrs. Richardson McKinney Estate of Mary and William Meyer Estate of Bill Nimmo The Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust Estate of Margaret Ohanian Estate of Maurice E. Oshry Estate of Charles Parsons The Pearlman Charitable Remainder Unitrust Estate of James T. Peeler Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roder Estate of Marilyn A. Russley Estate of Joanne T. Santangelo Estate of Anna Jo and William Selnick Estate of Trudie and Kurt Seybold Estate of Miss Charlotte L. Shockley Estate of Charlotte E. Smith Estate of Miss Genevieve H. Smith Estate of Lois Staubitz Estate of Carolyn and Fred Strebel Estate of Mrs. Italo Tajo Estate of Phyllis Weston Estate of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilson Estate of Lura Carnes Wine Estate of Harris W. Wright *Deceased

A Shared Passion M E E T A C I N C I N N AT I O P E R A A N G E L NICHOLAS TSIMARAS AND PETER G. COURLAS, captured here at a gala fundraiser.

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For many years, Peter and Nick shared their rom the earliest days of his childhood, Pejoint love of music, particularly opera. Cincinnati ter G. Courlas was surrounded by music. has incredible music performed by a variety of His family emigrated from a small village groups year-round, but Peter wanted to enjoy opin Greece near Sparta, and brought with them opera beyond its summer season. Peter’s friend and era recordings, including those of Enrico Caruso. fellow Greek, the Opera’s They encouraged his interHarry T. Wilks Artistic Diest in singing in his high rector Evans Mirageas, was school and church choirs, “MUSIC very excited to work with and with the May FestiAND PARTICULARLY Peter to create this operatic val Chorus. It was Peter’s OPERA oasis for our community. sister, Helen Fischer, who “A recital series has been first took him to the Zoo are magical for me. I a dream of mine from my and introduced him to the can sit transfixed and first season fourteen years grand musical passion of my spirit soars.” ago,” said Mirageas. “To his life—opera. The inforknow that my dear friend mality of the Zoo’s outdoor –Dr. Peter G. Courlas Peter has made this a realvenue presented a unique ity is a joy.” experience for Cincinnati Peter has shared his love for music and opera audiences, as elephants and peacocks frequently with many throughout the years—family, friends, “accompanied” international opera stars. and his late spouse Nicholas Tsimaras. Now, by Little did Peter know that he was hearing some joining the Society of Angels and creating the Peter of the same world-class performers that his spouse G. Courlas and Nicholas Tsimaras Annual Recital Nicholas Tsimaras heard at the Metropolitan OpFund, he will share this love with the Cincinnati era, growing up in New York City. Singers such as community in perpetuity. Help us celebrate this Plácido Domingo, Beverly Sills, and Risë Stevens— wonderful gift at the inaugural recital on October Peter was star-struck visiting these great artists in 29, 2019, featuring tenor Stephen Costello in an their “shack dressing rooms” in the back of the evening of bel canto opera arias in concert.

Zoo’s opera pavilion.

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LONG-TERM SUBSCRIBERS Cincinnati Opera is thrilled to recognize the following individuals who have been subscribers with us for many years.

Did we miss you? Please let us know! Contact us at subscribers@cincinnatiopera.org or (513) 768-5520.

50 OR MORE YEARS Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams Mary M. Bergstein Glenda and Malcolm Bernstein Donald L. and Kathleen F. Burns The Corbett Foundation Mr. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley L. Ford Dr. Roger G. Giesel

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius W. Hauck Mel and John Kuempel Mr. J. Michael Meretta Ms. Herta L. Moore David and Vicky Motch Mr. and Mrs. Michael Porte Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Randolph Sandra L. Riegler, M.D.

Mrs. Lois P. Rust Mrs. James A. Sexton Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Mr. and Mrs. William Sontag Mrs. E. Dieter van der Bent

Ms. Gael T. Fischer Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald Ms. Lois Ann Gribler Mr. William Hackman Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Hunt, Jr. Dr. Murray S. Jaffe Ms. Marlene Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lundgren Mr. Carl G. Marquette, Jr. The Meister Family

Mrs. Thomas L. Neyer, Sr. Marilyn Z. Ott Harry and Ann Santen Mrs. Charles Schulenberg Zell Schulman Ms. Janet Schultz Mr. Richard I. Sininger Mr. Robert Patton Swaim Dr. and Mrs. John M. Tew, Jr. Mr. Michael L. Walton Mrs. Andrea K. Wiot

Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Larkin Mrs. John Lawrence, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. McLaughlin Ms. Marianne Meyers Eleanor and Sam Minkarah Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Moravec Mrs. Hiroshi Nishiyama Mr. Charles Perin Ms. Janet W. Prewitt Mr. Robert Reid Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Ms. Jeanette Rost

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco Jeffrey Seaman Mr. and Mrs. Phillip A. Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Stradling, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Susskind Nydia C. Tranter Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward Mr. Charles L. Wilhelm

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dyson Dr. and Mrs. Paul Esposito Dr. and Mrs. William J. Faulkner Ms. Dorothy Ann Feldis and Mr. William Klykylo Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Fudge

Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Giannella Ms. Deborah R. Grayson Irmgard and Horst Hehmann Mr. William Kredentser Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Kreider Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kuntz Ms. Catherine A. McGraw Ms. Suzanne Morrissey

45 TO 49 YEARS

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Mrs. Martha G. Anness Mr. Michael A. Battersby Dorothy Anne Blatt Mr. David Brashear Mrs. Abraham S. Braude Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwell Dr. Peter G. Courlas Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Cox Mrs. Sue B. Doan Mr. and Mrs. David Donnett Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Drill Ann Ellison

40 TO 44 YEARS Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel Mr. Michael R. Bachmann and Ms. Mary Combs Ms. Henrietta Barlag Mr. Donald Beck and Lawrence E. Eynon, M.D. A.K. and Gibby Carey Dr. George I. Colombel Mr. William R. Geiler, Jr., and Mrs. Nancy Geiler Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Hamilton Mr. William A. Herring Mr. Barry Lapidus

35 TO 39 YEARS Paule S. Asch, Ph.D. Ms. Mary Auer Dr. and Mrs. James P. Baden Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Mr. Neil Bortz Mr. and Mrs. James J. Brady Arthur B. Casper Mr. and Mrs. William Chang

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35 TO 39 YEARS CONT’D Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Neergaard Dr. and Mrs. James J. Nordlund Ms. Rosemary Novelli Ms. Mary L. Reardon James Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger Mr. Richard M. Sacksteder and Mr. Victor J. Canfield

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Segal Dr. and Mrs. John C. Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Shulman Mr. and Mrs. William Strubbe Dr. Sally Taylor Mr. Charles L. Thomas, Jr.

Miss Arlene A. Thorwarth Marcella G. Trice Ms. Karen Webb Dr. Scottie Weiss Jim and Esther Wright Mr. and Mrs. John M. Zoller

Mr. Gerald S. Greenberg and Ms. Pamela Meyers Dr. Jack and Barbara Hahn Emma Hartkemeier Bob Roesbery and Nancy Helwig Donald E. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Horne Mrs. James Hsu Mr. Isaiah Hyman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W.M. James Mr. and Mrs. Alex Keller Mr. Daryl E. Koebcke Patrick M. Korb Richard and Susan Lauf Mr. and Mrs. David Lemmon Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lichtenberger

Ms. Vicky Mary Mrs. Jane Master Mr. George E. Menges Mrs. Lilián Estévez de Pagani Joseph and Susan Pichler Dr. Elaine Y. Rosin Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. William T. Sena, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Mr. Norman J. Thomas Ellen and Ray van der Horst Mr. Arnold Wasserman Mrs. Henry R. Winkler Edward Jay Wohlgemuth Ms. Susan Wulsin

Mr. Stephen Dana Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dudero Dr. and Mrs. Stewart B. Dunsker Leslie R. Dye, M.D. Mrs. Jack Edelman Dr. David and Mrs. Jill Fankhauser Harry and Linda Fath Dr. James D. Faulkner Mr. Carl R. Fiora Mr. Richard Freudenberger Mr. Ewin Gaby Mrs. Janelle Gelfand Dr. Sheila C. Gelman and Dr. David Greenblatt Dr. Fredrick Gensler Valeria and Frederick R. Good Judge Robert H. Gorman Dr. Ralph A. Gruppo Mrs. Frederick Haffner Ms. Kathleen M. Hammons Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harcourt Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Julie Grady Heard and Benjamin Heard Mr. Roger D. Hickman Dr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Johnston

Ms. Brenda Jones Ms. Marlene Kessler Mrs. Mary Anne Kingery Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Kreider Mrs. Linda Linker Adele and Thomas Lippert Al and Mary J. López Joanie and Bill Lotts Luke and Neta Lovell Ms. Kathryn Maier Mr. Brent Manley Raymond and Madelynn Matlock Mr. and Mrs. Don Maxwell Dr. and Mrs. Frank McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Lon Mendelsohn Mr. and Mrs. R. William Mischler Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Mystkowski Ms. Valerie Newell and Mr. Timothy Smith Robert and Carol Olson Marge and Tom Osterman Dr. and Mrs. Alter G. Peerless Mr. and Mrs. Philip Remmel Mr. William Renwick and Ms. Debra Bowles Reverend David Robisch

30 TO 34 YEARS Barbara Aberlin Mr. John F. Baer Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Lois and Joseph Brenner Mrs. Cherylann D. Brinkman Mrs. Rebecca S. Brown Mr. J. Robert Chambers Mrs. Carole Charleville Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Ms. Phyllis Tattershall England Ms. Alice Fegelman and Dr. Leo H. Munick Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Garrison Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Gehrig Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gerson Dr. Donald W. Good 104

25 TO 29 YEARS Ms. Sandy Adams Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Andrews, Jr. Mr. Gary J. Anglin William and Eve Appleton Reverend Christopher R. Armstrong Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bankston Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baumann Dr. Alfred J. Berger Drs. Thomas and Barbara Boat Marlene and Robert Boden Charlin and Peter Briggs Dr. Walter Bruyninckx and Dr. Anne-Marie B. Blancquaert Mr. James D. Carr and Ms. Jane Wakerman Nicholas P. Ciafardini Miss Norma L. Clark Sheila and Christopher Cole Cathy and Tom Crain Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Mrs. Jodelle S. Crosset Mr. Daniel B. and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham

25 TO 29 YEARS CONT’D Ann Gallagher Schoen and Jerry Schoen Mr. Joseph Schoettmer Mr. John T. Schreiber and Ms. Claire E. Fessler Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schulhoff Deborah Schultz Mrs. David Schwieterman Rebecca and George Shybut, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Silverman

Murray and Robin Sinclaire Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Roger and Margaret Smith James Stapleton and Dr. Elizabeth Shaughnessy Brett Stover Mr. and Mrs. Peter Szucs Ms. Bernadette Tallarico Mr. Garry Terrell and Ms. Rebecca Terrell

Larry and Beth Uhlenbrock Ginger and David Warner Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Whitlatch Ronna and Dr. James Willis Fr. Barry Windholtz Shelby O. Wood John M. Yacher Dr. Richard Young

Ms. Melissa Haas Mr. and Mrs. Paul Herbert Ms. Emily M. Hodges Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer Mr. Martin Hogan Mr. and Mrs. Tom Horwitz Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Hughes Mrs. Isabelle Hugo Doug Ignatius and Bruce Preston Mr. Ralph Isaacs Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Jablonsky Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Janson Kerry Rockford Enterprises Inc. Sarajane and Richard King Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Klein Mr. Peter E. Koenig and Ms. Lucy Hodgson Mr. and Mrs. Mel Kreitzer Ms. Kathryn S. Lang Ms. Margaret Lienhart Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Longtin Mrs. Judy Lucas Mr. Alex Lukondi Mr. and Mrs. John-Peter Lund Ms. Kathy Mank Ms. Loyce Martin Mr. Miguel Martinez and Mr. David Grome Mr. and Mrs. Martin McConnell Dr. Janet P. McDaniel Ms. Mary Anne McMillan Mr. and Mrs. Jan Methlie Mr. Ronald L. Miller Chris and Molly Milligan Mr. Charles J. Moomaw Sally A. More Mr. Walter Morris

Ms. Joan Murray Ms. Lisa Muvich Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norton Ms. Kathleen O’Connell and Dr. H. Kenneth Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Neil O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. R. Joseph Parker Mr. Anthony Paternoster Mr. Phillip Potter Ms. Maria Ransdell Mr. Floyd Reed Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Reuter Ms. Mary Rich Mrs. Stephanie Richardson Dr. and Mrs. Donald K. Riker Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinson Dr. Alan Safdi Dr. Constance Sanders, Ph.D. Ms. Ellen Sewell Mr. Brett Siereveld Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Simon Ms. Carol E. Singer Mr. and Mrs. William Steenken Amy Stier and Jef Brown Mrs. Paul A. Succop Mr. and Mrs. Carlos R. Teran Dr. Monica Terhar Catharina Toltzis, Ph.D., and Robert Toltzis, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tomsick Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Torre Ms. Esperanza Tovar Mr. Timothy E. Troendle Anne M. Werner Mrs. Alice F. Weston Susan and Dean Windgassen Mr. Jan K. Wolf

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Mrs. Robert B. Adams Ms. Jane Anderson Janet Andress Dr. and Mrs. William Aronstein Ms. Patricia Baas Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bardes Mr. Ronald T. Bates Dr. Rolando Berger Mr. Thomas Berger Ms. Debbie Bogenschutz Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Bradshaw Diann Bridenbaugh, M.D. David E. Brinkmoeller Ms. Karen Bruin Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burnett Mr. Robert Burroughs Dr. and Mrs. Lanthan Camblin Ms. Patricia M. Carey Mr. Thomas Carothers John Castaldi and Terry Bazeley Mr. David Charpentier Ms. Melissa Cox Mr. Robert Didonato Ms. Mary Diersing Ms. Marsha Drucker Mrs. Melodie Dunn Mrs. Joseph S. Eggleston Mr. Frank E. Espohl Mr. Joseph H. Feldhaus Mr. Don L. Fernandez Mr. Ted Gentry and Ms. Amy Dougherty Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Givens Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Goetz Mr. and Mrs. Richard Graeter Don Gray Philip and Mattie Groshong

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CINCINNATI OPERA GUILD BOARD The Cincinnati Opera Guild is an organization of committed volunteers who are dedicated to supporting the Opera through volunteerism, social events, and a financial gift. This year, the Guild is celebrating 60 years of advocacy and ambassadorship promoting awareness, generating public interest in the company, and deepening understanding of the art form in our community. Members bring many forms of expertise to advance the organization, especially for our education and community engagement programs. Their support is essential to a vast array of ongoing activities and events, and they are among the Opera’s most enthusiastic ambassadors in Greater Cincinnati. We hope you will consider joining in the fun by becoming a Cincinnati Opera Guild Ambassador!

OFFICERS President Karlee Hilliard Incoming President Richard Zinicola Immediate Past President Virginia K. Cover*+ Secretary Julie Grady Heard (H)*+ Volunteer Engagement Chairs Sarajane King*+ Sandy Porada

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Social and Fundraising Chair Wendy TenEyck

Membership Chairs Julie Alamin+ Richard Zinicola

Education and Engagement Chairs Sooncha Lee Marilyn Z. Ott+ Robert von Gerds

Meetings Chairs Lois Brenner Beverly Oyler

Meet and Greet Chairs Ellen Saenger Nancy Virgulak Shelby O. Wood+

Newsletter Editor Janet McDaniel Member at Large Marilyn Z. Ott+

Honorary Chairs Suzanne Hasl (H)*+˚ Patrick Korb (H)*+˚

MEMBERS Julie Alamin+ Jennifer M. Allen* Anne Arenstein Paule Asch Barbara Bardes Helene Sullivan Bentley Mr. Alfred Berger, Jr.˚ Mary M. Bergstein (H) Lois Brenner+ Charles Bretz Cherylann Brinkman* Betsi Brockmeier Nicholas P. Ciafardini (H)+˚ Virginia K. Cover*+ James de Blasis˚ Joanna Doerner Jocelyn C. Dunphy (H)*+ Christopher E. Edwards (H)+ Marlesa A. Gray (H)* Barbara S. Hahn (H)+ Barbara Harshman+ Suzanne Hasl (H)*+˚ Julie Grady Heard (H)*+ Karlee Hilliard Emily M. Hodges

Edita Hoffman Ms. Linda Holthaus and Mr. Richard Zinicola Marlene Johnson+ Magdalena Kerschner Mel Hofmann Keumpel (H)*+ Sarajane King*+ Jennifer Kinnen (H) Bo-Kyung Kirby Patrick Korb (H)*+˚ Renu Kotwal Elizabeth Kuresman (H)*+ Bruce Lafferre Lorrie Laskey (H)* Richard Lauf (H)* Sooncha Lee Adele Lippert Joanie Lotts (H)+ Carolyn Ludwig Katja Lundgren Janet McDaniel Ruth McDevitt (H)*+ Mary Alice˚ and Sherwood W. McIntire˚ Eleanor C. Minkarah (H)*

Lawrence Mouch (H) Sue A. Mouch (H) Hengameh Nassef Christine Neyer+ Tom Osterman (H)*+ Marilyn Z. Ott+ Marchelle˚ and O’Dell M. Owens˚ Beverly Oyler Lilian Pagani˚ Isabelle Paul˚ Sandy Porada Daniel C. Rebhun (H)*+ Aileen B. Reinstatler (H)* Ed Requardt Gale Roberts Carol A. Rogers (H) Solveiga Rush+ Lois P. Rust Ellen Saenger Ruthann (H)*+˚ and G. James Sammarco˚ Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schmidt˚ Normal Schoenberger˚ Charles R. Schuler˚ Martha S. Seaman (H)*

Joseph B. Shirley˚ Richard Sininger Margaret Smith+ Nancy˚ and Jeffrey Stambough˚ Barbara˚ and Joseph Stegmaier˚ Kim Strubbe Janet˚ and Paul A. Stuhlreyer III˚ Wendy TenEyck Judy Thompson Janet Todd˚ Beverly Tonkens-VanGrov (H)+ Nydia C. Tranter+ Nancy Virgulak Robert von Gerds Jeannine Winkelmann (H)* Andrea Wiot Elizabeth Wohlgemuth˚ Shelby Wood+ Sylvia Yorke

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VOLUNTEER. ADVOCATE. CELEBRATE.

The Cincinnati Opera Guild is celebrating 60 years as Opera ambassadors in our community. Members enjoy monthly guest speakers, volunteer at events throughout the year, and host happy hours, parties, and fundraisers, all to support Cincinnati Opera. Join your fellow opera lovers for access to the casts and crew at Meet and Greets and many other events, as we support and promote Cincinnati Opera all year long!

Join the Cincinnati Opera Guild today!

Memberships begin at $100 For more information about the benefits of Guild membership, visit www.cincinnatiopera.org/opera-guild or call (513) 768-5565.

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CELEBRATIONS AND HONORARIUMS During the last year, many individuals have made contributions to Cincinnati Opera in honor or in celebration of friends and family members. Cincinnati Opera is grateful for these thoughtful gifts.

In honor of Anne Arenstein and Richard Sarason Ms. Ruth Alpers

In honor of Anthony Paternoster Thomas Martin and Barb Kruetzkamp

In honor of Ronald T. Bates Anonymous Mrs. Susanne Geier Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Kalnow Murray and Robin Sinclaire

In honor of Harry and Ann Santen’s 60th Wedding Anniversary Patricia K. and James D. Beggs

In honor of Omer Ben Seadia, to support Ariadne auf Naxos Dr. Richard S. Sarason and Anne S. Arenstein In honor of Hugh Braudt’s Birthday Mr. and Mrs. Don Gardner In honor of Ginny Cover Ms. Page Seck In honor of Jean Crawford Dr. Jack and Barbara Hahn

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In honor of Dr. Olga Duarte Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Heidt, Jr. In honor of Lissa Urriquia Gapultos Ms. Beth Benson In honor of Jeanna Horwitz’s Birthday Zell Schulman In honor of Karen Johnson Mrs. Maryanne E. McGowan In honor of Sandra Morris Levey Ms. Vickie Morris In honor of Chris Milligan Ms. Beth Benson Shannon and Lee Carter In honor of Ohio National’s Board Members and CEO Group Gary T. “Doc” and Milly Huffman In honor of Sawyer Pardo Mr. and Mrs. Alex Pardo

In honor of Zell Schulman’s 90th Birthday Mrs. Judy Lucas In honor of Doug and Laura Skidmore Ms. Martha Steier In honor of Amy Stier Ms. Beth Benson Virginia K. Cover In honor of Dr. and Mrs. John Tew, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Alpaugh Ms. Cynthia Bambauer Flávia Bastos, Ph.D., and Larry Huston Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Bigglesworth Family Foundation Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Boden Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cheng Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Connelly Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Cathy and Tom Crain Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford Mr. Daniel B. Cunningham and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mr. Thomas M. Dreeze and Mr. Evans J. Mirageas Ms. Dianne Dunkelman and Mr. Peter Schwartz Carole H. and Michael Edwards, M.D. Carrie and Peter Gockerman Liz Kathman Grubow and Jerry Kathman Dr. Jess Guarnaschelli Teddy Gumbleton

Contributions from May 15, 2018 to May 3, 2019

Dr. Jack and Barbara Hahn Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Mr. and Mrs. John Helbling Gary T. “Doc” and Milly Huffman Ms. Anne Ilyinsky Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Jaroszewicz Ms. Geraldine Koesters Mr. Peter E. Landgren and Mrs. Judith Schonbach Richard and Susan Lauf Dr. Margaret M. LeMasters Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lippert Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lukin Ms. Alice Maggini Mr. Michael A. Marrero and Dr. Candyse Jeffries, D.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan McCann Ms. Nancy McMahon Mrs. Jennifer S. Mottier Mr. and Mrs. Neil O’Connor Robert and Carol Olson Mr. Joe Peacock Mr. and Mrs. Dick Peterson Ms. Angela Powell Walker Mr. and Mrs. David Reichert Mr. Mercer Reynolds Dianne and J. David Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Richard Seal Murray and Robin Sinclaire Mary and Barry Smyth James Stapleton and Dr. Elizabeth Shaughnessy Mr. and Mrs. William Strubbe Sneja H. and Raffi Tomassian Mr. and Mrs. Jon H. Votel Mr. Richard A. Weiland Ms. Barbara M. Weyand Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis Jeannine Winkelmann and John Winkelmann, M.D. Kelly Wittich Ms. Sally S. Wood In honor of Ronna and Jim Willis Dr. and Mrs. John Cohen

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IN MEMORIAM During the last year, many individuals have made contributions to Cincinnati Opera in memory of friends and family members. Cincinnati Opera is grateful for these thoughtful gifts.

In memory of Frank Andress Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Alpaugh Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Mr. and Mrs. Darryl I. Blitzer Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Ms. Ruth K. Cole Ms. Carolyn Gaker Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Gottschalk Mr. and Mrs. Irving Harris Mr. and Mrs. James N. Shad Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Mr. Norman Trepner and Mrs. Susan Thomsen Patti and Mike Veroni In memory of John M. Battistone Carol Talbot In memory of Jane Bavaria Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Carol Berliant Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Virginia K. Cover 116

In memory of Clifford Braun Mr. Joseph Greco In memory of W. Scott Brinker Gay Bain Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barham III Mr. and Mrs. Larry J. Blum Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bondurant Mr. David E. Brevard Mr. and Mrs. A. Burton Closson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William O. Coleman, Jr. Mr. Pierce Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Lon Deckard Ms. Barbara Dixon Ms. Deborah Dixon Edward and J.W. James Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jamison III Mrs. Albina Klowak-Hake and Mr. Harry Hake III Glenna Knapp Mel and John Kuempel Mrs. John Lawrence, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. McLaughlin Mr. and Mrs. John M. Shepherd

In memory of Geraldine V. Chavez Lydia Chavez and Mark Rabine Manuel and Cynthia Chavez Manuel Chavez III and MacKenzie Chavez Martin and Kimberly Chavez Melanie M. Chavez and Jeremy S. Campbell Miguel Chavez Robert and Debra Chavez Stefanie K. Chavez Susana Chavez and Jim O’Callahan Jackson, Jefferson, and Natalie Chavez-Campbell Andrea Chavez-Dietz and John Dietz Salvador Chavez-Holzman Alegra Dauwalter Ms. Teresa Stojkov Judy and G. Adrian Thompson Jeannine Winkelmann and John Winkelmann, M.D.

In memory of Jane Killen Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Mr. and Mrs. Timothy S. Killen Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Krug Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch Ms. Willets Prosser Mr. and Mrs. David Richards Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Katie and Jeff Syroney Ellen and Ray van der Horst

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REMEMBRANCES As we pause to reflect on the loss of several important members of the Opera family, we invite you to join us in celebrating the many contributions of these extraordinary individuals.

Frank Andress

Joan Lee

Subscriber, arts patron, and board trustee since 1998.

He applied his business acumen to help shape our financial and investment policies to ensure years of fiscal stability. A gentleman of the first order, he was a member of the Society of Angels along with his wife Janet.

A devoted mother, grandmother, and community volunteer, she served on the Guild board beginning in 2017.

Opera Guild board member since 2016. Respected community-wide for her service and philanthropy, as well as her wit and welcoming nature.

Opera trustee since 2009, he and his late wife Marilyn amassed an extraordinary contemporary art collection and traveled the world seeing opera, including seven Ring Cycles. A highly respected attorney and lifelong classical music aficionado, he served on the Opera’s artistic planning committee.

James Bridgeland, Jr.

Dale Shafer

Brilliant attorney, teacher, and Renaissance man, he served on the Opera board from 1998 to 2008. He and his wife Peggy invested generously in the transformation of the company to a nationally recognized producer of grand masterworks and new, socially relevant operas.

Guild board member since 2000. A well-known figure in the interior design community for a halfcentury, he often lent his expertise to our designer showhouses, galas, and events going back to the 1980s. He also generously hosted artists in his home during opera season.

John Hopple

Donald Siekmann

Successful entrepreneur, accomplished athlete, and a natural leader, he served as Opera president from 1977 to 1979, and on the board from 1968 to 1989.

His company, Hopple Plastics, manufactured a stunning acrylic violin “played” by Dr. Miracle in our 1987 Tales of Hoffmann.

President of the Society for the Preservation of Music Hall from 2010 to 2015, he oversaw the restoration of the Mighty Wurlitzer and introduced the popular organ concert series in Music Hall. Bon vivant and respected executive, he and his wife Linda served on numerous arts boards and performed a bit of singing themselves.

Carol Berliant

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David Reichert

Mary Ellyn Hutton

Classical music writer for the Cincinnati Post, her blog Music in Cincinnati, and the Opera’s program, among others. A violist, she played with the Lexington Philharmonic and San Antonio Symphony before moving to Cincinnati with husband Dr. John Hutton in 1984.

Jane Killen

Arts supporter, friend-raiser, and beloved former Cincinnati Opera director of development from 1992 to 1996, she assisted with the Opera’s 75th anniversary festivities and recruited many new members to our Society of Angels.

John T. “Tad” Lawrence III

Second-generation Opera board trustee from 1996 to 2002, following his father, Jock. Brilliant musician and “the best and coolest gentleman around,” he was a successful business leader who lived a life of service to his community. A great sense of humor and adventure, impeccable manners, and the willingness to help were his trademarks. His son John continues his father’s legacy as a member of our Center Stage Board Associates.

Genevieve H. Smith

Longtime supporter of Cincinnati Opera and CCM, she broke boundaries in her professional life from WWII on, working in data analysis for the Army, Air Force, and the private sector. She helped develop the Federal Cost of Living Index. Her passions were exotic travel, singing in choirs, attending musical events, and volunteering.

Charles Parsons

Gertrude “Trudie” Seybold

Charles Parsons attended almost every Cincinnati Opera performance since 1955, often ushering at the Zoo and Music Hall.

He also reviewed performances for Opera News, among other publications. As the company’s unofficial historian, he wrote A Celebration of Cincinnati Opera, a book chronicling each season from 1920 to 2007. He continued to be our source for all things Cincinnati Opera until his death.

He was a member of the Society of Angels. Look for our podcast Inside Opera for a fascinating interview between Charles and Evans Mirageas recorded in 2017.

An honorary board trustee since 1992, she was a singer, teacher, restaurant proprietor, Society of Angels donor, and 40-year member of the Opera family. Charismatic, charming, and passionate about opera, she and her husband Kurt generously hosted many legendary cast parties at their restaurant, Forest View Gardens, and hosted an all-star roster of opera singers in their home. They fostered a generation of young singers both at the restaurant and through the establishment of the SeyboldRussell Scholarship Fund at the University of Cincinnati. Trudie is pictured here with one of her favorite singers, star tenor Richard Leech.

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CINCINNATI OPERA REPERTOIRE 1920–2019 John Adams Nixon in China–2007 A Flowering Tree–2011 Franco Alfano Resurrection–1983 Daniel François Espirit Auber Fra Diavolo–1927 Michael William Balfe The Bohemian Girl–1927, 1928, 1936 Béla Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle–2001 Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio–1931, 1932, 1980, 2016 Peter Bengtson The Maids–2004 Vincenzo Bellini Norma–1932, 1935, 1938, 1977, 1984, 2003 Il Pirata–1969 La Sonnambula–1960 120

Richard Danielpour Margaret Garner–2005

Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande–2000

Charles Gounod Faust–1921-23, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1935-51, 1953-58, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1999, 2007 Romeo and Juliet–1922, 1923, 1933, 1945, 1971, 1982, 1989, 1994, 2002, 2019

Léo Delibes Lakmé–1922, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1955

Aldolphus Hailstork Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story–2007

Gaetano Donizetti The Daughter of the Regiment (La Fille du Régiment)–1973, 2004 Don Pasquale–1920, 1921, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1968, 1981, 1996, 2015 The Elixir of Love (L’Elisir d’Amore)–1924, 1926, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1983 Lucia di Lammermoor–1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1937, 1939-43, 1952-54, 1957, 1958, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1985, 1990, 1997, 2008 Roberto Devereux–1974

Fromental Halévy La Juive–1927, 1928

Henry Louis Reginald de Koven Robin Hood–1929

Georges Bizet Carmen–1921-24, 1926-33, 193560, 1962-1971, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1997, 2004, 2009, 2014

Friedrich von Flotow Martha–1920, 1924, 1926, 192830, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1943-45, 1947, 1948, 1955, 1956

Arrigo Boito Mefistofele–1922, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1939, 1972

Carlisle Floyd Of Mice and Men–1971 Susannah–1959, 1964, 1979, 1988

William Bolcom Medusa–2003

Charles Rudolph Friml The Firefly–1930, 1931

Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes–1960 The Turn of the Screw–1999

George Gershwin Porgy and Bess–2012, 2019

Daniel Catán Florencia en el Amazonas–2008 Francesco Cavalli La Calisto–2014 Francesco Cilèa Adriana Lecouvreur–1979 Emmanuel Chabrier L’Étoile–2006

Jake Heggie Dead Man Walking–2002 Victor Herbert Naughty Marietta–1929 Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel–1920, 1921, 1923, 1927, 1938, 1939, 1942-44, 1973 Leos Janácek Jenufa–1998 Sidney Jones The Geisha–1932 Laura Kaminsky As One–2018 Jerome Kern Roberta–1985 Show Boat–1976 Franz Lehár The Merry Widow–1951-53, 1975, 1982

Umberto Giordano Andrea Chénier–1929, 1930, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1995 Fedora–1923

Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci–1920, 1927, 1933-39, 1941-46, 1950, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1993, 2012 Zazà–1985, 1987

Philip Glass Galileo Galilei–2013

Frank Leoni L’Oracolo–1928, 1931

Osvaldo Golijov Ainadamar–2009

Frank Loesser The Most Happy Fella–1977

Ricky Ian Gordon Morning Star–2015

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Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana–1921, 1922, 1926, 1928, 1933-37, 1941, 194446, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1993 Iris–1930, 1931 Jules Massenet Manon–1922, 1924, 1939-42, 1952, 1955, 1961, 1965, 1968, 1980 La Navarraise–1931 Thaïs–1933, 1938 Werther–1993

Robert Xavier Rodríguez Frida–2017

Ástor Piazzolla María de Buenos Aires–2012

Gioachino Rossini The Barber of Seville–1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1937-45, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1977, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2005 La Cenerentola–1966, 2000

Robert Planquette The Chimes of Normandy (Les Cloches de Corneville)–1930

Missy Mazzoli Song from the Uproar–2017

Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda–1923, 1924, 1928, 1935, 1936, 1942

Gian Carlo Menotti The Medium–1967

Francis Poulenc La Voix Humaine–2003

Giacomo Meyerbeer L’Africaine–1936 Dinorah–1929, 1930

Giacomo Puccini La Bohème–1924, 1932, 1936-63, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2010, 2017 Gianni Schicchi–1975, 1982, 2012 Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West)–1933, 1938, 1986 Madame Butterfly–1924, 192833, 1936-41, 1946-60, 1962-64, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2008, 2014 Manon Lescaut–1959, 1964, 1974, 1983, 1991 La Rondine–1973, 1984 Suor Angelica–1975, 1982 Il Tabarro–1975, 1982 Tosca–1923, 1927, 1931, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1943-45, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2016 Turandot–1955, 1956, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1987, 1995, 2003, 2015

Italo Montemezzi The Love of Three Kings (L’Amore dei Tre Re)–1926, 1929, 1946, 1947, 1949 122

Jacques Offenbach La Périchole–1974 The Tales of Hoffmann–1921, 1923, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1992, 2006

Claudio Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea (L’Incoronazione di Poppea)–2018 Douglas Moore The Ballad of Baby Doe–1976 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)–1992 Così Fan Tutte–1963, 1966, 1976, 1983, 1989, 2007 Don Giovanni–1930, 1931, 1936, 1949, 1951, 1961, 1977, 1990, 1999, 2004, 2013 The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)–1932, 1986, 1993, 2001, 2011, 2017 The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro)–1956, 1957, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2009, 2019 Modest Mussorgsky Boris Godunov–1948, 1958, 1974

Kevin Puts Silent Night–2014 Scott Davenport Richards Blind Injustice–2019 Richard Rodgers Carousel–1983 Oklahoma–1984 The Sound of Music–1982 South Pacific–1981

Sigmund Romberg The Student Prince–1978

Camille Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah–1922, 1923, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1940-47, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1964, 1970, 1998 Arnold Schoenberg Erwartung–2001 Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride–1931, 1954 Gregory Spears Fellow Travelers–2016 Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus–1928, 1950, 1951, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1980, 2016 The Gypsy Baron (Der Zigeunerbaron)–1932 Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos–1961, 2019 Elektra–2002 Der Rosenkavalier–1948, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1967, 1986, 1994, 2013 Salome–1948, 1949, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1968, 1982, 2000 Arthur Sullivan The Gondoliers–1985 H.M.S. Pinafore–1932, 1933, 1981 The Mikado–1928, 1979 The Pirates of Penzance–1933, 1980 Trial by Jury–1933 Joseph Surdo Enter Pauline–1929 Deems Taylor The King’s Henchmen–1936

Piotr IIyich Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin–1984, 2011

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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas Mignon–1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941-43, 1945, 1946 Viktor Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis–2004 Isaac Van Grove The Music Robber–1926, 1927 Giuseppe Verdi Aida–1921-24, 1926, 1927, 192933, 1935-1956, 1959-62, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2007, 2013 Attila–1979, 1984 Don Carlo–1961, 1984, 1989, 2009 Falstaff–1926, 1930, 1997 La Forza del Destino–1932, 1965, 1969 Macbeth–1960, 1961, 1978 A Masked Ball (Un Ballo in Maschera)–1931, 1939, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1974, 1991, 2006

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and New Jerusalem Baptist Church: Southern Baptist Church Choir, Rev. Dan Larkin, Jr., Ministry Assistant & Minister of Music, director; Reverend Robert E. Baines, Jr., Senior Pastor; Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church Choir, Rev. David Minor, Director of Worship Arts & Media, director; Dr. Elliott Cuff, Senior Pastor; Rev. Alphonza Jones; Ed “Sax” Thomas and the Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church Band; New Jerusalem Baptist Church Choir, A. Michael Cunningham, Minister of Music & Arts, director; Reverend Damon Lynch, Jr., Senior Pastor; Indra Thomas, soprano; Luther Lewis, tenor; Adanya Lin Stephens & Quiet Sounds of Qualia; Carol Walker, pianist Allen Temple A.M.E. Church: The Allen Temple A.M.E. Church Combined Choirs, Rev. Marcellene Winfrey, Minister of Worship & Liturgy, director; Reverend Alphonse Allen, Senior Pastor; Victoria Ellington, soprano; Joseph Parrish, baritone; Morris Robinson, bass and guest musician; The Mike Wade Quartet; Stephen Variames, pianist Production Partners & In-Kind: AJG Risk Management; Cincinnati Arts Association; Cincinnati Ballet; Cincinnati Music Hall; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati; Cincinnati Stage Employees Local 5 IATSE; Cincinnati Wardrobe Union Local 864 IATSE; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden; Hands-On Rigging; Hase & Associates, Ltd.; Paul H. Lippe, Inc.; Pebble Creek Group; School for Creative and Performing Arts; SEKO Logistics CVG; University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Production Departments Program Book: Produced by Cincinnati Magazine: Publisher Ivy Bayer; Director of Editorial Operations Amanda Boyd Walters; Senior Art Director Emi Villavicencio. Opera Editorial Assistance

by Matthew Jent.

Special Event Hosts: Vicki and Peter Alpaugh; Art Design Consultants/Litsa Spanos; Flávia Bastos, Ph.D., and Larry Huston; Chris and Vivienne Carlson; Melanie M. Chavez and Jeremy S. Campbell; Ginny Cover; Cathy and Tom Crain; Thomas Dreeze and Evans Mirageas; French Country Road; Graydon; Liz Kathman Grubow

and Jerry Kathman; Theresa Henderson; Renu Kotwal, M.D., and Rajbir Minhas, M.D.; Sherie Marek; The Richter & Phillips Co.; Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco; Anne and Allen Zaring III Special thanks to our in-kind donors: All those who generously donated items for the 2018 Online Auction.

Strategic Partners: ROKCincy; Young Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC) Cincinnati Opera extends special thanks to the staff and faculty at the School for Creative and Performing Arts: Brad Gerard; Gina Kleesattel; Kathy Magistrelli; Jeff New; Nick Nissley; Michael Owens; Angela Powell Walker; George Smith; Theresa Summe-Haas Underwriters of the School for Creative and Performing Arts Professional Trainee Program: 125

Cincinnati Opera is a proud member of: ArtsWave; Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau; Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber; Downtown Cincinnati, Inc.; First World War Centenary Partnership, Imperial War Museum, London; Greater Cincinnati Alliance for Arts Education; Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce; Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati USA; Ohio Alliance for Arts Education; Ohio Citizens for the Arts; OPERA America; Opera Volunteers International; Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce; Society for the Preservation of Music Hall

CINCINNATI OPERA STAFF

Patricia K. Beggs The Harry Fath General Director & CEO Christopher Milligan Managing Director & CMO Administration & Finance Michael J. Veroni Chief Financial Officer Julie Grady Heard Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Matt Singleton Director of Technology Sandra Levey Human Resources Manager Jack Morton Controller

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Kelly Holterhoff Executive Assistant; Director, ROKCincy Scotty McEvoy Accountant Karli Farrell Administrative Intern Development Sneja H. Tomassian Chief Advancement Officer

Education & Community Relations Ebony Menefield Director of Education & Engagement Tracy L. Wilson Director of Community Relations Jemannie Severson Luong Education & Community Relations Associate Marketing & Public Relations Lori L. Hiltenbeitel Director of Ticketing Ashley Tongret Director of Public Relations Amy Hildebrand Marketing Manager Huangyu (Kelly) Ju Data Analyst Aimee Sposito Martini Senior Graphic Designer & Illustrator Scott Youger Ticketing System Manager

Artistic Evans Mirageas The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director

Kate Brockmeier Production Operations Manager

Morris Robinson Artistic Advisor

Sarah Clark Crowell Production Administrator

Jane Hulburt Artistic Administrator

Thomas C. Hase Lighting Director

Marjoram Jonathan E. Lynn Artistic Coordinator

Bailey Costa Associate Lighting Director

Alyssa Mehnert Music Coordinator

Joe Beumer Lighting Associate

Peggy Monastra New Works Consultant

Rebecca Senske Costume Manager

Henri Venanzi Chorus Master

Chad Phillips Assistant Costume Manager

Carol Walker Principal Coach Levi Hammer Resident Conductor Seann Alderking Levi Hammer Elena Kholodova Marie-France Lefebvre Jesse Leong Valerie Pool Pianists

James Geier Wig & Make-up Designer Amy Whitaker Oran Wongpandid Wig & Make-up Artists Megan Bennett Constance Dubinski Grubbs Hannah Holthaus Production Stage Managers

Steph Flout Marketing Intern

Andreas Hager David Radames Toro Assistant Directors

Joe Peacock Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Emma Steward Public Relations Intern

Sam Kerns Alison Pogorelc Directing Interns

Lissa Urriquia Gapultos Director of Corporate & Foundation Giving

Philip J. Groshong Company Photographer

Laura Sabo Super Captain

Skye Cone Hayley Hunt Rachel Merryman Jennifer Picone Brooke Redler Jennifer Shaw Assistant Stage Managers

Teddy Gumbleton Individual Giving Manager

Valerie Pool Supertitles Coordinator

Gina Cerimele-Mechley Intimacy Director

Ai Li Brown Supertitles Assistant

Ruth Wartman Scenic & Prop Charge Artist

Ricky Williams, Jr. Development Associate

Chance Dunaway Timothy Fox Seika Fukumoto Caine Grimes Jennelle John-Lewis Zach Quortrup Jennifer Radisch Customer Service Representatives

Naomi Robinson Development Intern

Mike Snyder Audio Description

Madalyn Mills Events Manager

Duncan Holzhall Artistic Intern Production Glenn Plott Director of Production

Stephen L. Childress Thomas Condon Scenic Artists

E.J. Mechley Production Electrician

Olivia Darling Maggie Hoffecker Quinn Morgan Stage Management Interns

Leah Gray Kevin Hirsch Julian Hooper Emily Muench Eva Schramm Amir Shackelford Ryley Ward Professional Trainees

Evan Carlson Rose W. Cobey Lighting Interns

Technical Gary Kidney Technical Director

Cedric Collier Head Sound Technician

Anna Randazzo Rehearsal Department Intern

Robert Lay Master Carpenter

Sam Petersen Technical Assistant

Payton Epperson Scenic Artist Intern

Jon Chevalier Construction Carpenter

Benjamin Beardon Properties Intern

David Hall Brad Kidney Carpenter Second Hands

Jordain Addis Malik Burks Marisa Canada Katherine Cassady

Kevin Eviston Flyman

Kevin Barth Master of Properties Tim Fowler Property Second Hand

Liz Vourlas Title Operator Cherl Beyersdoerfer Costumer

House Staff Gary Kidney Technical Director E.J. Mechley Master Electrician Paul Stafford Master Carpenter Kenny Johnson Production Technician Dennis Fury Event Manager Molly McGraw House Manager

Pat Hanlon Assistant Costumer Jackie Andrews Megan McGilvery Noelle Wedig Wardrobe Technicians

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Please Note...

• Latecomers will be admitted to the auditorium at the discretion of management.

• Please do not place coats or other objects on the balcony railings.

• Please turn off all mobile devices and signal watches during performances.

• Please refrain from talking or using a mobile phone during performances.

• Music Hall and SCPA are smoke-free buildings.

• Eating and drinking are strictly forbidden inside the auditorium with the exception of bottled water.

an elevator is located near the east entrance to the Corbett Theater.

Restrooms All restrooms in Music Hall are accessible to people with disabilities and are located on all levels.

ATM An ATM is available in the Western & Southern Lobby, near the Music Hall box office in the South Hall.

Taxi Service Taxi service may be requested by speaking with Music Hall event personnel at Guest Services, in the north end of the lobby.

Broadcasts Cincinnati Opera’s 2019 season will be aired on WGUC 90.9 FM. Contributions Gifts of all sizes are welcome and

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• Due to the adult subject matter and in consideration for all patrons, we require that children be at least 7 years of age to be admitted to mainstage productions. Visit our website for information on Education & Engagement programming for all ages.

important to the Opera. To make a donation or to inquire about donor benefits, honor or memorial gifts, or acknowledgments, please contact Teddy Gumbleton, Individual Giving Manager, at (513) 768-5520 or tgumbleton@cincinnatiopera.org.

Merchandise Visit the Bravo Shop! To purchase

Opera Insights A free overview of each opera is pre-

sented one hour prior to curtain, in Corbett Tower for Music Hall performances and in the Mayerson Theater for SCPA performances.

Meet the Artists Patrons may meet performers out-

side the stage door on Central Parkway.

Assistive Listening System An infra-red wireless receiver for the hearing impaired is available upon request from event personnel for Springer Auditorium performances.

Audio Description Live descriptions of stage action

for the visually impaired are presented by trained describers for Springer Auditorium performances.

Please inquire with event personnel.

Wheelchair access and assistance with other mobility issues are available.

Please request locations or assistance when ordering tickets, and please reserve early.

Accessible Seating

Elevators Opera is accessible! Elevators in Music

Hall are located near the Music Hall box office in the South Hall, and in the North Hall. At SCPA,

merchandise, contact Kelly Holterhoff at (513) 768-5511 or kholterhoff@cincinnatiopera.org.

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necessarily endorse the views, products, or services presented by program advertisers. For information about advertising in the program book, contact Ashley Tongret at (513) 768-5526 or atongret@ cincinnatiopera.org.

Box Office Hours Monday through Friday 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays on which there are performances from 12 noon through the first intermission.

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