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The 2014 Program Synopses and Notes Carmen ................................... 12 Silent Night ............................. 18 La Calisto ................................

24 Madame Butterfly ..................... 30 Board of Trustees ......................... 8 Celebrations and Honorariums .... 85 Cincinnati Opera Guild ............... 80 Community Programs .................. 70 Donors ....................................... 52 General Information .................. 112 Orchestra and Chorus ................. 50 Remembrances ........................... 88 Season Artists ............................. 43 Society of Angels ........................ 90

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From the General Director and Artistic Director Welcome to Cincinnati Opera’s 2014 season, our 94th summer of grand opera.

Whether you’ve attended before or this is your first time, you’ve selected a perfect season to experience the versatility and vibrancy of this art form. Opera is more alive and exhilarating than ever, as evidenced by these four extraordinary productions.

Patricia K. Beggs

Evans Mirageas

We begin with an electrifying, new-to-Cincinnati production of the all-time favorite, Carmen. This story of an obsessive love gone wrong features riveting drama set against some of opera’s most popular music. Our outstanding cast is led by mezzo-soprano Stacey Rishoi, who makes her debut as Bizet’s doomed heroine.

Next, we join the international commemoration of the centenary of World War I with the new opera, Silent Night. Based on an inspiring true story, Silent Night tells of the unlikely Christmas Eve truce among enemy soldiers on Europe’s Western Front. Premiered to enthusiastic response by The Minnesota Opera in 2011, Silent Night went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music and has since been produced at opera houses across the country. We are proud to host the first production in the region of this thrilling new work.

Last summer marked the launch of Cincinnati Opera’s second venue, the intimate Corbett Theater at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. We’re delighted to return to SCPA this season with another first: our first Baroque opera, Francesco Cavalli’s comedy La Calisto, in a clever new production.

The season closes with the welcome return of Puccini’s achingly beautiful Madame Butterfly. The story of devotion, deceit, and sacrifice has captivated audiences for more than a century, and is as poignant today as it was at its premiere.

We are grateful for the passionate support of our trustees and president Murray Sinclaire, Jr.; the Opera Guild, led by Eleanor Minkarah; our generous donors and community partners; and you, the audience.

Thank you for playing a role in opera’s vibrant future. Enjoy the show!

Patricia K. Beggs General Director & CEO

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Greetings from the Board President On behalf of the entire Opera family and its Board of Trustees, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Cincinnati Opera’s 2014 Summer Festival.

This season marks our 43rd in Music Hall, and the tradition of summer opera in Cincinnati continues stronger than Murray Sinclaire, Jr. ever before. Thanks to the support and encouragement of the community, we have expanded our festival offerings again this year. In addition to the performances in Music Hall and the Corbett Theater at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, our season includes a concert in Washington Park, an expansion of our signature (and free) community programs Opera Goes to Church and Back to the Zoo, and two special performances at First Lutheran Church in Over-the-Rhine. Next year, we look forward to further new endeavors with the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s new opera Morning Star.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the effort and commitment of our patrons, Board of Trustees, Center Stage Board Associates, Guild, and staff, led by Patty Beggs and Evans Mirageas. To those who have supported us through the years and to everyone who has made the 2014 season possible, please accept our sincere appreciation and thanks.

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Frank J. Andress Ron Bates Edward C. Bavaria Robert W. Boden Christopher J. Canarie Arthur B. Casper Richard O. Coleman Evan Corbett Peter George Courlas

Terry Crilley Daniel B. Cunningham Vivian A. Dobur Yvonne L. Edmonds-West Harry Fath Morton L. Harshman, M.D. Suzanne Hasl Donald E. Hoffman Barbara Hummel, M.Ed.

Tina Jackson Mary J. López Eric D. Louden Jenny Magro Donald S. Mendelsohn Joseph A. Pichler Denise Revely Melody Sawyer Richardson

Susan Robinson Nancy Rosenthal Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. G. James Sammarco, M.D. Marcella G. Trice Pauline Van der Haer Ray van der Horst Irwin Weinberg

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Ex-Officio Members

Center Stage Board Associates

Honorary Members

Boris Auerbach G. Gibson Carey Cathy Crain Harry Fath Kingston Fletcher Donald E. Hoffman John S. Hopple Lawrence H. Kyte Robert W. Olson Harry H. Santen Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Ellen G. van der Horst

Patricia K. Beggs The Honorable John Cranley Emilie Johnson Dean Peter Landgren Eleanor C. Minkarah Ellen G. van der Horst Nancy Walker

Asif Alikhan Aine Baldwin Shannon M. Glass, Chair Stephen Hightower II Lindsay Holt Janice Liebenberg Ashley Burnside Maguire Rob P. Mecklenborg, Jr. Peter O’Shea Keely Paul David Sanders Megan Selnick Tina M. Varghese

Patrick Korb Sue Alexander Mouch Zell Schulman Trudie Seybold Paul A. “Gus” Stuhlreyer III Joyce VanWye

President Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Co-Chairmen Cathy Crain Robert W. Olson Treasurer Timothy Kimmel Secretary Alva Jean Crawford

Ex-Officio Patricia K. Beggs, General Director & CEO Eleanor C. Minkarah, Opera Guild President Donald E. Hoffman, Advisory Shannon M. Glass, Chair, Center Stage Board Associates

Regular Members Vicki Alpaugh Boris Auerbach Christopher Baucom Elaine Billmire, M.D. Dorothy Anne Blatt Thomas F. Boat, M.D. Mary Ann Boorn Charlin Briggs Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Mark J. Busher Melanie M. Chavez Michael L. Cioffi Sheila Cole Anthony Condia Cathy Crain Alva Jean Crawford Eric Dauer Benjamin G. Dusing John G. Earls James T. Fitzgerald Frederick R. Good Advisory Members

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Carmen Music by Georges Bizet Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HalĂŠvy June 12, 14, 20, and 22, 2014, at Cincinnati Music Hall

Conductor

Marc Piollet* stage director

Alain Gauthier Scenic designer

Allen Charles Klein Costume designer

Dean Brown

Lighting Designer

Thomas C. Hase

Hair & Make-up Designer

James D. Geier Chorus Master

Henri Venanzi

CHOREOGRAPHER

Jeff Rebudal

Fight Director

Drew Fracher

Children’s Chorus Director

Christopher Eanes

production stage manager

Megan Bennett

* Cincinnati Opera debut

Scenery from The Atlanta Opera; originally produced by Florida Grand Opera.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes.

There will be 3 intermissions.

ACT I In a town square in Seville, Moralès and some soldiers pass the time by commenting on the townspeople. Micaela appears, seeking José. The soldiers try to persuade her to stay until his return, but she declines and leaves. José arrives with the changing of the guard. A bell strikes the work hour, and the girls of the cigarette factory make their way through the crowd, making eyes at the men. Among them is Carmen, who seduces them all—except José. Carmen throws a flower at him and all the girls enter the factory.

Micaela returns with a letter from José’s mother. Suddenly, sounds of a fight erupt from the factory.

Women spill into the square, and Carmen is accused of wounding her co-worker with a knife. José ties her hands while his commander, Zuniga, leaves to prepare the prison warrant. Once they are alone, Carmen appeals to José to help her escape. He relents, and she flees, resulting in his arrest.

Intermission

ACT II ­At Lillas Pastia’s tavern, Carmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercédès entertain Zuniga and other officers. The bullfighter Escamillo arrives, boasts of his victories, and sets his sights on Carmen before leaving. Remendado and Dancairo enter, asking Carmen, Frasquita, and Mercédès to help them smuggle contraband. Carmen refuses, saying that she is waiting for José, her new lover.

José arrives and Carmen dances for him. When a bugle call orders José to return to the barracks, she mocks him and demands that he prove his love by leaving with her; José refuses. Zuniga bursts in, and the two men brawl. Having attacked a superior officer, José now has no choice but to join Carmen and the smugglers.

Intermission

ACT III ­In the mountains around Seville, the smugglers are on their way to the border with their stolen goods. There is tension between Carmen and José. She leaves him and joins the women, who are using cards to tell their fortunes. For Carmen, the cards foresee only death.

José is left behind to guard the camp. Micaela arrives searching for him, but she hides when he fires his gun at an intruder. It is Escamillo, searching for Carmen. José is furious with jealousy, and they fight.

The smugglers separate them, and Escamillo invites everyone—especially Carmen—to his next bullfight.

Micaela is discovered and reveals to José that his mother is dying, begging him to return home. Carmen urges him to go. José decides to leave, but he warns Carmen that they will meet again.

Intermission

ACT IV Outside the bullring in Seville, the crowd cheers the bullfighters on their way to the arena.

Carmen accompanies Escamillo. As he goes into the arena, Frasquita and Mercédès warn Carmen that José is nearby, but Carmen is unafraid and willing to speak to him. José appears and begs Carmen to start a new life with him, but she refuses: she was born free and free she will die. She casts aside a ring that José had given her. He stabs her as the crowd cheers Escamillo’s victory.

—Adapted from a synopsis provided by OPERA America

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THE CAST in order of vocal appearance

Carmen Moralès, a corporal

Joseph Lattanzi*+ Micaela, a peasant girl

Laquita Mitchell

Don josé, a corporal

William Burden

Zuniga, his commanding officer

Nathan Stark

Carmen, a Gypsy

Stacey Rishoi

Frasquita, friend of Carmen

Alexandra Schoeny

Mercédès, friend of Carmen

Elizabeth Pojanowski

El Remendado, a smuggler

Aaron Blake

El Dancairo, a smuggler

Sumner Thompson* Escamillo, a matador

Daniel Okulitch

* Cincinnati Opera debut

+ Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

Sung in the original French World premiere: March 3, 1875, at the Opéra Comique in Paris, France Cincinnati Opera premiere: June 26, 1921, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion 171st, 172nd, 173rd, and 174th company performances of Carmen

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Opera’s Spanish Seductress

by Andrea Ridilla

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Célestine Galli-Marié was the French mezzo-soprano who created the role of Carmen. This portrait by Henri Lucien Doucet (1856-95) shows Galli-Marié in her snappy final-act costume for the opera. Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.

hat is the mystical power that draws the public into a passionate connection with opera? The combination of tradition and innovation grounds us as emotions transport the spirit to a new reality, if only for a few hours. How many women would not secretly love to possess the magic of Carmen, who casts her spell on every man she sees? Likewise, what man does not fantasize about the allure of bewitching female charms preying on his will? Reality intersects with fantasy in the ever-present fate motif, reminding us that romance can be dangerous, in threes. Carmen’s sultry habanera, “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle,” with its refrain of “If I love you, watch out!” sets the tone for a woman who gets exactly what she wants.

The scene: 1820s in Andalusia, the southern part of the Iberian peninsula, replete with exotic Muslim, Romani, Byzantine, and Gothic influences and a strong cultural identity of bullfights, artisans, flamenco music, and Moorish architecture. Through this culture emerges one of 19th-century Europe’s greatest cultural icons—Parisian Georges Bizet’s beloved Carmen.

Bizet drew his inspiration for his Carmen from Part III of the novella Carmen (1845) by the Parisian author Prosper Mérimée. This novella explores marginalized Spanish ethnic groups, namely Gypsies and Basques, a trendy subject during the 19th-century European Exoticism movement that incorporated ...continued on page 96 2014 Summer Festival | 17

Production Underwriter The Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation Production Sponsors The Alpaugh Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts The Thomas J. Emery Memorial Performance Sponsors The John C. Griswold Foundation, in memory of John Griswold’s WWI service Susan and Joe Pichler Ann and Harry Santen, in support of contemporary opera in Cincinnati

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Season Presenting Sponsor PNC

Silent Night Music by Kevin Puts Libretto by Mark Campbell July 10 and 12, 2014, at Cincinnati Music Hall

Conductor

David Charles Abell Stage Director

Eric Simonson* Scenic Designer

Francis O’Connor* Costume Designer

Kärin Kopischke*

Lighting Designer

Marcus Dilliard*

Projection Designer

Andrzej Goulding*

Hair & Make-up Designer

James D. Geier Chorus Master

Henri Venanzi Fight Director

Gina Cerimele-Mechley Original Sound Design

C. Andrew Mayer

Original Fight Choreography

Doug Scholz-Carlson

production stage manager

Whitney McAnally

* Cincinnati Opera debut

Scenery and costumes for this production were constructed at The Minnesota Opera Shops and are jointly owned by The Minnesota Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and Fort Worth Opera.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes.

There will be 1 intermission.

Prologue Late summer, 1914. War is declared. In Berlin, the announcement disrupts a performance by opera singers Anna Sørensen and Nikolaus Sprink. In a Scottish church, William convinces his younger brother Jonathan to enlist with him. In the Paris apartment of the Audeberts, Madeleine excoriates her husband for leaving while she is pregnant with their first child.

ACT I A battlefield near the French border, just before Christmas. A battle is fought between the German, French, and Scottish troops. William is shot, and Jonathan must leave him to die. Back at the Scottish bunker, Father Palmer offers Jonathan solace. In the French bunker, Lt. Audebert finds the French General in his office, who reprimands him. Audebert laments the loss of his wife’s photograph.

He sings of needing sleep, soon echoed by the other soldiers. In the German bunker, Nikolaus reveals his despair.

Later, gifts arrive for the German soldiers, courtesy of the Kronprinz. Horstmayer receives word that Nikolaus has been ordered to sing with Anna at the Kronprinz’s nearby chalet. Ponchel brings coffee to Audebert, which reminds Ponchel of having coffee every morning with his mother; the alarm clock he carries rings each day to mark the ritual. Jonathan writes to his mother, not mentioning his brother’s death. Anna and Nikolaus perform for the Kronprinz. Anna has arranged for Nikolaus to spend the night with her, but he insists on returning to the battlefield. She vows to accompany him.

The French soldier Gueusselin volunteers to infiltrate the German bunker and heads into no man’s land. The Scottish soldiers drink whiskey and play the bagpipes, and Father Palmer sings a sentimental ballad, which the other soldiers overhear. Nikolaus returns, and the soldiers are stunned to see Anna.

When the Scottish song ends, Nikolaus responds with a Christmas song, and a bagpiper joins in.

Nikolaus ascends the bunker and slowly moves to the center of no man’s land. Gueusselin abandons his plan. The three lieutenants, each waving a white flag, agree to a cease-fire...but only for Christmas Eve. The soldiers cautiously move toward each other, eventually sharing provisions and trading names.

Anna appears, inspiring awe among the men. Father Palmer celebrates mass, while Jonathan finds his brother’s body, vowing revenge. Father Palmer urges them to “go in peace.”

Intermission

ACT II The next morning, Jonathan tries to bury his brother. Because the truce is officially over, two German sentries are prepared to shoot him, but Father Palmer and Gordon intervene. Horstmayer proposes that they bury the dead, and the three lieutenants decide to extend the truce. Father Palmer delivers last rites to the dead, and the soldiers form a processional bearing the wagon of bodies away.

Anna promises Nikolaus that he will not suffer the same fate. News of the cease-fire has reached headquarters, and the British Major, the Kronprinz, and the French General all react in anger.

Horstmayer prepares to return to war, and Nikolaus berates him for his allegiance to the Fatherland.

Horstmayer arrests Nikolaus for insubordination, but Anna takes his hand and leads him across no man’s land to the French bunker, where he demands asylum.

The British Major admonishes the Scottish soldiers for participating in the truce. They are to be transferred to the front lines. When a German soldier is seen crossing the battlefield, the Major orders him killed, and Jonathan complies. Audebert returns to his office and discovers the French General, who delivers word of his punishment. Audebert informs the General—his father—that he has a son. The Kronprinz banishes the German soldiers to Pomerania. As the soldiers are taken away, they hum the Scottish ballad from Christmas Eve. Over a now-empty battlefield, snow begins to fall.

-Courtesy of Opera Philadelphia, adapted by Cincinnati Opera

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THE CAST in order of vocal appearance

Silent Night Anna Sørensen, an opera singer and Nikolaus Sprink’s lover

Erin Wall*

Nikolaus Sprink, an opera singer and German soldier

Thomas Blondelle* German General

Marcus Küchle*

Father Palmer, a Scottish priest

Hugh Russell*

Jonathan Dale, a Scottish soldier

Thomas Glenn

Madeleine Audebert, wife of Lt. Audebert

Adria Caffaro*+

Lieutenant Audebert, a French officer

Phillip Addis*

William Dale, brother of Jonathan Dale

Tyler Alessi

Lieutenant Gordon, a Scottish officer

Gabriel Preisser* French General

Kenneth Shaw

Ponchel, aide-de-camp of Lieutenant Audebert

Andrew Wilkowske

Lieutenant Horstmayer, a German officer

Craig Irvin*

Kronprinz, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Thomas Cooley*

Gueusselin, a French soldier

Joseph Lattanzi+ British Major

Thomas Dreeze

* Cincinnati Opera debut

+ Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

Sung in the original English, French, German, and Italian World premiere: November 12, 2011, at the Ordway Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota A Cincinnati Opera premiere

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Cincinnati Remembers

A citywide series of community events

WWI Silent Night. Photo courtesy of Opera Philadelphia/Dominic M. Mercier.

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incinnati Opera’s production of Silent Night is presented near the 100th anniversary of the onset of World War I. To commemorate that conflict, which reshaped world politics and ushered in the modern era, Cincinnati Opera is collaborating with Cincinnati’s leading arts, cultural, and educational organizations to present Cincinnati Remembers World War I, a series of programs focused on the World War I era. The series began on Veterans Day 2013 and continues through July 2014.

Cincinnati Opera offers its sincere thanks to those who participated in and supported Cincinnati Remembers World War I. Cincinnati Remembers WWI Panel

Alva Jean Crawford • Eric Dauer • Dr. Michael J. Edwards • Joyce Elkus • Elizabeth B. Frierson, Ph.D. • Shiela Holmes-Stauss Dr. Charles Kuntz IV • Richard Lauf, Ph.D. • Dr. G. James Sammarco • Dr. Edward B. Silberstein • Dr. John M. Tew, Jr.

Cincinnati Remembers WWI Community Partners

3CDC AFTA (Armed Forces Tickets Association) Cantus Vocal Ensemble Catacoustic Consort Christ Church Cathedral Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Boychoir Cincinnati Historical Society Cincinnati Museum Center Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concert:nova Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati German-American Citizens League

Kenwood Theatre MamLuft&Co. Dance National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Spring Grove Cemetery Taft Museum of Art Theater Latté Da U.S. Air Force Airmen of Note University of Cincinnati Department of History University of Cincinnati Department of Surgery University of Cincinnati Institute for Military Medicine Xavier University Choir Xavier University Orchestra

Cincinnati Remembers WWI Supporters

Compton Allyn • Merrilee Atkins • Judy and Robert Beiring* • Harold Beyers* • Patricia M. Carey, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Stephan Casurella* • The Greater Cincinnati Foundation • Michael L. Cioffi and Rachael A. Rowe The Ensign Harry James Coombe Fund of Christ Church Cathedral, The Very Reverend Gail Greenwell, Dean Judith Dahl* • Joyce Elkus • FRCH Design Worldwide • Mary and Philip Hagner • Jane and Carl Harbour II The Reverend Canon and Mrs. George Hill • HORAN • Anne and Ted Jaroszewicz The Estate of Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan • Lisa Koepke* • Lisa and Steven Lemen • Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Ray III* Susan and Nick Sargen* • The Marge and Charles J. Schott Foundation • Rev. William Scrivener and Susan Pace Jane and Roy Steiner • University of Cincinnati Department of Surgery • University of Cincinnati Institute for Military Medicine • The Vestry on behalf of the parishioners of Christ Church Cathedral

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On Christmas 1914, a series of unofficial truces occurred in no man’s land. In the British sector, soldiers met between the trenches, talked, exchanged souvenirs, and even played football, or soccer, as we call it in the U.S. Second Lieutenant Cyril Drummond took this photograph of British soldiers from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment talking happily with German soldiers from the 134th Saxon Regiment on December 26, 1914. Photo courtesy of the First World War Centenary Partnership Programme led by the Imperial War Museum, © IWM.

Silent Night : The Cincinnati Connection

by Evans Mirageas

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pera is at its most powerful when it allows us to connect on a human level with characters caught up in momentous events. Think of Aida. Against the backdrop of wars between the kingdoms of Egypt and Ethiopia, we focus on the tragic triangle of love and revenge between a man and two women. Never mind that the man is a warrior, the woman he loves is a slave, and her rival is the daughter of the Pharaoh.

Their joy and pain is immediate because the composer and librettist have brought them into the foreground, set against the backdrop of international conflict.

Silent Night does this as well. Again and again, the humanity of the characters, the commonality of men across the brutal chasm of no man’s land is brought into sharp focus.

We are given personal entrée into the lives of the characters. This work also throws a

spotlight on how all of us try to continue our daily routines, even in the midst of cataclysmic events.

Silent Night is based on a French film released in 2005 called Joyeux Noël. On Christmas Eve 1914, at various points along the Western front, troops on both sides of the conflict laid down their arms, crawled out of their trenches, and said mass, buried their dead, played football, exchanged gifts, and most important of all, realized their common humanity in a most inhumane situation.

One reason we at Cincinnati Opera feel so strongly about this production being presented on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I is the resonance it has for Cincinnati. In the early 19th century, as Cincinnati grew beyond the fort town of Losantiville, immigrants started to arrive.

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Production Underwriter The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation Production Sponsor Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Performance Sponsors Cincinnati Opera Guild Robert and Carol Olson • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Huntington Bank

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La Calisto Music by Francesco Cavalli Libretto by Giovanni Faustini July 17, 20, 23, 25, and 27, 2014, at Corbett Theater, School for Creative and Performing Arts

Conductor

David Bates* Stage Director

Ted Huffman

Scenic Designer

David A. Centers costume Designer

Rebecca Senske

Lighting Designer

Thomas C. Hase Choreographer

Zack Winokur*

Hair & Make-up Designer

James D. Geier

Supertitles Author

Ted Huffman

production stage manager

Megan Bennett

* Cincinnati Opera debut

This production was created for and built by Cincinnati Opera.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes.

There will be 1 intermission.

ACT I The world is suffering the consequences of a war between mankind and the gods. Jove, leader of the gods, descends to earth along with Mercury to survey and heal the scorched landscape. He spies the earthly nymph Calisto and is instantly enamored. However, she is devoted to the chaste goddess Diana, and rejects his advances. Mercury advises Jove to take on the form of Diana, to whose charms Calisto will surely submit. The plan succeeds: Calisto gladly accepts affectionate kisses from her beloved goddess.

Endymion, also in love with Diana, encounters her band of huntresses in the forest and confesses his feelings for her. She treats him rather coldly in front of the other huntresses, so as not to betray the fact that she loves him back. Calisto soon rejoins Diana and the huntresses, ecstatic at the pleasure she has experienced with “Diana.” Confused, the real Diana accuses Calisto of being impure and banishes her.

Linfea, one of Diana’s older followers, muses that she too would enjoy a lover. The young satyr Satirino, half-goat, offers himself, though she finds him abhorrent and rejects him. Pan, god of the satyrs, arrives and laments that he too suffers from unrequited passion for Diana; Satirino and Sylvano attempt to cheer him up.

At night, a besotted Endymion sees his beloved Diana in the form of the moon. When he falls asleep, Diana arrives and kisses him. He awakens, overjoyed at his lover’s tenderness. Satirino, having observed the scene, vows revenge for Pan. Intermission

ACT II Jove’s jealous wife, Juno, is suspicious of her husband and decides to pay earth a visit with her Furies. She finds a despairing Calisto, who confesses how “Diana” was at first loving, then cold and cruel. Juno suspects her husband’s involvement and is proven correct when Jove, as Diana, arrives with Mercury to arrange another tryst with Calisto. Juno angrily swears revenge.

Before Jove can disappear for his rendezvous with Calisto, Endymion returns. Believing he is seeing Diana, Endymion enthuses about the kisses he shared with her. Pan, Sylvano, and Satirino fall upon them and are convinced that they have caught Diana with her lover, and they take Endymion prisoner.

Mercury urges Jove to escape, leaving Endymion to believe his beloved has abandoned him.

Meanwhile, Calisto waits expectantly for Diana. In her place, Juno appears and, wielding her celestial power, condemns Calisto to take the form of a bear and wander the earth pursued by the Furies.

Linfea, still desirous of a husband, is overheard by Satirino, and he summons his fellow satyrs to help him entrap her. Linfea calls to her huntress-sisters to defend her and a battle ensues, ending in the satyrs’ retreat.

Heartbroken and suffering, Endymion resigns himself to death. Diana emerges and rescues him from Pan and Sylvano. She decides to keep Endymion as her lover. Jove, still in love with Calisto, promises that when her life on earth as a bear comes to an end, she will have a place among the stars. Together, they ascend to heaven to gaze upon its beauty. But as that time has not yet come, Jove and Calisto must say farewell, and Calisto returns to the form of a bear.

—Adapted from a synopsis provided by the Bavarian State Opera 26 | 2014 Summer Festival

THE CAST in order of vocal appearance

La Calisto Jove

Daniel Okulitch mercury

Andrew Garland Calisto

Nathalie Paulin

Endymion

Michael Maniaci* Diana

Jennifer Johnson Cano*

linfea

Thomas Michael Allen* Satirino

Alisa Jordheim

Pan

Aaron Blake Sylvano

Nathan Stark Juno

Alexandra Deshorties

* Cincinnati Opera debut

Sung in the original Italian World premiere: November 28, 1651, at the Teatro Sant’Apollinare in Venice, Italy A Cincinnati Opera premiere

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Ancient myths have long inspired artists. Here the prolific French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) imagines a blue-caped Jove sidling up to Calisto. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France/The Bridgeman Art Library.

A Star Is Born

by Suzanne Martinucci

T

ouching, sad, scary, fun, and a bit rude,” is how Alastair Macgeorge, chairman of England’s Hampstead Garden Opera, described Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto at the start of his company’s run of performances earlier this year. As Cincinnati Opera embarks on its own production, it makes for an amusing coincidence that director Ted Huffman and his creative team should return with La Calisto after their work last season on Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei. In that work, the title character spent much of his life gazing at the stars; in La Calisto, the title character literally becomes a constellation of stars.

At least, that is the form she eventually takes. The “touching, sad, scary, fun, rude” part, involving the antics of various gods, goddesses, satyrs, shepherds, virgins, and others, entertainingly precedes the celestial transformation. Along the way, audiences

“

encountering this work for the first time may be surprised—and moved—to discover how modern and appealing an opera that is over 360 years old can be. That is, when they’re not being diverted by the occasionally racy turns of the plot!

A fascinating duality pervades La Calisto, and it is perhaps this very quality that may help explain the work’s ever-growing popularity in the wake of its reemergence during the 20th century. In 1651, when it premiered, its creators’ sole aim may simply have been to entertain—and perhaps to encourage a new audience for opera and make some money. At that time, opera itself was evolving as an art form.

Composer Francesco Cavalli (16021676) was no stranger to reinvention.

Born Piero Francesco Caletti-Bruni in the Crema province of Lombardy, this son of ...continued on page 102 2014 Summer Festival | 29

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Madame Butterfly Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica July 24 and 26, 2014, at Cincinnati Music Hall

Conductor

Ramรณn Tebar Stage Director

Marc Verzatt

Scenic Designer

Paul Shortt

Costume Designer

Dean Brown

Lighting Designer

Thomas C. Hase

Hair & Make-up Designer

James D. Geier Chorus Master

Henri Venanzi

SuperTitles Author

Ken Meltz

production stage manager

Whitney McAnally

This production was created for and built by Cincinnati Opera.

Supertitles courtesy of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 3 hours.

There will be 1 intermission.

ACT I At the turn of the 20th century, near Nagasaki, U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased and will occupy with his Japanese bride, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madame Butterfly.

Goro, the marriage broker, outlines the details of the arrangement. Sharpless, the United States Consul, arrives, and Pinkerton shares with him a carefree view of his approaching marriage. Sharpless tries to warn him that Butterfly’s feelings may be more serious. Pinkerton laughs and proposes a toast to America.

Butterfly arrives, accompanied by friends and singing joyously of her wedding. The noisy arrival of her relatives soon follows. In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows Pinkerton her few earthly treasures and tells him she has secretly renounced her faith for Christianity. The Imperial Commissioner performs the brief ceremony. As the celebration commences, Cio-Cio-San’s uncle, the Bonze, bursts in, cursing her for renouncing her religion. The relatives turn on her, but Pinkerton angrily orders them all away. As Butterfly weeps, he tenderly consoles her, and the lovers share a moonlit duet.

Intermission

ACT II Three years later, Cio-Cio-San awaits her husband’s return. Her servant Suzuki implores the gods for help, as Pinkerton’s money is almost gone. Butterfly bids Suzuki to have faith, insisting that one day, Pinkerton’s ship will again appear.

Sharpless enters with a letter for Butterfly, which tells of Pinkerton’s marriage to an American girl.

Before he can share it, Goro enters with Prince Yamadori, a wealthy suitor. Cio-Cio-San politely, yet firmly refuses him. Sharpless attempts to persuade the girl to accept the prince. Cio-Cio-San instead presents her young son, insisting that as soon as Pinkerton learns of him, he will return. Should he not, she says, she would rather die. Saddened but moved by Butterfly‘s devotion, Sharpless quickly leaves.

A cannon roars from the harbor, and Butterfly sees Pinkerton’s ship. Deliriously happy, she and Suzuki strew the house with blossoms. Evening falls, and Cio-Cio-San prepares to keep vigil.

Dawn breaks, and Butterfly continues to wait. Suzuki insists that Cio-Cio-San rest, and Cio-Cio-San carries her sleeping boy to another room. Soon, Sharpless, Pinkerton, and Kate, his new wife, approach.

Suzuki quickly realizes who the strange woman is and reluctantly agrees to help break the news to her mistress. Pinkerton, now aware of Butterfly’s unwavering devotion, bids an anguished farewell to the once-happy place and rushes away. Cio-Cio-San hurries in, expecting her husband, but finds Kate instead. She guesses the truth and, with touching dignity, wishes her happiness. She asks Kate to tell Pinkerton that he may have his son if he returns to collect him. Kate and Sharpless depart.

Butterfly orders Suzuki and the child away. She retrieves the dagger with which her father committed suicide and reads aloud its inscription: “To die with honor when one no longer can live with honor.”

As she raises the blade to her throat, her son enters. Cio-Cio-San drops the knife and tearfully embraces him. She again sends him away, raises the dagger, and stabs herself. As Butterfly dies, Pinkerton cries out her name.

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–Adapted from a synopsis provided by Boston Lyric Opera

THE CAST in order of vocal appearance

Madame Butterfly B.F. Pinkerton, a U.S. Navy lieutenant

Shawn Mathey

Goro, a marriage broker

Steven Cole

Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San’s servant

Kelley O’Connor

Sharpless, U.S. Consul at Nagasaki

Roberto de Candia

Cio-Cio-San, a geisha

Maria Luigia Borsi

Imperial Commissioner

William Tvrdik*

Official Registrar

Andrew Lovato*

The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San’s uncle

Reginald Smith, Jr.

Prince Yamadori

Joseph Lattanzi+

Kate Pinkerton

Adria Caffaro+

Trouble

Alexander Montello* Riley Montello* * Cincinnati Opera debut

+ Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

Sung in the original Italian World premiere: February 17, 1904, at La Scala in Milan, Italy Cincinnati Opera premiere: June 29, 1924, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion 111th and 112th company performances of Madame Butterfly

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Pinkerton returns to Butterfly in the spring when all the flowers are in bloom. “Shake the cherry tree,” Butterfly sings to her faithful companion Suzuki, “till every flower flutters down.” They gather the blossoms and strew them around the house, preparing a perfect welcome for Pinkerton.

Hearts and Flowers:

The Tragic Beauty of Madame Butterfly

by Fred Plotkin

T

he tale is often told, and is reliably accurate, of how Giacomo Puccini encountered the character of Cio-Cio-San. She so enchanted him that he wrote an opera about her that has broken the hardest hearts and moistened the driest eyes ever since.

In the summer of 1900, a half-year after the huge success of Tosca’s premiere in Rome, Puccini was in London and attended a oneact play called Madame Butterfly by David Belasco, the American playwright, director, and producer. Although Puccini did not speak English, the acting and the story affected him deeply and immediately prompted him to imagine the central character as a protagonist for his next opera.

What is not often discussed is that Belasco’s play and Puccini’s opera drew on older source material that is typically forgotten today. In 1887, a novel called

Madame Chrysanthème was published in French by Pierre Loti. The leading character in the novel was not the young Japanese geisha but a French naval officer called Pierre.

There is little doubt that this novel was loosely autobiographical and that the author was basing the story on some of his own experiences.

Loti spent time in Nagasaki (where the opera is set), employed a marriage broker, had a temporary marriage with a local woman, and then permanently left Japan.

Unlike the trauma and tragedy in the opera, in the French version Madame Chrysanthème seems untroubled by Pierre’s leave-taking, focusing instead on counting the money he has left her as part of the terms of their marriage contract. Pierre is a callous figure, but the geisha is pragmatic and not terribly undone by love and expectation. ...continued on page 106 2014 Summer Festival | 35

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Season Artists Cincinnati Opera 2014

David Charles Abell, conductor (London, United Kingdom) 2014: Silent Night Cincinnati: Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: Forever (Erato Records with Diana Damrau); Carmen; Madame Butterfly (Royal Albert Hall, London); Sweeney Todd; Sunday in the Park with George; Into the Woods (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris); La Gazza Ladra (Opera North, UK); Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory, London); Rigoletto; Manon Lescaut (Luglio Musicale Trapanese, Sicily); Follies (Opéra de Toulon) Upcoming: Silent Night (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera, UK); Concerts (BBC Proms; Philly Pops; Royal Philharmonic, London)

Phillip Addis, baritone (Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Lt. Audebert, Silent Night Elsewhere: Pelléas, Pelléas et Mélisande (Opéra Comique de Paris; BBC Proms); Schaunard, Marcello, La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company); Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro (Pacific Opera Victoria) Upcoming: Pelléas, Pelléas et Mélisande (Semperoper Dresden); Figaro, Barber of Seville (Edmonton Opera); Lt. Audebert, Silent Night (Opéra de Montréal)

Tyler Alessi, baritone (Irvine, California) 2014: William Dale, Silent Night Cincinnati: Guccio, Gianni Schicchi (2012); Marullo, Rigoletto; Captain, Eugene Onegin; Second Priest, Magic Flute (2011); Custom House Officer, La Bohème (2010) Elsewhere: Soloist, Lord Nelson Mass (Asheville Symphony); Spencer Coyle, Owen Wingrave; Escamillo, The Tragedy of Carmen (UC College-Conservatory of Music)

David Bates, conductor (London, United Kingdom) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: La Calisto Elsewhere: Xerxes (Iford Festival, UK); Acis and Galatea; Il Pastor Fido; Apollo e Dafne (London Handel Festival); Venus and Adonis; Jephte; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Spitalfields Music Festival, London); L’Orfeo, Favola in Musica (King’s Place, London); L’Issipile (Wigmore Hall, London); L’Orfeo (Opéra de Rouen); Dido and Aeneas (Opéra Royal de Versailles); The Creation (Haydn Choir, UK); Giulio Cesare (Opéra de Paris) Upcoming: Orontea (Innsbruck Festival); Israel in Egypt; La Calisto (London Handel Festival); Monteverdi opera cycle (Wigmore Hall, London)

Aaron Blake, tenor (San Pedro, California) 2014: El Remendado, Carmen; Pan, La Calisto Cincinnati: Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (2013) Elsewhere: Tamino, Magic Flute (Minnesota Opera; Opera Birmingham); Fenton, Falstaff (Virginia Opera); Pedrillo, Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera Grand Rapids)

Thomas Blondelle, tenor (Bruges, Belgium) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Nikolaus Sprink, Silent Night Elsewhere: Erik, Flying Dutchman (Opéra National du Rhin); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni; Tamino, Magic Flute; David, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Deutsche Oper Berlin) Upcoming: Narraboth, Salome (BBC Proms); Zinoviy Izmailov, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Prince, Love for Three Oranges (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Drum Major, Wozzeck (City Halls Glasgow); Max, Der Freischütz (Staatsoper Stuttgart); Claudio, Das Liebesverbot (Opéra National du Rhin)

Maria Luigia Borsi, soprano Thomas Michael Allen, tenor (Winfield, Illinois) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Linfea, La Calisto Elsewhere: Almaviva, Barber of Seville (Komische Oper, Berlin; Nationaltheater Mannheim); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (Tel Aviv Opera; Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany); Belmonte, Abduction from the Seraglio (Göttingen Opera, Germany); Demon, L’Upupa (Opéra de Lyon; Suntory Hall, Tokyo; Semperoper Dresden); Arnalta, L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Komische Oper, Berlin; La Monnaie, Brussels); Calisis, Les Boréades (Opéra de Lyon; Zurich Opera); Athamas, Semele (Zurich Opera; Beijing Opera) Upcoming: Flute, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Eumete, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Komische Oper, Berlin); Innkeeper, Der Rosenkavalier (Baden-Baden Festival, Germany)

(Sora, Italy) 2014: Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi (2012); Desdemona, Otello (2010) Elsewhere: Liù, Turandot (Teatro alla Scala; Les Chorégies d’Orange, France); Violetta, La Traviata (Teatro La Fenice, Italy); Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Tel Aviv Opera); Mimì, La Bohème (Deutsche Oper Berlin; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona); Leonora, Il Trovatore (Novaya Opera, Moscow); Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly (Royal Danish Opera; Pittsburgh Opera); Desdemona, Otello (Salzburg Festival) Upcoming: Desdemona, Otello (Oviedo Opera, Spain); Magda, La Rondine (Ravenna Opera Festival; Opera Lucca; Modena Opera; Livorno Opera; Teatro di Pisa); solo album with London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Yves Abel

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Dean Brown, costume designer (Washington, D.C.) 2014: Carmen Cincinnati: Madame Butterfly (1996, 1992, 1983, 1977); Don Pasquale (1996); La Bohème (1994, 1988, 1974); Abduction from the Seraglio (1992); Barber of Seville (1991, 1977); Carmen (1991, 1988, 1985, 1981); Tosca (1976); Hansel and Gretel (1973) Elsewhere: Gigi (national tour); Can Can (Radio City Rockettes national tour)

William Burden, tenor (Miami, Florida) 2014: Don José, Carmen Cincinnati: Lensky, Eugene Onegin (2011); Don José, Carmen (2009) Elsewhere: Hoffmann, Tales of Hoffmann (Seattle Opera); Frank Harris, Oscar (Santa Fe Opera); Peter, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (San Francisco Opera); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (Bayerische Staatsoper); Nikolaus Sprink, Silent Night (Opera Philadelphia); King of Naples, The Tempest (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: Flamand, Capriccio (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Frank Harris, Oscar (Opera Philadelphia); Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor (New Orleans Opera); Der Maler, Ein Neger, Lulu (De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam)

Adria Caffaro, mezzo-soprano (Omaha, Nebraska) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Madeleine Audebert, Silent Night; Kate Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly Elsewhere: Mary Johnson, Fellow Travelers workshop (Opera Fusion: New Works); Aloès, L’Étoile; Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro; Tisbe, La Cenerentola (UC CollegeConservatory of Music)

Jennifer Johnson Cano, soprano (St. Louis, Missouri) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Diana, La Calisto Elsewhere: Meg Page, Falstaff; Bersi, Andrea Chénier; Emilia, Otello; Mercédès, Carmen; Wellgunde, Waltraute, Der Ring des Nibelungen; Sandman, Hansel and Gretel; Kate Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera); Marguerite, La Damnation de Faust (Tucson Desert Festival of Song); Fox, Cunning Little Vixen (Cleveland Orchestra) Upcoming: Mercédès, Carmen; Nicklausse, Tales of Hoffmann; Hansel, Hansel and Gretel (Metropolitan Opera); Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Boston Lyric Opera)

David A. Centers, scenic designer (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2014: La Calisto Cincinnati: Galileo Galilei (2013); A Flowering Tree (2011); 90th Anniversary Gala Concert (2010); Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story (2007); Don Pasquale (1996) Elsewhere: Next To Normal (Human Race Theatre Company); Annie (Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati) Upcoming: Beauty and the Beast; Snow Queen (Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Human Race Theatre Company)

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Gina Cerimele-Mechley, fight director (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2014: Silent Night Cincinnati: Rigoletto (2011) Elsewhere: Camelot; Romeo and Juliet (Cincinnati Ballet); Burn This (New Edgecliff Theatre) Upcoming: Assassins (Cincinnati Actor’s Studio & Academy); Peter Pan (Cincinnati Ballet)

Steven Cole, tenor (Baltimore, Maryland) 2014: Goro, Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Sporting Life, Porgy and Bess (2012); Monsieur Triquet, Eugene Onegin; Monostatos, Magic Flute (2011); Don Basilio, Marriage of Figaro; El Remendado, Carmen (2009); Goro, Madame Butterfly (2008); Four Valets, Tales of Hoffmann (2006) Elsewhere: Abbé de Chazeuil, Adriana Lecouvreur (Nice Opera); Four Valets, Tales of Hoffmann (San Francisco Opera); Spalanzani, Tales of Hoffmann (Seattle Opera) Upcoming: Ménélas, La Belle Hélène (Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp)

Thomas Cooley, tenor (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Kronprinz, Silent Night Elsewhere: Acis, Acis and Galatea (Mark Morris Dance Group, Berkeley, Boston, and New York); Tristan, Le Vin Herbé (Bergen National Opera, Norway); Samson, Samson (American Classical Orchestra, New York); Bob Boles, Peter Grimes (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra); Peter Quint, Turn of the Screw (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra); Bajazet, Tamerlano (Göttingen Handel Festival, Germany)

Roberto de Candia, baritone (Bisceglie, Italy) 2014: Sharpless, Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Tonio, Pagliacci; Gianni Schicchi, Gianni Schicchi (2012) Elsewhere: Falstaff, Falstaff (Japan tour with Teatro alla Scala; Teatro Petruzzelli); Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale (Finnish National Opera); Leporello, Don Giovanni (Tenerife Opera); Buonafede, Il Mondo della Luna (Opéra de Monte-Carlo) Upcoming: Falstaff, Falstaff (Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Italy; San Diego Opera); Leporello, Don Giovanni (Pamplona Opera; Modena Opera; Piacenza Opera; Lucca Opera); Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona); Figaro, Barber of Seville (Teatro Regio, Turin); Ragueneau, Cyrano (Metropolitan Opera); Rambaldo, La Rondine (Théâtre du Capitole)

Alexandra Deshorties, soprano (New York, New York) 2014: Juno, La Calisto Cincinnati: Fiordiligi, Così Fan Tutte (2007); Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (2004) Elsewhere: Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Den Norske Opera, Oslo; Palm Beach Opera); Fiordiligi, Così Fan Tutte (Palau de les Arts, Valencia); Valentine, Les Huguenots (Bard Music Festival, New York); Desdemona, Otello; Juliana Bordereau, The Aspern Papers (Dallas Opera); Countess, Marriage of Figaro (Peter Mattei Festival, Sweden); Medea, Medea (Glimmerglass Opera); Elisabetta I, Roberto Devereux (Welsh National Opera) Upcoming: Mathilde, William Tell (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Bard of Germania, In Parenthesis (Welsh National Opera)

Marcus Dilliard, lighting designer (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Silent Night Elsewhere: Tartuffe (South Coast Repertory); Silent Night (Fort Worth Opera); Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera); Hive (Black Label Movement, Minneapolis); Our Town; Cabaret (Theater Latté Da, Minneapolis); The Ballad of Emmett Till (Penumbra Theatre Company, St. Paul, Minnesota); Out of the Pan Into the Fire (The Moving Company, Minneapolis); Rumblings (Minnesota Dance Theatre); Born Yesterday (The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis) Upcoming: Wreck (Black Label Movement, Minneapolis); La Fanciulla del West (Minnesota Opera); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Otello (Pittsburgh Opera)

Thomas Dreeze, baritone (Toledo, Ohio) 2014: British Major, Silent Night Cincinnati: A Notary, Der Rosenkavalier (2013); Maestro Spinelloccio, Gianni Schicchi (2012); Zaretsky, Eugene Onegin (2011) Elsewhere: Dona Nobis Pacem (Xavier University); Balthazar, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra) Upcoming: Recital (Minneapolis); Fauré Requiem (Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati)

Christopher Eanes, children’s chorus director (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2014: Carmen Cincinnati: Der Rosenkavalier (2013); Pagliacci (2012); La Bohème (2010) Elsewhere: Messe Cum Jubilo; Saint Nicolas (Cincinnati Boychoir) Upcoming: Messiah; Chichester Psalms; A Horizon Symphony (Cincinnati Boychoir)

Drew Fracher, fight director (Highland Heights, Kentucky) 2014: Carmen Cincinnati: Don Giovanni (2013); Pagliacci; Gianni Schicchi; Porgy and Bess (2012); Carmen (2009); Don Giovanni; Faust (1999) Elsewhere: Three Musketeers; Hiding Behind Comets; King Lear; Othello; Company; Dead Eye Boy (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Hamlet; Macbeth; Othello; Romeo and Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Whipping Man; Appropriate; Othello; Peter Pan; Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Three Musketeers; Mr. Roberts; The Crucible (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Henry IV; Hamlet; Henry V; Cyrano; Othello (Georgia Shakespeare Festival)

Andrew Garland, baritone (Kingston, Massachusetts) 2014: Mercury, La Calisto Cincinnati: Young Galileo, Galileo Galilei (2013); Fiorello, Barber of Seville (2005); Motorcycle Cop, Dead Man Walking (2002) Elsewhere: Papageno, Magic Flute; Starveling, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boston Lyric Opera); Silvio, Pagliacci (Hawaii Opera Theatre); Schaunard, La Bohème (Seattle Opera); Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro (Dayton Opera); Dandini, La Cenerentola (Knoxville Opera); Ping, Turandot (Arizona Opera); Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Opera New Jersey) Upcoming: Soloist, Messiah (Colorado Bach Festival); Soloist, Il Maestro di Cappella (Boston Baroque)

Alain Gauthier, stage director (Montreal, Canada) 2014: Carmen Cincinnati: Pagliacci; Gianni Schicchi (2012); Così Fan Tutte (2007); L’Étoile (2006) Elsewhere: Carmen (Columbus Symphony); La Bohème (Jeunesses Musicales du Canada); La Vie Parisienne (L’Opèra de Québec); Lakmé; Dead Man Walking; Pagliacci; Gianni Schicchi; Suor Angelica; Il Tabarro; Barber of Seville; Faust; L’Étoile (Opéra de Montréal) Upcoming: Samson and Delilah (Opéra de Montréal); Carmen (Calgary Opera)

James D. Geier, hair & make-up designer (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2014: Resident Hair and Makeup Designer Cincinnati: 2004-2013 seasons Elsewhere: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Pittsburgh Opera; Cincinnati Ballet Upcoming: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Pittsburgh Opera; Cincinnati Ballet

Thomas Glenn, tenor (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) 2014: Jonathan Dale, Silent Night Cincinnati: Beppe, Pagliacci; Gherardo, Gianni Schicchi (2012) Elsewhere: Lindoro, L’Italiana in Algeri (Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont); Almaviva, Barber of Seville (Belle-Île Festival, France); Goro, Madame Butterfly (Calgary Opera); Spalanzani, Tales of Hoffmann (San Francisco Opera) Upcoming: Don Basilio, Don Curzio, Marriage of Figaro (Calgary Opera)

Andrzej Goulding, projection designer (London, United Kingdom) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Silent Night Elsewhere: Peter Grimes (Grange Park Opera, UK); Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse, London); From Morning to Midnight (National Theatre, London); Union (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); The Machine (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Carousel (Barbican Theatre, London) Upcoming: The Impresario; Le Rossignol (Santa Fe Opera)

Thomas C. Hase, lighting designer (Madison, Wisconsin) 2014: Resident Lighting Designer and Lighting Director Cincinnati: 1997-2013 seasons Elsewhere: La Bohème; Der Rosenkavalier (Malmö Opera, Sweden); Carmen (Dallas Opera) Upcoming: Doctor Zhivago (Malmö Opera, Sweden); Don Carlos (Opera Philadelphia); Iolanta (Dallas Opera); The Color Purple (Milwaukee Repertory Theater)

Ted Huffman, stage director (Greenwich, Connecticut) 2014: La Calisto Cincinnati: Galileo Galilei (2013) Elsewhere: La Cenerentola (Yale Opera); Hydrogen Jukebox (Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee); Les Mamelles de Tirésias (La Monnaie, Brussels); Giasone (English Touring Opera); Threepenny Opera (London Philharmonic Orchestra) Upcoming: projects (Theatre an der Wien; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco; Glyndebourne Festival)

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Craig Irvin, baritone (Waukee, Iowa) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Lt. Horstmayer, Silent Night Elsewhere: Lt. Horstmayer, Silent Night (Fort Worth Opera; Opera Philadelphia; Minnesota Opera); Mandryka, Arabella (Minnesota Opera); Dandini, La Cenerentola (Pensacola Opera); Leporello, Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera); Figaro, Marriage of Figaro (Des Moines Metro Opera); Ashby, La Fanciulla del West; Angelotti, Tosca (Lyric Opera of Chicago) Upcoming: Peter, Hansel and Gretel (Minnesota Opera); Pirate King, Pirates of Penzance (Nashville Opera); Lt. Horstmayer, Silent Night (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Zurga, Pearl Fishers (Utah Opera)

Alisa Jordheim, soprano (Appleton, Wisconsin) 2014: Satirino, La Calisto Cincinnati: Page, Rigoletto; Spirit, Magic Flute (2011) Elsewhere: Micaela, Carmen (Columbus Symphony); Lucia, The Rape of Lucretia; Barbarina, Marriage of Figaro (Merola Opera Program, San Francisco); Miss Wordsworth, Albert Herring; Frasquita, Carmen (Florentine Opera); Flora, Turn of the Screw (Central City Opera); Bestienne, Bestien und Bestienne (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra) Upcoming: Nannetta, Falstaff (Emerald City Opera, Colorado); Marzelline, Fidelio (Madison Opera); Lulu Baines, Elmer Gantry (Florentine Opera)

Allen Charles Klein, scenic designer (New York, New York) 2014: Carmen Cincinnati: Aida (2013, 2007); Otello (2010); La Traviata (2008); Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (1978) Elsewhere: Carmen (Dallas Opera; Opera Philadelphia); La Traviata (Florida Grand Opera); Turandot (Dallas Opera; Florida Grand Opera; San Francisco Opera); Marriage of Figaro (Fort Worth Opera; Opéra de Montréal); Tales of Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera); La Cenerentola (Glyndebourne Festival); Lulu (Vienna State Opera)

Kärin Kopischke, costume designer (Door County, Wisconsin) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Silent Night Elsewhere: The Dream of Valentino (Minnesota Opera); Street Scene (Lawrence University Conservatory of Music); Silent Night (Minnesota Opera; Opera Philadelphia; Fort Worth Opera); Sunday in the Park with George (Peninsula Players Theatre, Wisconsin); Rusalka (Boston Lyric Opera; Colorado Opera; Opéra de Montréal); The Grapes of Wrath (Utah Opera; Pittsburgh Opera) Upcoming: Big Fish (First Stage Milwaukee); Butler (Peninsula Players Theatre, Wisconsin)

Joseph Lattanzi, baritone (Mableton, Georgia) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Moralès, Carmen; Gueusselin, Silent Night; Prince Yamadori, Madame Butterfly Elsewhere: Soloist, War Requiem (Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi); Malatesta, Don Pasquale (UC CollegeConservatory of Music; Seattle Opera); Assan, The Consul (Seattle Opera); Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers workshop (Opera Fusion: New Works); Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro (Merola Opera Program, San Francisco Opera); Papageno, Magic Flute (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Moralès, Carmen (Seattle Opera)

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Andrew Lovato, baritone (Waukesha, Wisconsin) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Official Registrar, Madame Butterfly Elsewhere: Dr. Malatesta, Don Pasquale (Santa Fe Opera); Schaunard, La Bohème (Central City Opera); Masetto, Don Giovanni (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Soloist (Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble) Upcoming: Sonora, La Fanciulla del West; El Dancairo, Carmen (Minnesota Opera)

Michael Maniaci, countertenor (Cincinnati, Ohio) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Endymion, La Calisto Elsewhere: Aminta, L’Olimpiade (Garsington Opera, UK); Soloist, Carmina Burana (Fort Worth Symphony); Nireno, Giulio Cesare (Metropolitan Opera); Xerxes, Xerxes (Boston Baroque); Sesto, Giulio Cesare (Fort Worth Opera); Amore, L’Arbore di Diana (Opéra National de Montpellier); Hernán Cortés, Montezuma (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin); Sesto, La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra Atelier)

Shawn Mathey, tenor (Bowling Green, Ohio) 2014: Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Tamino, Magic Flute (2011); Ferrando, Così Fan Tutte (2007); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (2004) Elsewhere: Faust, Faust (Toledo Opera; Opera Hong Kong); Duke, Rigoletto (Seoul Arts Center); Tamino, Magic Flute (English National Opera; Dallas Opera; Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (San Francisco Opera) Upcoming: Tamino, Magic Flute (Opéra de Vichy; Opéra de Lausanne); Chevalier de la Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites (Washington National Opera)

Laquita Mitchell, soprano (New York, New York) 2014: Micaela, Carmen Cincinnati: Mimì, La Bohème (2005) Elsewhere: Bess, Porgy and Bess (San Francisco Opera; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Syracuse Opera; Atlanta Opera; Tanglewood Music Festival); Leonora, Il Trovatore (Bob Jones University, South Carolina); Violetta, La Traviata (New York City Opera); Sharon, Master Class (Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.); Musetta, La Bohème (Los Angeles Opera); Mimì, La Bohème (Utah Opera); Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Florentine Opera; Portland Opera; Opera New Jersey) Upcoming: Bess, Porgy and Bess (Jacksonville Symphony; Santa Barbara Symphony); Soloist, Porgy and Bess Suite (Sheboygan Symphony, Wisconsin)

Francis O’Connor, scenic designer (London, United Kingdom) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Silent Night Elsewhere: Rusalka (Opéra de Monte-Carlo); Pinocchio (Opera North, UK; Die Theater Chemnitz, Germany; Moscow Opera; Theater Bonn Opernhaus, Germany; Minnesota Opera); Fortunio; Eugene Onegin (Grange Park Opera, UK); Abduction from the Seraglio; Il Turco in Italia (Garsington Festival, UK); The Flying Dutchman (Stadttheater Bern, Switzerland); La Traviata (English National Opera) Upcoming: Vert Vert (Garsington Opera, UK); Peter Grimes (Grange Park Opera, UK)

Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano (Los Angeles, California) 2014: Suzuki, Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Lorca, Ainadamar (2009) Elsewhere: Lorca, Ainadamar (New Zealand International Arts Festival); El Amor Brujo (National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C.); Beethoven Mass in C (Cleveland Orchestra); Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (New York Philharmonic); Suzuki, Madame Butterfly (Boston Lyric Opera) Upcoming: Smeton, Anna Bolena (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Mozart Requiem (Mostly Mozart Festival)

Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 2014: Escamillo, Carmen; Jove, La Calisto Cincinnati: Slave, Magic Flute (2001); Nazarene, Salome (2000) Elsewhere: Ennis Del Mar, Brokeback Mountain (Teatro Real, Madrid); Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Vancouver Opera); Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro (Santa Fe Opera); Figaro, Marriage of Figaro (Arizona Opera); Pirate King, Pirates of Penzance (Portland Opera); Sharpless, Madame Butterfly (Calgary Opera); Swallow, Peter Grimes (Teatro alla Scala, Italy) Upcoming: Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Milwaukee Symphony); Lt. Horstmayer, Silent Night (Calgary Opera); Herman Broder, Enemies, A Love Story (Palm Beach Opera); Creonte, Medea (Grand Théâtre de Genève)

Nathalie Paulin, soprano (Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada) 2014: Calisto, La Calisto Cincinnati: Despina, Così Fan Tutte (2007); Princess Laoula, L’Étoile; Antonia, Tales of Hoffmann (2006); Susanna, Marriage of Figaro (2002) Elsewhere: Micaela, Carmen (Opera Tampa); Metella, La Vie Parisienne (Opèra de Québec); Mirza, Lalla Roukh (Opera Lafayette, Washington, D.C.); Alexina, Le Roi Malgré Lui (Wexford Festival, Ireland); Marzelline, Fidelio (Edmonton Opera); Iole, Hercules (Tafelmusik, Toronto) Upcoming: Theodora, Theodora (Early Music Vancouver); Countess, Marriage of Figaro (Opera Lyra Ottawa)

Marc Piollet, conductor (Paris, France) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Carmen Elsewhere: Eugene Onegin (Oper Köln, Germany); Elixir of Love; Tristan und Isolde (Teatro Real, Madrid); Tales of Hoffmann (Opéra National de Paris; Bayerische Staatsoper); Carmen (Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona); La Bohème (Royal Danish Opera) Upcoming: Magic Flute (Deutsche Oper am Rhein); The Merry Widow (Oper Köln, Germany); La Bohème (Volksoper Vienna; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona)

Elizabeth Pojanowski, mezzo-soprano (New York, New York) 2014: Mercédès, Carmen Cincinnati: Mercédès, Carmen; Tebaldo, Don Carlo; Ensemble, Ainadamar (2009); Secretary to Mao, Nixon in China (2007) Elsewhere: Tisbe, La Cenerentola (Opera Omaha); Shelley, Anna Nicole (New York City Opera); Ernestina, L’Occasione Fa Il Ladro (Little Opera Theatre of NY) Upcoming: Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro (Seattle Opera)

Gabriel Preisser, baritone (Orlando, Florida) 2014 Cincinnati Debut: Lt. Gordon, Silent Night Elsewhere: Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet (St. Petersburg Opera); Silvio, Pagliacci (Opera Naples); Belcore, Elixir of Love (Shreveport Opera, Louisiana); Figaro, Barber of Seville (Kentucky Opera); John Brooke, Little Women (Pensacola Opera); Le Mari, Les Mamelles de Tirésias; Bobby, Mahagonny Songspiel (Opera Parallèle, San Francisco) Upcoming: Falke, Die Fledermaus (Minnesota Orchestra); Belcore, Elixir of Love (Ópera Minaz, Brazil); Mr. Bean, Fantastic Mr. Fox (Opera San Antonio); Escamillo, Carmen (Lyric Opera of the North, Minnesota)

Jeff Rebudal, choreographer (Honolulu, Hawaii) 2014: Carmen Cincinnati: L’Étoile (2006) Elsewhere: L’Étoile (Glimmerglass Opera; Bergen National Opera, Norway; New York City Opera; Opéra de Montréal; Austin Lyric Opera); A Little Night Music; La Traviata; La Rondine; Romeo and Juliet (Michigan Opera Theatre) Upcoming: Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe, San Diego)

Stacey Rishoi, mezzo-soprano (Bellevue, Kentucky) 2014: Carmen, Carmen Cincinnati: La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi; Flora, La Traviata (2012); Maddalena, Rigoletto; Madame Larina, Eugene Onegin (2011) Elsewhere: Delilah, Samson and Delilah (Opera Grand Rapids; Kentucky Symphony Orchestra); Amneris, Aida (Opera Tampa); Composer, Ariadne auf Naxos (Toledo Opera; Calgary Opera); Soloist, Verdi Requiem (Toledo Symphony Orchestra); Soloist, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; Charlotte Symphony Orchestra)

Hugh Russell, baritone (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Father Palmer, Silent Night Elsewhere: Taddeo, L’Italiana in Algeri (Calgary Opera); General Stanley, Pirates of Penzance (Opera Theatre of St. Louis); Carmina Burana (Philadelphia Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic; San Francisco Symphony; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra); The Bells (Madison Symphony Orchestra) Upcoming: Carmina Burana (Louisville Orchestra); Falke, Die Fledermaus (Vancouver Opera)

Alexandra Schoeny, soprano (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2014: Frasquita, Carmen Cincinnati: Zerlina, Don Giovanni; Noble Orphan, Der Rosenkavalier; Maria Celeste, Duchess Christina, Galileo Galilei; High Priestess, Aida (2013); Nella, Gianni Schicchi (2012) Elsewhere: Clarina, Cambiale di Matrimonio (Aix-en-Provence Festival; Opéra Royal de Versailles); Frasquita, Carmen (Delft Opera Company, Netherlands) Upcoming: Dircé, Médée; Mrs. Julian, Owen Wingrave (Opera Trionfo, Netherlands)

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Rebecca Senske, costume designer (Hutchinson, Kansas) 2014: La Calisto Cincinnati: Galileo Galilei (2013); A Flowering Tree (2011); Ainadamar (2009); Così Fan Tutte (2007) Elsewhere: Singin’ in the Rain (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati)

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(Newnan, Georgia) 2014: French General, Silent Night Cincinnati: Betto di Signa, Gianni Schicchi; Marquis d’Obigny, La Traviata (2012); Monterone, Rigoletto (2005) Elsewhere: King of Egypt, Aida (Dayton Opera) Soloist, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Louisville Orchestra) Upcoming: Rocco, Fidelio (Kentucky Opera); Nourabad, Pearl Fishers (Dayton Opera)

Paul Shortt, scenic designer (Saginaw, Michigan) 2014: Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: La Traviata (1998, 1989, 1984, 1980, 1977); Falstaff (1997); Madame Butterfly (1996, 1992); Carmen (1988, 1976) Elsewhere: Carmen (Opera Omaha); Double Indemnity (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Rake’s Progress (UC College-Conservatory of Music) Upcoming: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)

Eric Simonson, stage director (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Silent Night Elsewhere: stage director: Silent Night (Minnesota Opera; Opera Philadelphia); Wuthering Heights (Minnesota Opera); Rusalka (Opera Colorado); Grapes of Wrath (Minnesota Opera; Pittsburgh Opera); film director: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin; On Tiptoe; Studs Terkel: Listening to America; playwright: Song of Jacob Zulu (Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Broadway) Lombardi; Magic/Bird; Bronx Bombers (Broadway); Bang the Drum Slowly; Work Song (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Honest; Fake (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Reginald Smith, Jr., baritone (Atlanta, Georgia) 2014: The Bonze, Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Frazier, Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: studio member 20132015 (Houston Grand Opera); El Dancairo, Carmen; Marullo, Rigoletto; Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus (Houston Grand Opera); Falstaff, Falstaff (Janiec Opera Company, North Carolina) Upcoming: Speaker, Magic Flute; Sharpless cover, Madame Butterfly (Houston Grand Opera)

Nathan Stark, bass (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 2014: Zuniga, Carmen; Sylvano, La Calisto Cincinnati: Commendatore, Don Giovanni; Cardinal Barberini, Pope Urban VIII, Simplicio, Galileo Galilei (2013); Monterone, Rigoletto; Speaker, Magic Flute (2011); Montano, Otello; Alcindoro, La Bohème (2010) Elsewhere: One-Armed Man, Die Frau ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera); Nazarene, Salome (Boston Symphony Orchestra); Sulpice, Daughter of the Regiment (Madison Opera); Hunding, Die Walküre (Dayton Opera); Leporello, Don Giovanni (Opera Grand Rapids); Nourabad, Pearl Fishers (Virginia Opera) Upcoming: Mustafa, L’Italiana in Algeri (Opera San Jose); Monterone, Rigoletto (Atlanta Opera)

Ramón Tebar, conductor (Valencia, Spain) 2014: Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: assistant conductor and accompanist (2008) Elsewhere: Thaïs; Nabucco; La Bohème; Mourning Becomes Electra; La Sonnambula; La Traviata; La Rondine; Turandot; Tosca; María de Buenos Aires (Florida Grand Opera); Carmen (Theatro Municipal, São Paulo); L’Italiana in Algeri; Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Torino, Italy); Lucia di Lammermoor (Festival de Ópera de A Coruña, Spain); I Puritani (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Italy) Upcoming: Madame Butterfly; Così Fan Tutte; The Consul (Florida Grand Opera); La Traviata (Festival de Ópera de A Coruña, Spain)

Sumner Thompson, tenor (Clinton, Massachusetts) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: El Dancairo, Carmen Elsewhere: Orfeo, L’Orfeo (Copenhagen Opera House); Aeneas, Dido and Aeneas (Oregon Bach Festival); Hidraot, La Haine, Armide (Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Paris); Huascar, Adario, Les Indes Galantes (Boston Baroque); La Fleuve, Psyché (Boston Early Music Festival) Upcoming: Siegmund, Die Walküre (concert performance, Boston); Restaurant Waiter, Death in Venice (Chicago Opera Theater)

William Tvrdik, bass (Vacaville, California) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Imperial Commissioner, Madame Butterfly Elsewhere: Hunding, Die Walküre; Archibaldo, Love of Three Kings; Buonafede, Il Mondo della Luna (Queen City Chamber Opera); Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale; Don Magnifico, La Cenerentola; Carl Olsen, Street Scene; Commendatore, Don Giovanni (UC College-Conservatory of Music Upcoming: Imperial Commissioner, Madame Butterfly; Madhouse Keeper, The Rake’s Progress (Utah Opera)

Henri Venanzi, chorus master (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 2014: Resident Chorus Master Cincinnati: 1990-2013 seasons Elsewhere: Chorus Master, Head of Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist Program (Arizona Opera); Recital, Liszt Competition Winner (New York, Los Angeles); Featured Pianist, Ned Rorem Air Music (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra); U.S. Artist in Residence (Xi’an, China) Upcoming: Chorus Master, Head of Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist Program (Arizona Opera)

Marc Verzatt, stage director (East Orange, New Jersey) 2014: Madame Butterfly Cincinnati: Tosca (2007) Elsewhere: Barber of Seville (Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia); Turandot (Toledo Opera); Don Giovanni (Boston Youth Symphony) Upcoming: Tosca (Nickel City Opera, New York); Suor Angelica (Hartford Symphony); master classes (Tidewater Opera, Virginia; Spotlight on Opera, Austin)

Erin Wall, soprano (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: Anna Sørensen, Silent Night Elsewhere: Arabella, Arabella (Metropolitan Opera; Santa Fe Opera); Antonia, Tales of Hoffmann (Lyric Opera of Chicago; Canadian Opera Company); Helena, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Metropolitan Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago); Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Vancouver Opera; Bayerische Staatsoper) Upcoming: Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera; Bayerische Staatsoper); Anna Sørensen, Silent Night (Lyric Opera of Kansas City)

Andrew Wilkowske, baritone (Willmar, Minnesota) 2014: Ponchel, Silent Night Cincinnati: Grégorio, Romeo and Juliet; Antonio, Marriage of Figaro; Tutor, Elektra (2002); Priest, Magic Flute (2001) Elsewhere: Emperor, Emperor of Atlantis (Chicago Opera Theater); Papageno, Magic Flute (Minnesota Opera); Ponchel, Silent Night (Opera Philadelphia) Upcoming: Dulcamara, Elixir of Love (Minnesota Opera); Ponchel, Silent Night (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Zeta, The Merry Widow (Boston Lyric Opera)

Zack Winokur, choreographer (Boston, Massachusetts) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2014: La Calisto Elsewhere: Hydrogen Jukebox (Skylight Music Theater, Milwaukee); Most of the Boys (Royal Opera House, UK); Les Mamelles des Tirésias (Aldeburgh Music, UK; Aix-en-Provence Festival; La Monnaie, Brussels); Threepenny Opera (Royal Festival Hall, UK); Episode 31 (Joffrey Ballet, Chicago); choreographer (The Troupe) Upcoming: James S. Marcus Opera Directing Fellow, 2014-2015 Season (The Juilliard School)

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Cincinnati Opera 2014 cincinnati symphony orchestra Violins I Timothy Lees Rebecca Culnan Eric Bates Kathryn Woolley Anna Reider Sylvia Samis Mauricio Aguiar Minyoung Baik James Braid Janet Carpenter Michelle Edgar Dugan Rebecca Kruger Fryxell Gerald Itzkoff Lois Reid Johnson Sylvia Mitchell Luo-Jia Wu Violins II Gabriel Pegis Scott Mozlin Kun Dong Cheryl Benedict Drake Crittenden Ash Harold Byers Chiun-Teng Cheng Chika Kinderman David Moore Hye-Sun Park Paul Patterson Stacey Woolley

Violas Christian Colberg Paul Frankenfeld Julian Wilkison Marna Street Rebecca Barnes Belinda Burge Stephen Fryxell Gi Yeon Koh Denisse Rodriguez- Rivera Steven Rosen Joanne Wojtowicz Cellos Ilya Finkelshteyn Daniel Culnan Norman Johns Christina Coletta Matthew Lad Susan Marshall- Petersen Theodore Nelson Alan Rafferty Dana Rusinak Charles Snavely

Basses Owen Lee James Lambert Matthew Zory, Jr. Wayne Anderson Boris Astafiev Ronald Bozicevich Rick Vizachero Harp Gillian Benet Sella Flutes Randolph Bowman Amy Taylor Leah Arsenault Piccolo Joan Voorhees Oboes Dwight Parry Richard Johnson Lon Bussell

Bass Clarinet Ronald Aufmann

Bass Trombone Peter Norton

Bassoons William Winstead Hugh Michie Martin Garcia

Tuba Carson McTeer

Contrabassoon Jennifer Monroe French Horns Elizabeth Freimuth Thomas Sherwood Elizabeth Porter Lisa Conway Duane Dugger Charles Bell Trumpets Douglas Lindsay Steven Pride Christopher Kiradjieff

Trombones English Horn Christopher Philpotts Cristian Ganicenco Richard Harris Clarinets Jonathan Gunn Ixi Chen Benjamin Freimuth

Timpani Patrick Schleker Richard Jensen Percussion David Fishlock Richard Jensen Keyboards Michael Chertock

Orchestra Personnel Walter Zeschin Scott Mozlin Librarians Mary Judge Christina Eaton

cincinnati Opera Chorus Danielle Adams Tyler Alessi La’Shelle Q. Allen Simon Barrad Anthony Beck Brittany Benningfield Corey Don Bonar Melisa Bonetti Joy Burdette Tony Burdette John Carpenter Claude Cassion Ryan C. Connelly

Tatiana Davis Eric Paul DeForest Stefan Erik Egerstrom LaTanya M. Foster Justin Glaser Paola GonzĂĄlez Frank Gordon Ellen Graham Hillary Grobe Molly Hanes Melissa Harvey Andria Helm

Errik M. Hood Ernest C. Jackson, Jr. M. Andrew Jones Mark A. Kano Jacob Kincaide Daniel King Jaclyn Kleier Sarah Klopfenstein Sam Kreidenweis Tyler Samuel Lee Katy Lindhart Andrew Lovato Lauren McAllister

Christopher Brandon Morales James Onstad Allan Palacios-Chan Brett Pardue Nicolae Pop Michael E. Ratliff Will Reed Markel Reed Jessica Romelli Joseph Ryan Stacey Sands Marcus Shields

Jessie Shulman Nicole Spoltore Kevin Truax Matt Tschimperle Will Tvrdik Audrey Walstrom Jeffrey D. Wilkinson Michael Young Jonathan Zeng

Catacoustic Consort In La Calisto Baroque Triple Harp Elizabeth Motter Theorbo Michael Leopold

Archlute/Baroque Guitar David Walker

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Viola da Gamba/ Lirone Annalisa Pappano

Cornetto/Recorder Alexandra Opsahl Kiri Tollaksen

Harpsichord/ Chamber Organ Michael Unger

Cincinnati Boychoir and Friends in Carmen Mary Bond Kirsten Carle Ryan Devlin-Bergman Abby Dreith

Austin Emmons Ethan Glosby Ryan Hamilton Aiden Hubbard Cade Jenkins

Josiah Krodel Ryan Lally Dominic Martin Will Padgett Jerry Qiu

Mance Ranne Eric Riedel William Riggins Nathan Trajano Patrick Wells

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Dave Senske Renate Sheblessy Elena Tomassian Yana Tomassian Jim Waldfogle Lee Anne Waldfogle Charles Wilkinson Devon Williams Ronna Willis

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Supernumeraries Jennifer Allen Soren Andress Robert Beiring Betsi Brockmeier Calia Burdette Tatiana Carter Tim Carter Meredith Darrah Will Darrah

Bob Deering Malika Dinan Madison Fish Caryl Franke Jay Harriman Terry Hellman Tom Hix Clint Ibele Crystal Kendrick

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Anne and Allen Zaring III the appearance of erin wall the appearance of daniel okulitch

Jeannine and John Winkelmann, M.D.

Art Design Consultants/Litsa Spanos the appearance of thomas blondelle the appearance of Alexandra Schoeny

Anonymous

The Selnick Family, in memory of Anna Jo Selnick the appearance of Phillip Addis the appearance of Nathan Stark

Jane and Jon Votel

Pamela Spangler Reis and Richard Reis the appearance of Craig Irvin Support for alain gauthier, director

Ms. Joyce Elkus

Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn the appearance of Gabriel PrEisser

The Estate of Katherine H. Groll support for eric simonson, director

James Stapleton and Elizabeth Shaughnessy, M.D.

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production underwriters La Calisto

MAdame Butterfly

The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./ U.S. Bank Foundation

Larry and Beth Uhlenbrock

production and Artistic sponsors La Calisto

Madame Butterfly

production sponsor

production sponsor

Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack

Cathy and Tom Crain, in memory of Jean B. Tolles

performance sponsors

performance sponsors

Cincinnati Opera Guild

Huntington Bank

Robert and Carol Olson • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Huntington Bank

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support for maestro Ramón Tebar

Nydia C. Tranter support for maestro David Bates

Dorothy Anne Blatt the appearance of nathalie paulin

Marilyn Z. Ott the appearance of michael maniaci

Ryan L. Messer and James A. Musuraca the appearance of jennifer johnson cano

The Estate of Luba Dorman the appearance of Alexandra Deshorties

the appearance of maria luigia borsi

Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer the appearance of kelley o’connor

Mary Ann and John Boorn the appearance of shawn mathey

Sheila and Christopher Cole the appearance of roberto de candia

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine the appearance of steven cole

Arthur B. Casper

Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford

the appearance of Daniel Okulitch

support for Marc Verzatt, director

Art Design Consultants/Litsa Spanos

Kathy and Jon McCann

the appearance of andrew garland

Donna Hoffman Young Artist Scholarship Fund support for TEd Huffman, director

Cincinnati Opera Staff

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PNC supports those who make the world a more beautiful place.

That’s why we’re proud to sponsor the Cincinnati Opera. Because we Corporate knowand thatGovernment achievement isContributions an art form all its own.

Cincinnati Opera gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following corporations and government agencies that contributed to the 2014 Annual Fund.

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Hightowers Petroleum Company The Kroger Co. LPK Paycor Thompson Hine LLP Vintner Select

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($1,500 to $2,999) Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.

Boca Restaurant Group Boris Litwin Jewlers Burke, Inc. CRAVE eat well, LLC

Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza/Orchids at Palm Court Hixson Architecture Engineering Interiors Prime 47 RCF Group Saks Fifth Avenue Target Contributions from May 15, 2013 to May 12, 2014

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Artswave Partners A special thanks to everyone at the following partner companies for their support of the 2014 ArtsWave community campaign. You make Cincinnati amazing!

Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee

American Financial Group Cincinnati Bell

The Kroger Co.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center The Cincinnati Insurance Companies Convergys Corporation

Macy’s Ohio National Financial Services P&G

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Duke Energy The Farmer Family Foundation Fifth Third Bank Frisch’s Restaurants GE Aviation

PNC Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. U.S. Bank Western & Southern Financial Group

WE’VE BEEN PATRONS OF THE LOCAL ARTS SCENE FOR YEARS. NEARLY 150 OF THEM. We’re extremely proud to sponsor the Cincinnati Opera.

Your creativity and passion inspire all of us to try to shine as brightly as you. From all your fans at Huntington Bank, thank you.

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Our Loyal Corporate PArtners Cincinnati Opera recognizes the following companies for their ongoing philanthropic leadership.

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Since 2008

PNC Since 1982

Fath Properties Since 1999

Macy’s Since 1985

FRCH Design Worldwide Since 1999

Frost Brown Todd LLC Since 1990

Ohio National Financial Services Since 2001

Johnson Investment Counsel Since 1990

Seta Music Since 2004

Legg Mason Investment Counsel Since 1991

LPK Since 2005

P&G Since 1991

Chavez Properties Since 2006

Thompson Hine LLP Since 1994

Target Since 2007

Ross, Sinclaire & Associates, LLC Since 2010 Hixson Architecture Engineering Interiors Since 2011 Paycor Since 2011 The Kroger Co. Since 2012 University of Cincinnati Medical Center/UC Health Since 2012

U.S. Bank Since 1995

Corporate Sponsor Spotlight “At FRCH, we believe supporting arts institutions like Cincinnati Opera is essential to the life and prosperity of Cincinnati. The arts play a key role in helping to make Cincinnati a livable and vibrant community that attracts and retains talented and creative people. By adding richness and color to our days, complexity to our thought, and vibrancy to our civic life, the arts enrich our lives. FRCH is proud to support Cincinnati Opera and its work, creating Grand Opera that is second to none!”

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FRCH Design Worldwide Frost Brown Todd LLC Thompson Hine LLP outdoor entertainment sponsor

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Individual and Foundation Contributions Cincinnati Opera acknowledges with deep appreciation the leadership and generosity of the many individuals and foundations who have supported the Opera with contributions to the 2014 Annual Fund.

director’s circle ($25,000 and above)

Vicki and Peter Alpaugh, The Alpaugh Foundation Michael L. Cioffi and Rachael A. Rowe The Patricia A. Corbett Trust The Corbett Foundation Cathy and Tom Crain The Estate of Luba Dorman

The Estate of Louise Mr. and Mrs. John Earls Dieterle Nippert The John C. Griswold Foundation The Louise Dieterle Nippert Katherine H. Groll Charitable Musical Arts Fund Remainder Unitrust The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, The Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Murray and Robin Sinclaire Larry and Beth Uhlenbrock

inner circle

($12,000 to $24,999) John and Mary Ann Boorn Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Thomas W. Busse Charitable Fund Ms. Melanie M. Chavez and Mr. Jeremy S. Campbell Christ Church Cathedral Sheila and Christopher Cole The Charles H. Dater Foundation The Thomas J. Emery Memorial Harry and Linda Fath Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Barbara Gould and William J. Motto Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hasl

Don Hoffman Pamela Spangler Reis and The Manuel D. & Rhoda Richard Reis Mayerson Foundation Litsa and Van Spanos/Art Design Kathy and Jon McCann Consultants Mr. Evans J. Mirageas and Elizabeth M. Stites and Mr. Thomas M. Dreeze Kevin C. Randall Margaret Ohanian Trust Brett Stover and Christopher Robert and Carol Olson Hassall, Ph.D. Joseph A. and Susan Pichler Fund* Dr. and Mrs. John M. Tew, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Santen Nydia C. Tranter Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and The Stephen H. Wilder Foundation Jacqueline M. Mack Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Zaring III

corbett society ($6,000 to $11,999)

Frank and Janet Andress Family Fund* Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel Christopher and Annie Baucom Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Mary M. Bergstein Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Dorothy Anne Blatt Drs. Thomas and Barbara Boat Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Busher Arthur B. Casper and Beverly Oyler Geraldine V. Chavez Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Mr. Anthony Condia Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Eric and Jennifer Dauer Dr. Olga G. Duarte Ms. Joyce Elkus

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Kimmel Dr. James D. Faulkner Dr. Charles Kuntz IV Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald Mr. Karl Kusturok The Fleischmann Foundation Susan and Richard Lauf, Ph.D. Cynthia J. Goodman, Ph.D. Dr. Margaret M. LeMasters Madeleine H. Gordon Joanie and Bill Lotts Elizabeth Kathman Grubow and Mandare Foundation Jerry Kathman Leonard and Sherie Marek Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Markstein Family Fund Ms. Lisa M. Hillenbrand Mayberry Foundaiton Ms. Edita Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Gary “Doc” Huffman Ms. Julia B. Meister Ryan L. Messer and Mr. Gordon Hullar and James A. Musuraca Ms. Doris Holzheimer Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Jones The Estate of Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan Monica L. Newby, D.D.S. Marilyn Z. Ott Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine Dr. Sid Khosla and Mrs. Heather Mr. and Mrs. David Reichert Mrs. George Rieveschl, Jr. Vogt-Khosla

Contributions from May 15, 2013 to May 12, 2014

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*Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

corbett society cont’d ($6,000 to $11,999)

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. James Stapleton and Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco Dr. Elizabeth Shaughnessy The Robert C. & Adele R. Schiff Dr. Judith K. Stein and Mr. Steven N. Stein Foundation Dr. Robert Toltzis and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schlotman Catharina Toltzis, Ph.D. Ann Gallagher Schoen Mr. and Mrs. Jon H. Votel Mr. and Mrs. Michael Selker

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Walker Mrs. Phyllis J. Weston Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis Jeannine Winkelmann and John Winkelmann, M.D. Shelby O. Wood Dr. and Mrs. Mario Zuccarello

ambassadors society ($3,000 to $5,999)

Mrs. Martha G. Anness Mr. Ronald T. Bates Mr. Allan Bernard Chris and Karen Bowman Mrs. Abraham S. Braude Charlin and Peter Briggs Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Canarie A.K. and Gibby Carey Chris and Vivienne Carlson Miss Norma L. Clark Peter G. Courlas Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Crosset Family Fund* Mr. Daniel B. Cunningham and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mrs. Vivian A. Dobur Mrs. Betty M. Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edelman

Ms. Ann Ellison Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Graham Mrs. Frederick Haffner Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Heidt, Jr. David C. Herriman Lois and Dick Jolson, M.D. Mr. Thomas Kellerman and Mrs. Barbara Hummel Dr. David J. Kissel Kathleen Laurin-Martin and Joseph C. Martin Ms. Carol A. Lebourveau Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Lechleiter Levin Family Foundation Adele and Thomas Lippert Fund* Dr. and Mrs. Edward E. Loftspring

Al and Mary J. López The John L. Magro Artist Development Fund Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Merritt Stanley and Mary Morton Fund* Dr. and Mrs. James J. Nordlund Keely Paul Cass and Glenn Plott Robison Family Foundation Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Mr. Jack and Dr. Morleen Rouse Mr. John Sawyer Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Mr. and Mrs. William A. Starr Ellen and Ray van der Horst Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Fund* Mr. and Mrs. John Wyant

advocates society ($1,500 to $2,999)

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bavaria Rosemary and Frank Bloom Dr. Walter Bruyninckx and Dr. Anne-Marie B. Blancquaert Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan III Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Castleberry Mr. and Mrs. Evan Corbett Mr. and Mrs. Terry Crilley Mrs. Jodelle S. Crosset Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Dolfini Dr. and Mrs. William Drew Dr. and Mrs. Stewart B. Dunsker Mrs. Philip O. Geier Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Giannella

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius W. Hauck Mr. and Mrs. Horst Hehmann Mrs. Anne P. Heldman Mr. and Mrs. David C. Horn Mr. and Mrs. W.M. James Mr. David Lazarus The LeBlond Foundation Dr. Janet P. McDaniel Don and Marji Mendelsohn Jayne Menke Ms. Marianne Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Issam Minkarah Sally A. More Mary Lou Motl Mr. and Mrs. John T. Osterman The PATS Fund

Mr. Phillip Potter Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Ray III Mrs. Melody Sawyer Richardson James Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger Mr. and Mrs. William Steenken Molly Stehn and James Cho Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Stradling, Jr. The Summerhouse Fund* Ms. Janis Sutton Mr. Garry Terrell and Ms. Rebecca Terrell Mrs. Carol S. Thaman Dick and Jane Tuten Jayde Kief Ulrich Ms. Michelle Weil

*Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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Patron

($750 to $1,499) Anonymous (3) Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin Asif Alikhan Mr. Tony Alper Gay Bain Aine Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bardes Mr. David Bear Kathy and Steve Biedenbach Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Boden Dr. Frederick Brockmeier and Dr. April Laskey Mr. Terrence M. Crawford Mrs. Dianne Dunkelman Dr. and Mrs. William J. Faulkner Ms. Rachel S. Ferguson Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Mr. and Mrs. Park W. Gast Shannon M. Glass The Gumbleton Family Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Heard Julia and Stephen Hightower II Lindsay Holt Mr. David Huberfield John and Mary Ellyn Hutton Sarajane and Richard King Bo-Kyung and Kevin Kirby Mr. Peter E. Koenig

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Evelyn and Fred Lang Mr. and Mrs. Nick Lanni Janice Liebenberg and Andy Holzhauser Drs. Lynn and Lizbie Lin Drs. Lawrence and Joan Linder Little Britain House Tea Room Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lundgren Ashley and Tee Maguire Alan L. Margulies and Gale D. Snoddy Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Marks Rob P. Mecklenborg, Jr. Martha and David Millett Chris and Molly Milligan William L. Montague and Kelly L. Wittich Mrs. Malcolm Myers Ms. Jacqueline C. Neumann Mr. and Mrs. James Neumeister Mr. and Mrs. Bruce F. Nutley Peter O’Shea and Gwen Dobos Mr. Maurice E. Oshry John and Francie Pepper Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Randolph Mr. Robert E. Reid The August A. Rendigs, Jr. Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Riser Ms. Barbara Robb David Sanders Megan Selnick Dr. and Mrs. George T. Shybut Dr. Roger and Margaret Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ethan B. Stanley II Mr. Nicholas Steinert Amy Stier and Jef Brown Sullivan Memorial Fund Ms. Mary Reis Sullivan Mr. Andrew E. Sweeny, Jr. Dr. John Tan Dr. Alan and Shelley Tarshis Mr. and Mrs. G. Adrian Thompson Sneja and Raffi Tomassian Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Torre Ms. Tina M. Varghese Mike and Patti Veroni Mr. and Mrs. Chris Virgulak Ginger and David Warner Gene M. and Anne Warrington Wilson Mrs. Andrea K. Wiot Mr. and Mrs. James Woltermann John M. Yacher Mr. G. Sterling Zinsmeyer and Mr. Louis Bixenman

developer ($300 to $749)

Dr. and Mrs. Todd Abruzzo Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Alexander, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Allen Ms. Wendy Allinsmith Mr. and Mrs. Louis Andrews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Ansel Mrs. Norita D. Aplin and Mr. Stanley H. Ragle Anne S. Arenstein and Richard Sarason Ms. Kathryn E. Ashton Ms. Barbara Autry Mr. and Mrs. Allan J. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Todd Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bankston

Mr. Terence M. Barron Mr. and Mrs. William D. Baskett III Mr. Donald Beck and Lawrence E. Eynon, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bedree Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bentley Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W. Birckhead Mr. David Brashear Lois and Joseph Brenner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Brinker Ms. Betsi Brockmeier Mr. Daniel Brown and Mr. Mark Haggard Ms. Rebecca S. Brown Donald L. and Kathleen F. Burns Dr. Onassis Caneris

Contributions from May 15, 2013 to May 12, 2014

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Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Chabut Mrs. Carole Charleville Mr. and Mrs. Paul Chellgren Mr. and Mrs. George Croog Bev and Bob Croskery Ms. Sonia Daoud Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Davidow Mrs. Thomas E. Davidson Mrs. William J. Deupree, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew DeWitt Mr. and Mrs. Jay Dickinson Ms. Anne Elkins Didrichsen Ms. Joanna Doerner Darin S. Dugan Mrs. John C. Dupree Ren and Cristina Egbert

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developer Cont’d ($300 to $749)

Edward and Susan Ewing James and Mary Day Fewlass Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Fink Ms. Nancy Finke Mr. Carl R. Fiora Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Steve Fisk Mr. Kingston Fletcher Dr. Todd Florin and Mrs. Kemper Florin Mr. and Mrs. Ashley L. Ford Ms. Patricia C. Friedersdorf Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gaddes Mr. and Mrs. James Gallagher Dr. Sheila C. Gelman Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Goetz Alan and Bette Griffith Mr. Thomas L. Guidugli, Jr. Mr. Kurt Hanscom Mr. Grant Hesser Mr. Roger D. Hickman Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Holzwarth Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Horne Mr. and Mrs. Tom Horwitz Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Hughes Mrs. Thomas Huheey Ms. Spencer Ingerson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Murray S. Jaffe Mrs. James C. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. H. Eric Johnson The Honorable Nathaniel Jones Ms. Arleene Keller Mr. Arthur Kerr, Jr. Mrs. Zizi Khodadad Mr. Patrick M. Korb Dr. Renu Kotwal and Mr. Rajbir Minhas Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Kreider Ms. Kate Kreimer Ms. Carol Kruse Dr. Robert Krzeski and Dr. Maria A. Czyzyk-Krzeski Mr. Bruce A. Lafferre Mr. Peter Laffoon and Mr. John Fowler Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Lafley Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lambert

Dean Peter Landgren and Mrs. Judith Schonbach Landgren Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lazzari Ms. Kristan Lenning Mr. Richard Lesueur Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Louis Levin Rev. and Mrs. Damon Lynch, Jr. Mr. Michael J. Maloney Mr. David L. Martin Drs. Arti and Scott Masturzo Raymond and Madelynn Matlock Ms. Louise McDermott Jack W. McKee Dr. Charles T. Mehlman and Dr. Elsira M. Pina Mr. and Mrs. James P. Metzger Mr. and Mrs. David S. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. William D. Meyer Jim and Linda Miller Mrs. James Monroe Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Murdock Mr. and Mrs. Ahid Nashif Dr. and Mrs. Ashraf Nassef Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Neyer, Sr. Ms. Betsy Neyer and Ms. Amy Simmons Dr. and Mrs. Hiroshi Nishiyama Mr. John Noelcke Marilyn J. and Jack D. Osborn* Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Otero Mr. and Mrs. Brant Owens Dr. Carl Parrott, Jr., and Dr. Molly Katz Drs. Karin and Frank Pendle Dr. and Mrs. Myles Pensak Ms. Marilyn W. Peters Mr. Robert W. Peterson and Mr. William S. Filbrun Mr. and Mrs. Michael Porte Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Pray Mr. and Mrs. William Price Mr. and Mrs. Armand Re Ms. Betsy Resler Ms. Gale Z. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinson Dr. and Mrs. John J. Robinson, Jr. Solveiga Rush Ms. Karen Sacksteder

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sambrooks Ms. Lauren Scharf Cindy Scheets Dr. Helmut F. Schellhas Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Schneck Kenneth C. Schonberg and Deborah Schultz Mrs. Zell J. Schulman Jeffrey Seaman Mrs. William R. Seaman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Segal Dr. Ted Shlechter and Rae Shlechter Ms. Louise Shouse Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Simon Ms. Carol E. Singer Ms. Adrienne A. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard Snyder Mr. Eric Söderlund and Mr. Matthew E. Shad Mr. and Mrs. William V. Solano Dr. and Mrs. Glen D. Solomon Mr. and Mrs. Phillip M. Sparkes Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Sprigg Dr. and Mrs. Howard Starnbach Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Ms. Tricia Suit and Mr. Eric Appleby Katie and Jeff Syroney Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Szarwark Mr. and Mrs. Carlos R. Teran Mr. Brian L. Tiffany and Mr. Jerry Ewers Beverly Tonkens-VanGrov and Sherman VanGrov Mrs. Marcella G. Trice Ms. Maria Troyano Mrs. John R. VanWye Mr. Cedric W. Vogel Carla D. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Ward Dr. Robert Warden and Dr. Antoinette Pragalos Robert J. Watkins and Helen P. Watkins Stephan Weigle and Carol Turni Mr. and Mrs. Curt Wilhelm Ms. Judith A. Wittlin Mrs. Thomas O. Youtsey, Jr.

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Opera Memories In the 1990 film Pretty Woman, Richard Gere says to Julia Roberts, “People’s reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme: they either love it, or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it.

If they don’t, they may learn to love it, but it will never become part of their soul.” To our long-time subscribers, thank you for always loving the Opera. We celebrate you.

“My mother took me to my first opera at the Zoo for my 11th birthday. It was Aida—and it was gangbusters! I remember the long line of zoo animals for the triumphal entry and the flamingos singing backup to the soprano.”

–Sandra Riegler, M.D., subscribing since 1958

“The first time we took our 10-year-old grandson to the opera, he sat focused the entire time and told us that this was “far more exciting than going to the movies.”

–Mr. Gordon Hullar and Ms. Doris Holzheimer, subscribing since 2000

“Coming to the Zoo for opera as a teen, I remember Roberta Peters stopping a performance and mimicking the animals.

All joined in for a few minutes, and then the opera continued.”

–Mr. and Mrs. David Donnett, subscribing since 1970

“I remember fondly Opera at the Zoo, but appreciate greatly our present productions at beautiful Music Hall. Also I remember Risë Stevens as Carmen.”

–Ms. Herta L. Moore, subscribing since 1954

“Our first dates were attending the 1980 operas. We fell in love and got married. More than three decades later, we are still married, still in love, and still attending Cincinnati Opera.”

–Mr. James M. Rubenstein and Ms. Bernadette L. Unger, subscribing since 1980

“My parents introduced opera to their six children and grandchildren. Their joy and love of opera is being passed on because of their interest in sharing this great art form. The history and beauty of Music Hall makes these events even more special and memorable.”

–Ms. Elizabeth Maxwell, subscribing since 1990

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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.

We’ve done our best to share accurate information in the listings below, but we acknowledge that our record-keeping has been imperfect over our 94-year history. If you are listed here but in an incorrect category–or, if your name should be listed but is missing–please accept our sincere apologies, and let us know. You can send us an email anytime to subscribers@cincinnatiopera.org, or call us at (513) 768-5520. Thank you.

50 or more years Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams Barbara and Dick Allen Mrs. Mary M. Bergstein Glenda and Malcolm Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. John T. Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Colker The Corbett Foundation Dr. Roger G. Giesel

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius W. Hauck Mr. Charles M. Judd Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laufman Mr. J. Michael Meretta Ms. Herta L. Moore Mr. Maurice E. Oshry Mr. and Mrs. Michael Porte Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Randolph

Dr. Sandra L. Riegler Mrs. Lois P. Rust Mrs. Dorothy J. Sciarra Mrs. William R. Seaman Mrs. James A. Sexton Mr. and Mrs. William Sontag Drs. Maria and Ivan Tuskan Mr. and Mrs. E. Dieter van der Bent

45 to 49 years Donald L. and Kathleen F. Burns Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley L. Ford

Mel and John Kuempel Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch

Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Mrs. Jacqueline M. Mack

40 to 44 years Mr. Michael A. Battersby Ms. Dorothy A. Blatt Mr. David Brashear Mrs. Abraham S. Braude Ms. Evelyn Brod Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwell Peter G. Courlas Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Cox Mrs. William J. Deupree, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rupert A. Doan Mrs. Vivian A. Dobur Mr. and Mrs. David Donnett Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Drill Mrs. Betty M. Duncan Dr. and Mrs. Philip Edlin Ms. Ann Ellison Ms. Gael T. Fischer Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III

Kenneth J. Furrier Mr. Louis F. Gastright, Jr. Ms. Lois Ann Gribler Mr. William Hackman Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Dr. Henry J. Heimlich Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Hunt, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Murray S. Jaffe Mrs. James C. Johnson Mr. Douglas Kennedy Dr. Lawrence H. Linder and Dr. Joan Linder Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lundgren Mr. William S. Magnus Mr. Carl G. Marquette, Jr. The Meister Family Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Neyer, Sr. Ms. Mary Ellen O’Connor Marilyn Z. Ott

Mrs. George Rieveschl, Jr. Erich and Rita Ringel Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Santen Mrs. Charles Schulenberg Mrs. Zell J. Schulman Ms. Janet Schultz Dr. William B. Selnick Mr. Richard I. Sininger Mr. Robert J. Spitznagel Mrs. Lois Staubitz Mr. Robert Patton Swaim Dr. and Mrs. John M. Tew, Jr. Mrs. Carol S. Thaman Dick and Jane Tuten Mrs. Joanne W. Veith Mr. Michael L. Walton Mrs. Andrea K. Wiot Dr. and Mrs. Foster Wygant

35 to 39 years Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel Ms. Mary Lou Aufmann Mr. Michael R. Bachmann Ms. Henrietta Barlag Mr. Donald Beck and Dr. Lawrence E. Eynon Mr. Jim Bridgeland

A.K. and Gibby Carey Clark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co. Ms. Diane Danemayer Ms. Anne Elkins Didrichsen Mr. William R. Geiler, Jr., and Mrs. Nancy Geiler

Mr. William J. Hahn and Dr. George I. Colombel Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Hamilton The Honorable and Mrs. Dennis S. Helmick Mr. William A. Herring

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35 to 39 years Cont’D Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Mr. Barry Lapidus Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Larkin Mr. and Mrs. Richard Laskey Mrs. John T. Lawrence, Jr. Ms. Dolly Levine Mr. Kenneth E. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. John J. McLaughlin Ms. Marianne Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Issam Minkarah Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Moravec

Dr. and Mrs. Hiroshi Nishiyama Mr. Charles Perin Mr. Robert W. Peterson and Mr. William S. Filbrun Ms. Janet W. Prewitt Dr. Joan F. Reckseit Mr. Robert E. Reid Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Ms. Jeanette Rost Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco

Jeffrey Seaman Mrs. Kurt Seybold Mrs. Elaine Spagnolo Mr. and Mrs. Phillip A. Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Stradling, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Susskind Nydia C. Tranter Mrs. N. Beverley Tucker Mr. Wayne E. Vincent Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward Mr. Charles L. Wilhelm

30 to 34 years Paule S. Asch, Ph.D. Ms. Mary Auer Dr. and Mrs. James P. Baden Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Mr. Vincent Bolling, Jr. Mr. Neil Bortz Mr. and Mrs. James J. Brady Mrs. Albert Brinn Mr. Arthur B. Casper Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Cavanaugh Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Chabut Mr. and Mrs. William Chang Mr. and Mrs. John Cover Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dyson Dr. and Mrs. Paul Esposito Dr. and Mrs. William J. Faulkner Ms. Dorothy Ann Feldis Mr. Kingston Fletcher Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Fudge

Mrs. Kenneth M. Gettelman Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Giannella Ms. Deborah R. Grayson Mr. and Mrs. Horst Hehmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Holzwarth Mr. William Kredentser Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Kreider Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kuntz Mrs. Marion F. Levy Ms. Catherine A. McGraw Ms. Suzanne Morrissey Dr. and Mrs. James J. Nordlund Ms. Rosemary Novelli Ms. Lilian Pagani Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Ms. Mary L. Reardon Mr. and Mrs. David Reichert Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rice, Jr. James Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger

Mr. Richard M. Sacksteder and Mr. Victor J. Canfield Ms. Susan S. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. James E. Schwab Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Segal Dr. and Mrs. John C. Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Ethan B. Stanley II Mr. and Mrs. William Strubbe Dr. Sally Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Thomas, Jr. Mrs. J. S. Thornton Miss Arlene A. Thorwarth Mrs. Marcella G. Trice Nancy F. Walker Ms. Karen Webb Dr. Scottie Weiss Jim and Esther Wright Mr. and Mrs. John M. Zoller

25 to 29 years Mrs. Barbara Aberlin Dr. Emmit F. Ackdoe Mr. John F. Baer Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Bavaria Lois and Joseph Brenner Mrs. Cherylann D. Brinkman Ms. Rebecca S. Brown Mr. J. Robert Chambers Mrs. Carole Charleville Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chartock Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Geraldine V. Chavez Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Dolfini Mrs. Charles England Ms. Alice Fegelman and Dr. Leo H. Munick Ms. Donna Foust Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Garrison Mr. and Mrs. Park W. Gast Ms. Orpha A. Gatch Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Gehrig Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gerson Dr. Donald W. Good Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Goodman

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Mr. Gerald S. Greenberg and Ms. Pamela Meyers Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Mrs. Robert F. Hartkemeier Ms. Nancy C. Helwig Don Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Horne Mrs. James Hsu John and Mary Ellyn Hutton Mr. Isaiah Hyman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. James Mrs. Patricia L. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Alex Keller Mr. Daryl E. Koebcke Mr. Patrick M. Korb Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Kupferle Susan and Richard Lauf, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. David Lemmon Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lichtenberger Eric D. Louden Ms. Vicky Mary Mrs. Jane Master Mr. George E. Menges Mr. and Mrs. William P. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Pichler

Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Rolf Dr. Elaine Y. Rosin Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. William T. Sena, Sr. Mr. Michael Slupski and Dr. Barbara Grajewski Mr. Andrew D. Smith Sandra and Henry Spitz Dr. Judith K. Stein and Mr. Steven N. Stein Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Mr. Norman J. Thomas Dr. Raymond J. Timmerman Ellen and Ray van der Horst Mrs. John R. VanWye Mr. Arnold Wasserman Robert J. Watkins and Helen P. Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Wellington Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Winkler Miss Elizabeth Wohlgemuth Ms. Susan Wulsin Mrs. Karen Zollett

20 to 24 years Ms. Sandy Adams Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Andrews, Jr. Mr. Gary J. Anglin Mr. and Mrs. William Appleton Reverend Christopher R. Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. St. John Bain Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bankston Mr. Thomas Baumann Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dr. Alfred J. Berger Drs. Thomas and Barbara Boat Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Boden Mr. and Mrs. David Brewer Charlin and Peter Briggs Dr. Walter Bruyninckx and Dr. Anne-Marie B. Blancquaert Mr. Nicholas P. Ciafardini Miss Norma L. Clark Sheila and Christopher Cole Cathy and Tom Crain Dr. Alvin H. and Mrs. Alva Jean Crawford Mr. and Mrs. George Croog Mrs. Jodelle S. Crosset Ms. Patricia Culley Mr. Daniel B. Cunningham and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mr. Stephen Dana Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dudero Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Dunsker Dr. Leslie R. Dye Mr. and 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 Mr. Richard D. Gegner Janelle and Michael Gelfand Dr. Sheila C. Gelman and Dr. David Greenblatt Dr. and Mrs. Fredrick Gensler Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Good Judge and Mrs. Robert H. Gorman Mr. R. McDonald Gray Dr. Ralph A. Gruppo Mrs. Frederick Haffner Ms. Kathleen M. Hammons

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harcourt Ms. Betty Harris Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Heard Mr. Roger D. Hickman Mr. and Mrs. David C. Horn Dr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Johnston Ms. Brenda Jones The Honorable Nathaniel Jones Ms. Marlene Kessler Mr. and Mrs. William G. Kief Mrs. Mary Anne Kingery Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Kreider Evelyn and Fred Lang Dr. and Mrs. Howard Leftwich Mrs. Gail Lennig Adele and Thomas Lippert Dr. Jennifer M. H. Loggie Al and Mary L贸pez Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lotts Mr. and Mrs. Luke Lovell Ms. Kathryn Maier Mr. Brent Manley Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Marks Dr. William J. Martin III and Mrs. Joyce Martin, J.D., CFP Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Matlock Mr. and Mrs. Don Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. James E. McCue Dr. and Mrs. Frank McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Lon Mendelsohn Jim and Linda Miller Mr. and Mrs. R. William Mischler Mrs. Ivan S. Misrach Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Morton Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mouch Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Mystkowski Ms. Valerie Newell and Mr. Timothy Smith Northlich Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Olson Mr. and Mrs. John T. Osterman Mr. Charles Parsons Dr. and Mrs. Alter G. Peerless Mr. John T. Price Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raterman Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Reid Mr. and Mrs. Philip Remmel Mr. William Renwick

Mrs. Melody Sawyer Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinson Reverend David Robisch Ms. Lauren Scharf Ann and Jerry Schoen Mr. Joseph Schoettmer Kenneth C. Schonberg and Deborah Schultz Mr. John T. Schreiber and Ms. Claire E. Fessler Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schulhoff Mr. and Mrs. David Schwieterman Dr. and Mrs. Carl M. Sedacca Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Sheakley Ms. Sarah Shell Mr. Arthur Shone Dr. and Mrs. George T. Shybut Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Dr. and Mrs. Roger D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Sommerfield Ms. Lois C. Spahn Mr. James D. Stapleton and Dr. Elizabeth A. Shaughnessy Dr. and Mrs. Howard Starnbach Mr. Brett Stover and Christopher Hassall, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. John Striker Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Swanson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Szucs Ms. Bernadette Tallarico Mr. Garry Terrell and Ms. Rebecca Terrell Beverly Tonkens-VanGrov and Sherman VanGrov Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Uhlenbrock Ms. Jane Wakerman Mr. and Mrs. David W. Warner Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Weinberg Ms. Anne M. Werner Mrs. Phyllis J. Weston Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Whitlatch Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis Reverend Barry Windholtz Judge and Mrs. William H. Wolff, Jr. Shelby O. Wood John M. Yacher Dr. Richard Young

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One attendee describes it as the “feel-good event of the year.� Begun in 2006, Opera Goes to Church and now also Opera Goes to Temple have become signature programs for Cincinnati Opera, gaining attention both locally and nationally. The heart of the program is a partnership between the Opera and a local congregation. And the result is always a standing-room-only, joy-filled event.

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Cincinnati Opera’s Opera Outbound Beyond the Stage. In Your Community.

In addition to our touring shows, Opera Raps continue to enhance our audience’s familiarity with each of our mainstage operas.

Speakers for the 2014 season have included Dean Regas of the Cincinnati Observatory, Opera 101 author Fred Plotkin, Artistic Director Evans Mirageas, and Managing Director Chris Milligan. Sign up for email announcements about upcoming events on our website.

A student at Springer School learned all about opera through our Musician-in-Residence in the winter of 2013.

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hrough its touring programs, Cincinnati Opera reaches students and adults in our community, providing memorable, moving, and extraordinary experiences. This year, our Let’s Cook Up An Opera and Carmen Redux tours were seen by nearly 8,000 people, many experiencing opera for the first time.

We also initiated two new partnerships with MYCincinnati, a free youth orchestra program, and with COR Music Project, an in-school music program. These exciting collaborations made it possible for students to actively participate in our Carmen Redux performances in March 2014. At the Dunham Arts Center, the MYCincinnati Orchestra accompanied our singers on stage. Later, we visited Purcell Marian High School, where the choral students from COR Music Project opened with the Children’s Chorus from Carmen and joined in on the Habanera, supporting our Carmen as she sang. The whole school was in attendance.

To learn more about Cincinnati Opera in your community, visit www.cincinnatiopera.org.

The young boy was wheelchair-bound, his arms and legs incapable of bearing any weight. A few minutes into our performance of Let’s Cook Up An Opera, the boy’s fellow students were giggling and clapping. But he continued to stare straight ahead, unfazed by the performance in front of him. Our show continued, and suddenly, as the singers launched into the first musical selection— the “Papageno-Papagena” duet from The Magic Flute, I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye. I turned my gaze and saw that the young boy’s right hand was extended up near his head, and he was beating in time to the music.

For the remainder of the show, every time we began another musical excerpt, his hand would fly up—as if to offer a high five—and remain pulsing as the music continued. I may never know just how much this young boy actually understood, but what I do know is this: somewhere deep in his being, something stirred, and it was the music that touched him. I’m inspired by this experience every day as we work to create great arts experiences that bring joy and make connections between the people of our community.

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From the Guild President It has been a privilege and a pleasure to serve as President of the Cincinnati Opera Guild, and to work with its dedicated staff. The Guild has many bright, capable members who are poised to take the organization to greater heights.

The Guild is the volunteer branch of the Opera Family. Our function is to support the staff, and to be ambassadors in the community. To this end, you may find us at showings of opera performances at movie Eleanor Minkarah theaters, where we sometimes hand out brochures. Some of us serve as mentors for our new members. All of us are thrilled each year when the casts of our summer productions come to town, and partake of the Guild potluck brunch. It gives us a chance to meet the singers and dancers, as well as the backstage artists. When it is show time, you may spy some of us on stage serving as “supers” in the operas.

Other volunteers take singers into elementary schools and community centers, introducing students and adults to the fun of live performances. This year’s production of Carmen Redux reached over four thousand people. Opera Raps are also part of our support of Outbound programming. These informal gatherings are conducted by knowledgeable speakers who acquaint us with the story behind the season’s offerings. They are free and open to the public.

But, it is not just work. In addition to learning about the production challenges of mounting an opera, we have happy hours before many Opera Raps, share dinner after opera at the movies, and enjoy many social events in the company of other music lovers.

You are welcome to join us in supporting the brilliant work of Cincinnati Opera. These outstanding performances are possible only with the cooperation of all branches of the Opera family. Please help us keep the tradition of excellence alive. Information about membership in the Guild is available in the lobby, on the Cincinnati Opera website, or by calling me at (513) 871-8252.

Enjoy the season,

Eleanor C. Minkarah President, Cincinnati Opera Guild

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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. For over half a century, their activities have promoted awareness, generated public interest in the company, and deepened understanding of the art form. They bring many forms of expertise to advance the organization, especially education and outreach. 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.

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Corbett Opera Fusion and Opera Fusion: New Works

Cincinnati Opera’s 2013 production of Galileo Galilei featured several CCM students and alumni.

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y all measures, the Opera Fusion program has been very successful.

Thanks to the Corbett Foundation, in the past seven years, Opera Fusion has grown from a groundbreaking experimental program focused on bringing University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music students to the Cincinnati Opera stage, to being established as a nationally-recognized collaboration which is advancing the operatic art form. The program has also become a cornerstone of operations at Cincinnati Opera, as well as an important recruitment tool for the Opera Department at CCM.

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Mellon Foundation, Opera Fusion expanded in 2011 to include Opera Fusion: New Works, a unique incubator for the creation and development of new works within the American opera repertoire. The program allows CCM students to fill integral roles in the development of new American operas.

The third Opera Fusion: New Works project, Morning Star by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist William M. Hoffman, will premiere at Cincinnati Opera in 2015. The cast of Morning Star will include many CCM artists who participated in the workshop, and CCM alumnus Christopher Allen will conduct.

2013-2014 Corbett Opera Fusion and Opera Fusion: New Works Participants Danielle Adams Tyler Alessi Simon Barrad Tony Beck Omer Ben-Seadia Melisa Bonetti Joy Burdette Tony Burdette Jeff Byrnes Adria Caffaro Marco Cammarota Claude Cassion David A. Centers Jung-Hyun Cho

Michael Ciavaglia Ryan Connelly Daniel Cuomo Leah de Gruyl Stefan Egerstrom Eleni Franck Mark Gibson Paola GonzĂĄlez Hillary Grobe Constance Grubbs Robin Guarino Sarah Beth Hall Molly Hanes Melissa Harvey

Andria Helm Hannah Holthaus Hayley Hunt Martin Andrew Jones Erin Keesy Elena Kholodova Jacob Kincaide Joseph Lattanzi Talya Lieberman Andrew Lovato Lauren McAllister Conner McDonald Brandon Morales James Onstad

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

In honor of Peter and Vicki Alpaugh and Jane and Jon Votel Andrew E. Sweeny, Jr.

In honor of Rob Cross and Susan Edelen’s marriage Samantha and Jonathan Fuchs

In honor of Eleanor and Sam Minkarah David A. Hirsch

In honor of Patty Beggs and her excellent staff Ginny and John Cover

In honor of Dan Cunningham’s birthday Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D.

In honor of Patty Beggs Ellen and Ray van der Horst

In honor of Vivian Dobur Patrick M. Korb

In honor of Cathy Crain’s Business Courier Outstanding Director Award Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D.

In honor of Dr. Olga Duarte Julie and Robert Heidt, Jr., M.D.

In honor of the marriage of Evans Mirageas and Thomas Dreeze Dorothy Anne Blatt Leslie and James Fitzgerald Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Deb Jackson Susan and Rich Lauf Steven Pearthree Carol Walker Jeannine and John Winkelmann, M.D.

In honor of Cathy Crain’s birthday Vicki and Peter Alpaugh Paule Asch, Ph.D. Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Charlin and Peter Briggs Nancy Clagett Daniel B. Cunningham and Margaret G. Cunningham, M.D. Leslie and James Fitzgerald Lissa Urriquia Gapultos and Dante Gapultos III Mary and Peter Graham Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Deb Jackson Susan and Rich Lauf Jacqueline M. Mack and Ted Silberstein, M.D. Evans J. Mirageas and Thomas M. Dreeze Marilyn Z. Ott Dianne and David Rosenberg Nancy and Edward Rosenthal Sneja and Raffi Tomassian Ellen and Ray van der Horst In honor of Cathy Crain’s graduation Mona and Dick Kerstine, M.D. In honor of Dr. Alvin Crawford’s Great Living Cincinnatian Award Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S.

In honor of Don Beck and Larry Eynon Dorothy Anne Blatt

In honor of Evans Mirageas speaking at the Deupree House Nancy Clagett

In honor of Dorothy Hines’s birthday Friends of Dorothy Hines In honor of Don and Donna Hoffman Sneja and Raffi Tomassian In honor of Doc and Milly Huffman Philip Johnson In honor of Dr. Charles Kuntz IV Jeffrey Holtz Marla and Frederick Smith In honor of Jacqueline M. Mack’s birthday Mona and Dick Kerstine, M.D.

In honor of Jimmy Musuraca and Ryan Messer G. Sterling Zinsmeyer and Louis Bixenman In honor of the Board and CEO Group of Ohio National Milly and Doc Huffman In honor of the Opera Staff Paule Asch, Ph.D. In honor of Dr. Harel Rachovitsky Julie and Robert Heidt, Jr., M.D.

In honor of The John L. Magro Foundation Sally and John Heckscher

In honor of Pamela Spangler’s birthday Linda and Jim Miller

In honor of Ryan Messer’s birthday Stephen Eadicicco and Bradley Higginbotham Matthew Hall Nate Moster and Chuck Knippen Eric Koren Scott Taylor and Chad Nielson

In honor of Dieter and Ilse van der Bent Sharon Denight

In honor of Marianne Meyers Mary Lee Schaffer

In honor of Mike Veroni’s Business Courier CFO of the Year Nomination Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D.

Contributions from May 15, 2013 to May 12, 2014

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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 Roger Adams and Tim Carl Stage Junk Merchant

In memory of Gilbert and Virginia Croskery Bev and Bob Croskery

In memory of Sylvia Benjamin Sidney and Robert Anning Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Tollie Chavis Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Joyce and Armand Re Martha Seaman Linda and James Shad

In memory of Frank Davis Nancy and James McCue Nancylee and Robert Preston, M.D. Susan Thompson

In memory of Jane Bernard Jane and Lawrence Bennett Anne and Edward Byrdy, Jr. Hildred and Robert Clayton Sandra L. Dollriehs Ethel and Park Gast Ann and John Headley Cydny and Matthew Holt Nancy Holterhoff Angela and Henry Horne Julie Inskeep and Bobby Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Inskeep Patricia Leo Karen and Douglas Tang A. Richard Thomas In memory of Peggy Bridgeland Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. In memory of Frederick Carey Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Don Hoffman Marjorie and Lawrence Kyte, Jr. In memory of Lorraine Newlin Clay Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Denise Colbert Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Don Hoffman Patrick M. Korb Nancy and Edward Rosenthal In memory of Sorin Crainic Annette and Jean-Robert de Cavel

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In memory of Peter Diamond Jocelynne Jason Chris and Tom Marks

In memory of Irene Grubow Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Tina and Georges Feghali Judy Fightmaster Beverly Okada In memory of Pauline Haverkos Emma J. Haverkos Shirley and William Oswald

In memory of Donna Hoffman Janet and Frank Andress Paule Asch, Ph.D. Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel In memory of Maureen Dillon Frances and Thomas Bankston Julie and Khosrow Alamin, M.D. Mary and William Baskett Paule Asch, Ph.D. Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Lois and Joseph Brenner Marilyn and John Braun Ginny and Jack Cover Lois and Joseph Brenner Olga Duarte, M.D. Charlin and Peter Briggs Valerie and Fred Good Trish and Rick Bryan Don Hoffman Hengameh and Ashraf Nassef, M.D. Ralph E. Campbell Arthur B. Casper Beverly Oyler Nancy Clagett Nancy and Edward Rosenthal Ginny and Jack Cover Bev and Bob Croskery In memory of Harold Dreeze Richard Dineen Jeannine and Meredith and Charles Downton John Winkelmann, M.D. Robert Dumford Susan G. Faller In memory of Jeanne Duane Carol and William Faulkner, M.D. Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Janelle and Michael Gelfand Todd Goble In memory of Marjorie Reitz Dyer Valerie and Fred Good Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Judge Robert and Susan Gorman Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Patrick M. Korb Teddy Gumbleton Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. In memory of Marilyn “Mike�

Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Feigelson Arlene Herman Dorothy Anne Blatt Brenda and William Hoffman Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Sandra and Thomas Hofmann Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Elaine and Donald Hordes Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Susan Horton Don Hoffman Susan M. Ingmire Trudie Seybold Mona and Dick Kerstine, M.D. Ellen and Ray van der Horst Susan and Neal Kinney Patrick M. Korb In memory of Virgina Griffin Susan and Richard Lauf Betty Fey Adele and Thomas Lippert Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Anita and Ed Marks Daniel J. Hoffheimer Elizabeth Matsukevich Virginia Vornhagen

Robert J. Miller Mary Lou and John Mueller Mary Ann and Peter Oka Susan and David Olson Marilyn Z. Ott Dale Potter Nancy and Edward Rosenthal Dee and Donald Saelinger Ruthann and G. James Sammarco, M.D. Zell Schulman Trudie Seybold Jacqueline M. Mack and Ted Silberstein, M.D. Sarah and Gerald Skidmore Patricia and Frank Sommerkamp, Jr. Holly and Daniel Spraul Brett Stover and Christopher Hassall, Ph.D. Barbara B. Tobias Sneja and Raffi Tomassian Nydia Tranter Ellen and Ray van der Horst Patti and Mike Veroni Gay and Buzz Volz Lorraine and Charles Weisman Sue Welty Jeannine and John Winkelmann, M.D. Linda and Craig Yoder In memory of Lillian Jones The Honorable Nathaniel Jones In memory of Margaret Kahn Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of June Kennedy Forest Park Women’s Club Linda and Fred Grimm Dorothy and Don Haas Dennis Murphy Cynthia and Michael Nease Carrie and John Poston Sandy Savage Rhonda and Richard Sternberg Debra and John Weale Mary Williams In memory of Mrs. Bobby Macleod Lois and Melvyn Nizny, M.D. In memory of Claudette McCarty Benjamin Levy In memory of Mary Olson Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S.

Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Don Hoffman Jacqueline M. Mack and Ted Silberstein, M.D. Zell Schulman Ronna and James Willis, M.D. Jeannine and John Winkelmann, M.D. In memory of Frank Osterman Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Jeanne Rape Styrk Orwoll and Joseph Greco In memory of Arlene Reid Robert E. Reid In memory of Dr. Khamis Saba Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. In memory of Ruth Sawyer Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Jo Selnick Julie and Khosrow Alamin, M.D. Frances and Thomas Bankston Carol and George Beddie, Jr. Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Mary and Tom Brennan Lois and Joseph Brenner Arthur B. Casper Nancy Clagett Ginny and Jack Cover Ellen and Stewart Dunsker, M.D. Carol and William Faulkner, M.D. Valerie and Fred Good Lynn and Jerry Grace Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Don Hoffman Mona and Dick Kerstine, M.D. Lorrie and Richard Laskey Lowell Latto Susan and Rich Lauf Jacqueline L. Lett Anne and George Musekamp Virginia and James Poon, M.D. Joyce and Armand Re Robert E. Reid Ruthann and G. James Sammarco, M.D. Geoff Scharfenberger Zell Schulman Linda and Donald Siekmann Brett Stover and Christopher Hassall, Ph.D. Nydia Tranter

In memory of Kurt Seybold Patricia K. and James D. Beggs The Feigelson Children Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Don Hoffman Susan and Rich Lauf Dale Swisher Ellen and Ray van der Horst Judith A. Wittlin In memory of Jerry Sherk Cass and Glenn Plott In memory of Andy Smith Ginny and Jack Cover In memory of Donald Soper Don Hoffman In memory of Jean B. Tolles Paule Asch, Ph.D. Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Sara Breiel Valerie and Fred Good Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Don Hoffman Patrick M. Korb Jacqueline M. Mack and Ted Silberstein, M.D. Marilyn Z. Ott Jack and Morleen Rouse, Ph.D. Ruthann and G. James Sammarco, M.D. Zell Schulman Brett Stover and Christopher Hassall, Ph.D. Sneja and Raffi Tomassian Ronna and James Willis, M.D. Jeannine and John Winkelmann, M.D. In memory of Norma Vornheder Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Harry T. Wilks Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Suzanne and Bob Hasl, M.D. Ellen and Ray van der Horst In memory of Andrew Wolf Emily Hodges

Contributions from May 15, 2013 to May 12, 2014

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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.

Sylvia Benjamin

Styrk Orwoll

Opera Women’s Committee 1967-1969 • Member of Opera Association Board 1970-1972 • Member of Guild Board 2000-2008 • Appeared in speaking roles in The Student Prince (1978) and Roberta (1985)

General Manager of Cincinnati Opera 1964-1973 • Presided over the move from the Zoo to Music Hall in 1972 • Donor

Maureen Dillon

Member of Opera Association Board 1985-1990 • Served on Executive Committee 1987-1990

Member of Opera Association Board 1999-2006 • Member of Guild Board 2007-2012 • Served on Guild Executive Committee 2010-2012

Harriet Marsh Page

Jo Selnick

Member of Opera Association Board 2006-2013 • With her husband, Dr. Howard Feigelson, Director’s Circle Donor and artistic sponsor

Member of Guild Board 1982-1988 • Opera Gala Chair 1985 • Served on Guild Executive Board as President (1985) and Chairman (1986) • Honorary Guild Board 1999-2013 • Member of Opera Association Board 1988-2013

Eugene Frey

Kurt Seybold

President of Cincinnati Musicians Association 1957-2010

Cast Party host as co-owner of Forest View Gardens restaurant • Supported many young singers through the restaurant and scholarship at CCM • Guild Life Member as of 1988 • Honored along with wife Trudie with the Charlotte Shockley Volunteer Award in 2010

Marilyn “Mike” Feigelson

Cleo Hall Music Hall security officer through Cincinnati Private Police Association 1985-2009

Donna Hoffman Honored by Cincinnati Opera along with her husband, Don, in 2008 for support of the company • Artistic sponsor and member of Society of Angels

Peggy Kahn Member of Opera Association Board 1971-1978 • Honorary Guild Board 1999-2014 • Chaired Gala to celebrate Opera’s move from Zoo to Music Hall in 1972 • Honored with the Charlotte Shockley Volunteer Award in 2008

Douglas Lowry Ex-officio Member of Opera Association Board 2001-2008 • Dean of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music 2001-2007

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Jerome Ray Sherk Industry professional who started his career as stage manager during our 1973 and 1976 summer seasons

Donald B. Soper Guild Board Member 1990-1998 • Guild Treasurer from 1991-1998 • Honorary Guild Board 1999-2013

Harry T. Wilks Opera Association Board Member 1991-2013 Underwriter of the first Opera in the Park concert (2013) and Artistic Director chair sponsor 2007-2013

In Memoriam

Mr. Wilks alongside a Roman head in the recently opene Museum of Ancient Sculpture at Pyramid Hill.

Harry T. Wilks

Mr. Wilks at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in front of Alexander Liberman’s whimsical creation, Abracadabra.

1926-2014

Harry T. Wilks: A Great Friend of Cincinnati Opera I first met Harry Wilks in the company of two beautiful women. It was early in my tenure as artistic director. General Director Patty Beggs and our President at the time, tion is, what are you going to do with it?” A arry T. Wilks’ strategy for getting things Cathy Crain, were determined to have my position endowed by Harry. We three went 1949 graduate of Miami University, he funded accomplished is simple: First, you see to Harry’s one-of-a-kind home in Hamilton, Ohio. There, in the midst of a beautiful the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute there it in your mind. Then you make it happen. sculpture park, Harry’s splendid residence crowned what he called Pyramid Hill. Like in 2002, a program committed to promoting Those simple precepts have led him to make a so much of what Harry did in his eventful life, the house was a singular achievement, ethical leadership and preparing students to tangible difference on our community, escreated in an improbable location, scoffed at originally by doubters and eventually become engaged public leaders and informed pecially in the world of arts. Wilks is known lauded as an idea of vision and genius. global citizens.

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today throughout southwest Ohio and beyond He sees the arts as a key component in as the “philanthropic dynamo” who turned Harry, always an astute businessman who wanted every dollar to good count, grilled us on citizenship. When he retired from a his personal passion for art into Pyramid Hill the whys and wherefores of such a donation—he asked all the right questions and gave career as an attorney and investor in the Sculpture Park near Hamilton, Ohio, one of nothing away. He the must have been a terrific poker player.

In the years since, I valued mid-1980s, he focused his energies on creating world’s most noteworthy showplaces for Harry’s advice, marveled at his endless energy, and stood in awe at his unfailing eye for Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, a 265-acre monumental sculpture. beauty, whether in selecting an Etruscan statue for his museum or admiring the work of attraction that has been noticed by arts lovers He has been a force in the civic and a soprano singing cultural Pucciniscene (his for favorite voice and favorite composer). for its monumental displays in natural settings decades. In particular, he is a of works by renowned artists from around the significant benefactor of Cincinnati Opera, the It may be a cliché philanthropist to say we will not see likeT. again, true.He Harry was aa passion for art that led developed behind The his Harry Wilks but it is stillworld. man of fierce conviction who was always willing to buck the status quo in pursuit of to sharing it with to acquisition and then Artistic Director chair held by Evans Mirageas, beauty as he saw it.

No wonder he loved opera. others, first through the park and now through a position funded in perpetuity. a full-fledged Museum of Ancient Sculpture, set Perhaps Wilks’ earliest inspiration for his When he eventually said “yes” proposal, he immediately added: Evans, I to open“Now this summer. generosity was to theour model of Cincinnati Opera don’t want you to patrons do anything that will embarrass me!”

I don’t think I have thus far, money and away in their “People who give Ralph and Patricia Corbett in the late Harry’s spirit of excellence will continue to guide me as we go forward in the exciting lifetime are a lot happier,” Wilks says forth1960s. When they established the Corbett seasons to come. IFoundation, am proudWilks to bewas known as The Harry T. Wilks rightly.

ArtisticThey Director. see that it’s achieving some intrigued by their desire worthwhile purpose. They care more about to make significant contributions during their other people. It has so many advantages.” The lifetimes. The Corbetts funded the renovation Mirageas focus of –Evans his energies is Pyramid Hill, but Harry of Music Hall and made it possible for CincinThe Harry Wilks’ T. Wilks Artistic Director passion for opera means he has carved nati Opera to move productions there in 1972 out time to serve as a trustee of Cincinnati after more than five decades at the Cincinnati Opera. His generosity has made a significant Zoo. The first person to buy a Music Hall box difference in the quality of opera enjoyed by to enjoy opera performances was none other Tristate audiences year after year, and we are than Harry Wilks. “There’s nothing wrong grateful for his support. with being wealthy,” Wilks says. “The ques-

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Society of Angels Thank You 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

Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer Linda and Harry Fath Brett Stover and Christopher Hassall, Ph.D. Members

Anonymous (2) Frank and Janet Andress Scott Atkinson and Christopher D. Edwards Mr. Boris Auerbach Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Baker Ms. Henrietta Barlag Mr. Albert M. Bary Christopher Baucom Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Bavaria Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Marlene and Robert Boden Charlin and Peter Briggs A.K. and Gibby Carey Arthur B. Casper Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Norma L. Clark Jane Copper-Short and John Short Virginia K. Cover Cathy and Tom Crain Dr. and Mrs. Alvin Crawford Mr. Daniel B. and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mr. Harrison R.T. Davis Mr. Kingston Fletcher Dr. Donald W. Good Valeria and Frederick R. Good Madeleine Gordon Marlesa A. Gray Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S. Kevin D. Brady and The David G. Hakes Charitable Trust Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Janet and Cornelius Hauck Hon. and Mrs. Dennis S. Helmick Don and Donna* Hoffman Julia M.F.B. Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine Richard and Sarajane King

Patrick M. Korb Estates Roberta and Jeffrey P. Kuhn Estate of Mary Elizabeth Elizabeth and Ken Kuresman Andrews Trust Marjorie and Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Estate of Thomas F. Buck Richard and Susan Lauf Estate of Ellen K. Burroughs Anne and John* Lawrence, Jr. Estate of Thomas W. Busse Gail Lennig and Gene Santoro* Estate of Wm. Rowell Chase Adele and Thomas Lippert Estate of Mrs. Marno Christensen Joanie D. and William H. Lotts Estate of Patricia A. Corbett Mr. and Mrs. William F. Lyon Estate of Wilma B. Cowley Susan Sterritt Meyer Estate of Virginia Curry Gloria and Arnold Morelli Estate of Miss Emilie T. Curry Norbert and Linnea Nadel Estate of Mary E. Day Robert and Carol Olson Estate of Maureen C. Dillon Mr. Maurice E. Oshry Estate of Luba Matiuk Dorman Marge and Tom Osterman Estate of Ed P. Dundon Marilyn Z. Ott Estate of Helen T. Ehlers Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Estate of Miss Natalie Feld Mr. Charles Parsons Estate of Katherine H. Groll Mr. Nicholas S. Payne and Estate of Mrs. Eleanor Hazelton Ms. Cynthia Heinrich Estate of Mrs. Jean L. Hermann Ms. Marilyn W. Peters Estate of Anita Mae Imholt Mr. Bradford Eastman Phillips Estate of Rosemary R. Longano Mr. Thomas F. Rehme Estate of Dr. Stanley Kaplan Ellen and George* Rieveschl, Jr. Estate of Ruth Koehl Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Estate of Tailitha P. Kluver Solveiga Rush Estate of Linda and Emalee Schavel Samuel Kramer, M.D. Kenneth C. Schonberg and Estate of Elizabeth W. Kyte Deborah Schultz Estate of Elma Lapp Zell Schulman Estate of Rosemary R. Longano Anna Jo* and William Selnick, M.D. Estate of Mrs. Richardson McKinney Trudie and Kurt* Seybold Estate of Bill Nimmo Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Estate of Louise Dieterle Nippert Jacqueline M. Mack Estate of Margaret Ohanian Thomas S. Smith The Pearlman Charitable Frank Stewart Remainder Unitrust Carolyn and Fred Strebel Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roder Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Stuhlreyer III Estate of Marilyn A. Russley Nydia C. Tranter Estate of Joanne T. Santangelo Richard and Jane Tuten Estate of Miss Charlotte L. Shockley Larry Uhlenbrock Estate of Charlotte E. Smith Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Estate of Mrs. Italo Tajo Anne M. Werner Estate of Dr. and Jeannine Winkelmann and Mrs. Kenneth Wilson John Winkelmann, M.D. Estate of Lura Carnes Wine Harris W. Wright Dr. Atsuko Yatani

*Deceased

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Connecting People and Leveraging Opportunity

Dr. Alvin and Alva Jean Crawford

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ean and Alvin Crawford have been married for 50 years and have two children and three grandchildren, but their informal family encompasses many more— the numerous people whose lives have been changed by knowing them.

Jean Crawford was elected to the Cincinnati Opera board of trustees in 1991, but we have benefitted from the involvement of both Jean and her husband, Dr. Alvin Crawford, over the years. As a trustee, Jean joined with members of the board and staff to develop programming and best practices that demonstrated the Opera’s intrinsic core beliefs of diversity and inclusion. With Jean’s support, the Opera commissioned Margaret Garner and three new family operas celebrating our diverse culture. Cincinnati Opera’s programming has been recognized locally and nationally by the NAACP, Opera America, NEA, and others.

Jean also serves on several boards, including the Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the Music Hall Revitalization Company.

In addition to being one of Cincinnati’s

leading arts ambassadors, Jean, a teacher and counselor, has assisted disadvantaged youth at inner-city schools with tutoring and mentoring. She has been recognized with numerous awards, notably the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Woman of the Year.

“Diversity is not a black and white issue.

It is being able to accept other people’s values, then relate and communicate,” says Dr. Alvin Crawford. A surgeon, teacher, humanitarian, and recent recipient of the Great Living Cincinnatian Award, the Laurel Wreath, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. He has made it his lifelong mission to help people, particularly children. If you ask him what makes him most proud other than his grandchildren, he will tell you it’s a toss-up between his work in West Africa, India, the 2007 Diversity Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society. He has been honored by the dedication of Chairs in Pediatric Orthopaedics, Pediatric Spinal Surgery, and the Crawford Spine Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Jean and Alvin, avid advocates of Cincinnati Opera, have sponsored artists, encouraged connections, and promoted our organization. In 2007, they demonstrated their belief in the future of Cincinnati Opera by making a planned gift and joining the Society of Angels. We are truly grateful for their dedication and support.

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Cincinnati Opera Repertoire 1920–2014 John Adams Nixon in China–2007

Francesco Cavalli La Calisto–2014

Carlisle Floyd Of Mice and Men–1971

A Flowering Tree–2011

Francesco Cilèa Adriana Lecouvreur–1979

Susannah–1959, 1964, 1979, 1988

Emmanuel Chabrier L’Étoile–2006

Charles Rudolph Friml The Firefly–1930, 1931

Richard Danielpour Margaret Garner–2005

George Gershwin Porgy and Bess–2012

Michael William Balfe The Bohemian Girl–1927, 1928, 1936

Henry Louis Reginald de Koven Robin Hood–1929

Béla Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle–2001

Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande–2000

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

Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio–1931, 1932, 1980

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

Franco Alfano Resurrection–1983 Daniel François Espirit Auber Fra Diavolo–1927

Peter Bengtson The Maids–2004 Vincenzo Bellini Norma–1932, 1935, 1938, 1977, 1984, 2003

Gaetano Donizetti The Daughter of the Regiment (La Fille du Régiment)–1973, 2004

La Sonnambula–1960

Don Pasquale–1920, 1921, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1968, 1981, 1996

Georges Bizet Carmen–1921-24, 1926-33, 1935-60, 1962-1971, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1997, 2004, 2009, 2014

The Elixir of Love (L’Elisir d’Amore)–1924, 1926, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1983

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

Lucia di Lammermoor–1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1937, 1939-43, 1952-54, 1957, 1958, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1985, 1990, 1997, 2008

Il Pirata–1969

William Bolcom Medusa–2003 Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes–1960 The Turn of the Screw–1999 Daniel Catán Florencia en el Amazonas–2008

Roberto Devereux–1974 Friedrich von Flotow Martha–1920, 1924, 1926, 1928-30, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1943-45, 1947, 1948, 1955, 1956

Fedora–1923 Philip Glass Galileo Galilei–2013 Osvaldo Golijov Ainadamar–2009 Charles Gounod Faust–1921-23, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1935-51, 1953-58, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1999, 2007 Romeo and Juliet–1922, 1923, 1933, 1945, 1971, 1982, 1989, 1994, 2002 Fromental Halévy La Juive–1927, 1928 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

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Sidney Jones The Geisha–1932

Douglas Moore The Ballad of Baby Doe–1976

Gianni Schicchi–1975, 1982, 2012

Jerome Kern Roberta–1985

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Abduction From the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)–1992

Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West)– 1933, 1938, 1986

Show Boat–1976 Franz Lehár The Merry Widow–1951-53, 1975, 1982

Così Fan Tutte–1963, 1966, 1976, 1983, 1989, 2007

Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci–1920, 1927, 1933-39, 1941-46, 1950, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1981, 1993, 2012

Don Giovanni–1930, 1931, 1936, 1949, 1951, 1961, 1977, 1990, 1999, 2004, 2013

Zazà–1985, 1987

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) 1932, 1986, 1993, 2001, 2011

Frank Leoni L’Oracolo–1928, 1931 Frank Loesser The Most Happy Fella–1977 Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana–1921, 1922, 1926, 1928, 1933-37, 1941, 1944-46, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1981, 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 Gian Carlo Menotti The Medium–1967 Giacomo Meyerbeer Dinorah–1929, 1930 L’Africaine–1936 Italo Montemezzi The Love of Three Kings (L’Amore dei Tre Re)–1926, 1929, 1946, 1947, 1949

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The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro)–1956, 1957, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2009 Modest Mussorgsky Boris Godunov–1948, 1958, 1974 Jacques Offenbach La Périchole–1974 The Tales of Hoffmann–1921, 1923, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1992, 2006 Robert Planquette Les Cloches de Corneville (The Chimes of Normandy)–1930 Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda–1923, 1924, 1928, 1935, 1936, 1942 Francis Poulenc La Voix Humaine–2003 Giacomo Puccini La Bohème–1924, 1932, 1936-63, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2010

Madame Butterfly–1924, 1928-33, 1936-41, 1946-60, 1962-64, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1982, 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 Turandot–1955, 1956, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1987, 1995, 2003 Kevin Puts Silent Night–2014 Richard Rodgers Carousel–1983 Oklahoma–1984 The Sound of Music–1982 South Pacific–1981 Sigmund Romberg The Student Prince–1978 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 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 Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus–1928, 1950, 1951, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1980 The Gypsy Baron (Der Zigeunerbaron)–1932 Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos–1961 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

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas Mignon–1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941-43, 1945, 1946

Il Trovatore–1921, 1922, 1926-33, 1937-49, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1986, 1994

Viktor Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis–2004

Richard Wagner The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer)–1975, 1996

Isaac Van Grove The Music Robber–1926, 1927 Giuseppe Verdi Aida–1921-24, 1926, 1927, 1929-33, 1935-1956, 1959-62, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2007, 2013 Attila–1979, 1984 Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)–1931, 1939, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1974, 1991, 2006

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg– 1928, 1929, 1983, 2010 Das Rheingold–1961, 1981 Die Walküre–1927, 1928, 1978 Lohengrin–1921, 1922, 1924, 1926-28, 1931, 1933, 1935-37, 1947-49 Parsifal–1929, 1930 Tannhäuser–1926-30, 1932, 1935, 1937-40, 1945-48

Don Carlo–1961, 1984, 1989, 2009

Tristan und Isolde–1949

Falstaff–1926, 1930, 1997

Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischütz–1933

La Forza del Destino–1932, 1965, 1969

Kurt Weill Seven Deadly Sins–2003

Macbeth–1960, 1961, 1978

Jaromír Weinberger Schwanda The Bagpiper–1986

Nabucco–2001 Otello–1921, 1929, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1970, 1982, 1996, 2010 Rigoletto–1920-22, 1924, 1926, 1928-32, 1935-56, 1961-63, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1992, 2005, 2011 La Traviata–1923, 1924, 1926, 1931, 1935, 1938-58, 1960, 1962-64, 1966-68, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2012

Meredith Willson The Music Man–1983 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Jewels of the Madonna (I Gioielli della Madonna)–1927 Secret of Suzanne–1920, 1922, 1928, 1937, 1948, 1953

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the music and culture of faraway lands into music, literature, and painting. The French were fascinated with the exotic culture of Spain, which was so close, yet so far away in customs and lifestyle.

Falling into the genre of opéra comique, Carmen premiered in Paris at the legendary Opéra Comique, a theatre that was born during the reign of Louis XIV and continues to thrive today. Contrary to its name, opéra comique as a genre is not comic opera, but rather French opera with spoken text. A few months after the death of Bizet, Ernest Guiraud, an American composer born in Louisiana and working in Paris, replaced the spoken dialogues in Carmen with recitatives, so typical in opera since its inception in Italy around 1600. Audiences were accustomed to recitatives to carry the action forward, while arias showcased the beauty and virtuosity of the voice. Furthermore, recitatives were more audible than spoken dialogue in large opera houses. The recitative version of Carmen became the standard for over 100 years.

Cincinnati Opera’s 2014 production features Carmen in its “version originale,” that is, with spoken text woven into the fabric of the opera as conceived by the composer.

The librettists for Carmen were Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac. Halévy, who was the nephew of the renowned composer Fromental Halévy, a founder of French Grand Opera, wrote the words for the lyrical pieces, and Henri Meilhac wrote the spoken dialogue. Considered a verismo (realism) opera, Carmen is reflective of the 19th-century artistic réalisme movement in France, which brought the lives of the underprivileged to the consciousness of the public, as seen so clearly in the paintings of Gustave Courbet (The Stone

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Breakers) and Jean-François Millet (Woman with a Rake). We see realism in Carmen’s depiction of the everyday lives of ordinary people of mostly poorer classes—the cigarette factory with its working girls, smugglers, Gypsies, and a ragamuffin children’s chorus depicting a life that revolved around the torero as a popular idol.

The expanded orchestra in Bizet’s day, the 19th-century Romantic Period, blossomed in tone colors. Bizet took full advantage of this new palette that included instruments such as the piccolo, English horn, E-flat and bass clarinet, contrabassoon, and harp.

Bizet deviates from the traditional overture, opening with a prelude in rondo form (ABACA) serving as an amuse-bouche, with themes from the opera to come. Listen for the bullfighting theme, the Toreador Song, and finally the dark leitmotif of destiny that serves as a coda. This ominous five-note fate motif foreshadows danger with its everpresent tremolo in the upper strings. Once again departing from the past, Bizet opens each remaining act with a brief orchestral entr’acte, exploiting new tonal shades in the Romantic orchestra: Act II, bassoon; Act III, harp and flute; and Act IV, oboe.

The opera chorus began to take on a personality of its own during the Romantic Period. Carmen’s first act contains a vibrant chorus of street urchins that adds realism and brings fresh excitement. The Cigarette Girls’ Chorus, Toreador Chorus, Gypsy Chorus, Chorus of Smugglers, and the Bullfight Fan’s Chorus all bring energy to the opera, balancing the overall form with the captivating arias.

Bizet’s gift of integrating his music with his characters makes his music radiant and

lifelike. Carmen describes her sensuous free spirit in her famous habanera, in which she sings of the fleeting nature of love over strong Spanish rhythms in a four-note bass ostinato in the cellos. Her seguidilla, an old Castilian dance in triple meter, in which she seduces Don José into meeting at Lillas Pastia’s tavern, draws out her sexually manipulative and feminine nature, Gypsy style.

Perhaps the most memorable aria in the opera is the Toreador Song in Act II. The chorus adds to the spirit of the aria as everyone anticipates the bullfight with enthusiasm. The torero, Escamillo, appears in dashing attire, impressing the crowd— especially Carmen. She boldly moves on to this next conquest, leading to her demise. In the end, her immorality is our lesson; it makes us fantasize…and, it makes us contemplate.

Premiered in 1875 in Paris, the cultural capital of Europe, Carmen continues to be the “C” in the ABCs of opera with Aida (Verdi) and La Bohème (Puccini), the three most popular operas of all time. Unsuccessful at its premiere, Carmen was perceived as “in poor taste,” with disreputable characters so inappropriate for the high-society Parisians who frequented the theatre with their wellbred daughters and their fiancés. Ironically, Bizet never lived to see the success of his masterpiece; he died just a few months after the premiere, never experiencing the worldwide success of his chef-d’oeuvre.

The failure of Carmen’s premiere had little to do with the musical genius of Bizet, but rather the opera’s immorality. When it was performed in Vienna later in the same year as its premiere, it received the enthusiastic response it deserved. The expressive qualities of Bizet’s melodies have made Carmen a

favorite with audiences ever since. German philosopher and art critic Friedrich Nietzsche in his book The Case of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem (1888) praised Carmen, saying “This music seems perfect to me…I become a better human being when this Bizet speaks to me.”

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in 1848 that kick-started the predominance of German immigration to Cincinnati.

The revolutionaries and those caught in the crossfire fled by the thousands from Germany; many of them landed in Cincinnati.

They brought with them their traditions of language, guilds, culture, family, and food.

They gravitated to Over-the-Rhine, where street signs, shop signs, churches, newspapers, and the language on the street soon became German. They worked hard, helping all of Cincinnati prosper and laying the groundwork for other immigrant nationalities to follow. And while OTR was eventually home to a wide variety of cultures, German would predominate until World War I.

Those of us who love the arts are grateful to those German-speaking forebears. With their working-men’s associations came a love of singing. Each craft or trade had its society or “Verein” as it is called in German. And at the end of every Verein meeting, the men would sing, mostly folk songs or labor songs, but they would sing. Out of those Verein traditions would eventually grow our world famous institutions: May Festival, Symphony, and Opera.

World War I began in the summer of 1914. On June 28, in Sarajevo, a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the summer of 1914 Cincinnati, like much of the U.S., was enjoying prosperity. Procter and Gamble was already an international phenomenon.

Our arts were thriving. The Cincinnati Symphony was under the leadership of the eminent Austrian maestro Ernst Kunwald.

The University of Cincinnati was growing by leaps and bounds. Up on Mount Adams, the Cincinnati Art Museum was expanding its collections.

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Downtown Cincinnati was a wonder, crowded with theaters and especially department stores whose origins were in Cincinnati and whose owners were often of German descent. And Over-the-Rhine was hopping. It is said that Vine Street between the canal and Liberty had more bars, beer gardens, and restaurants than any other similar stretch of street anywhere in the U.S.A. Many of the nearly 200 Germanlanguage newspapers begun in Cincinnati were still publishing.

In July 1914, reacting to Austria’s declaration of war, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the newly-united Germany quickly threw his lot in with the Emperor of Austria against Russia, France, and England. Local Germans must have been vexed. Many of them were firstgeneration immigrants, joining the several generations of established German-Americans but still keenly aware of the tensions at home.

Many of them would leave their new country to go back to Germany and fight for a cause they believed was just.

Those who stayed entered a limbo.

America was steadfastly neutral. President Woodrow Wilson made it clear that this was not America’s affair. Everyone thought the war would be over by Christmas 1914. The Germans and Austrians thought their superior military machinery would win the day in a matter of months. The Allies felt that with Russia and its vast population they would win the day. No one in that particularly agriculturally blessed summer of 1914 thought they were beginning a war that would last five years, topple empires, change the map of Europe and the Middle East, and consume the lives of more than 16 million men and women.

What was the average German Cincinnatian to do? Though the stories are

mostly remembered and not chronicled in the newspaper, in the early days when Germany and Austria gained ground, quiet celebrations would take place in OTR. America in general slumbered on, aware and wary of what was going on, but wanting to get on with its own prosperity. That all changed overnight in April 1917. Not long after The Kaiser declared unlimited open submarine warfare in the Atlantic and elsewhere, President Wilson requested, and Congress granted, an Act of War on April 6.

Cincinnati reacted nearly immediately, and it is not one of the brighter chapters in our history. The Germans of Cincinnati scrambled to hide their heritage out of fear of persecution. German-language printing ceased, German schools began to close, saloons even took pretzels off the counter as every bit of German was eradicated from the city. Restaurants began to sell “liberty slaw” instead of sauerkraut, and doctors diagnosed “liberty measles” instead of German measles.

In our world of the arts, a particularly shameful event occurred. The Cincinnati Symphony’s maestro, Ernst Kunwald, was arrested on trumped-up charges and eventually deported. Streets with German names were changed—for example, Humboldt Street became William Howard Taft Road­—or flipped backwards. Even today when driving around Cincinnati, you can see just off of Glenway Avenue on the West Side where “Mueller” Avenue became “Relleum,” and nearby “Kuller” Drive became “Relluk.” The war had a devastating effect on Over-theRhine. Business suffered, and with the arrival of Prohibition in 1920, the area began a steep decline.

Eventually, the most beautiful Victorianera neighborhood in the U.S.A. went to sleep. However, it was not destroyed. The anti-German sentiment abated with the swift end to the war in November 1918 and all Cincinnatians, German and non-German

alike, went about their lives. Waves of men and women from Appalachia and AfricanAmericans looking for work in the north eventually re-populated much of Over-theRhine. It retained its significance of being an entry point into Cincinnati’s working-class life.

As you watch and listen to Silent Night, remember that you are not only re-living a part of history, but that you are sitting in a theater and enjoying a richness of artistic accomplishment that owes its origins to our forebears on both sides of the conflict.

Though we haven’t yet been able to “turn swords into plowshares” in this still warweary world, opera—and this opera in particular—reminds us of our common humanity and our shared heritage. Ultimately, there is hope in Silent Night. It’s the same hope that Schiller and Beethoven expressed so gloriously in the final movement of the Ninth Symphony: “Alle Menschen werden Brüder”—“All men shall become brothers.”

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a musician showed musical talent early. As a child chorister, he attracted the attention of a Venetian patron, “Francesco Cavalli,” whose name he later adopted. The younger Cavalli eventually sang in the choir of San Marco in Venice under Claudio Monteverdi, and he developed into a highly regarded singer, organist, conductor, and composer.

While Monteverdi was undoubtedly the most important composer of opera during its infancy, Cavalli took up the baton and became the most significant operatic composer through the mid-17th century. In all, he would compose about 40 operas.

Cavalli came to the art form at a particularly interesting time. Opera had begun in the late 16th century among the elite classes and was performed for court audiences on special occasions. The nobles who established opera had envisioned a restoration of Greek classicism, and their plot lines involved characters from Greek mythology or history. But as luck would have it, Cavalli’s ascendance as an opera composer paralleled the establishment of the first public opera house, Venice’s Teatro San Cassiano, in 1637. Others soon followed. Now that the general public could avail themselves of performances, they wanted diversion, not a history lesson. The high-minded plots of old gradually included comic subplots that counterbalanced the serio-tragical elements and added some welcome spice.

Cavalli and his most successful collaborator, Giuseppe Faustini (1615-1651), who was also a theatrical impresario, proved themselves quite adept at theatrical pacing and variety.

While Faustini’s libretto for La Calisto is based on a section of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he and Cavalli felt free to change the narrative to make it less predictable. Notice, for example, how skillfully the more melancholy,

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soulful, and lyrical outpourings of Calisto or Endymion are offset by the piquant and irreverent jabs of Mercury or Satirino.

Opera was developing musically as well.

The vocal lines in the earliest operas consisted mostly of recitar cantando (sung speech).

Around the time of Cavalli, the sung passages in opera began to be differentiated between recitative (the “sung speech” reserved for lines that advanced the story) and aria (the more melodic sections that allowed a character to expound on a particular emotion). Cavalli was canny enough to keep his instrumental forces small, using primarily basso continuo (a combination of keyboard and bass or cello) to accompany the recitatives and then adding a small string orchestra and other instruments as needed for the rest. This kept costs down in these early days of “opera for everyone” and also permitted every word of the text to be heard.

That we have La Calisto at all is due in large part to the work of English conductor and musicologist Raymond Leppard.

Leppard reconstructed La Calisto and other early operas during his tenure at the Glyndebourne Festival in the 1960s and 1970s. As he pointed out in the notes to the performing edition of the opera he published in 1975, Cavalli’s manuscript, like those of most other composers of his time, actually consisted of only a vocal line and a bass line.

Otherwise, directions as to orchestration, ornamentation, and the like, were scarce. In the light of later scholarship, Leppard’s work was considered quite controversial. However, there is no denying that he did yeoman’s work in reconstructing the repertory and reintroducing it to the public.

In the end, notions of “authenticity” or “ultimate authority” when it comes to performance of this or other early operas, will

probably forever remain a matter of debate.

Leppard’s Glyndebourne performances of La Calisto in the early 1970s, which put the opera back on the map, offered a particular tour de force for mezzo-soprano Janet Baker.

Baker performed double duty as Diana—both as the chaste goddess who yearns for love and passion and as the licentious Jove, who “disguises” himself as Diana in order to seduce Calisto. Other more recent performances of the work, such as the production mounted

by René Jacobs and Herbert Wernicke in the 1990s, opted to have the bass singing the role of Jove also portray the false Diana, as Cincinnati Opera does this summer. Both choices are valid; both are effective. Who is to say which is “correct”?

Meanwhile the popularity of this onceforgotten opera continues to grow. What do audiences of today see in it? Aside from the vitality and immediacy of its music and entertainment value, perhaps it is the human frailty that comes across in its characters.

Whether the characters are divine or human, old or young, male or female, comely or repulsive, they all share a recognizable, universal yearning for connection—whether through lofty notions of true love or common, unbridled lust. For some, such as Juno the betrayed wife or Endymion the mistreated shepherd, love is a painful risk that ends in disappointment. For others, such as the randy Satirino and the curious old nymph Linfea, love is a game of opportunity. Ultimately, one plays the hand one is dealt, and then faces the consequences.

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In January 1898, John Luther Long, a lawyer from Philadelphia, published an 18-page story called “Madam Butterfly” in Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.

Although clearly influenced by Loti’s novel (which had an English-language translation soon after being published in the original French), Long insisted that he came by this story in a different way. His sister was the wife of a Christian missionary based in Nagasaki and, said Long, she told him stories about a young Japanese girl who renounced her religion, married a foreigner (named Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton), and had his child (after its father had long departed).

In Long’s story, when Pinkerton returns to Japan with his new American wife, Butterfly attempts suicide. However, she survives and is bandaged up as the story ends.

David Belasco’s play was only one act and was influenced by, though not slavish to, the works of Loti and Long. The entire play was set two years after Pinkerton’s departure. Audiences were asked to concern themselves with Cio-Cio-San and her maid.

The London audience only met Pinkerton as he slinked in toward the end, by which point the audience was entirely on Butterfly’s side and was deeply moved when she successfully committed suicide. Puccini was also taken with a 14-minute sequence in the play in which Butterfly waits in silence for Pinkerton to arrive. Belasco used creative lighting to suggest the night and the sea. Where Belasco asked for silence, Puccini heard music—the opera’s famous Humming Chorus.

For Puccini, the narrative threads created

by Loti, Long, and Belasco served as only part of the material that became the gorgeous and complex opera that he called Madama Butterfly. He instructed his librettists, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, to draw from

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the sources to create an inexorable forward progression of the plot with the focus on the young geisha. The libretto is a thing of beauty, full of perfume, flowers, and emotional peaks and valleys.

Like other acknowledged masterpieces, including The Barber of Seville, La Traviata, and Carmen, Madama Butterfly was a big failure at its La Scala premiere on February 17, 1904. While these other works soon found success, Puccini felt his opera could be improved. Audiences in Milan did not immediately take to the Japanese setting, nor Puccini’s subtle use of orchestration to suggest a place so different from the locales of his three previous works—France in Manon Lescaut and La Bohème, Rome in Tosca. The composer also realized that the second act was too long and made a few judicious cuts.

He then inserted an intermission after the famous Humming Chorus during which Cio-Cio-San maintains an all-night watch for Pinkerton’s ship to enter Nagasaki harbor after he has been gone for three years.

For some audience members, it was also implausible—not to say distasteful—that a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl should be married off (for a price) to an older American military official and then bear his child. In Puccini’s previous three operas, the tenor lead was a hero even if he had flaws. In this opera Pinkerton is a cad, which made him unappealing to audiences accustomed to embracing both the soprano and tenor protagonists of Puccini’s three earlier works.

But Puccini knew what he was doing. He was knowledgable about earlier operas that had a female character who was in every way the protagonist and whose story the audience inevitably focused on no matter who else was on the stage. Such characters included Norma, Lucia, Violetta, Carmen, Brünnhilde,

and Salome. We know these women by their first names, much as we do the pop divas of our own time. Puccini had already created his own prototype with Tosca and took it further with Cio-Cio-San.

The three-act version of Madama Butterfly was presented in Brescia on May 28, 1904 and was an immediate success. An important element in this was the role of the maid Suzuki. Most operatic maids and servants before this one (apart from Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde) were minor parts usually assigned to a mezzo-soprano. Suzuki is steadfast and loyal, though often shows flashes of anger and indignation at what is befalling Cio-Cio-San. She provides some of the narrative to other characters (especially Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul) and, in many ways, experiences some of the most dramatic moments along with the audience. She is our guide into the story.

Because Pinkerton and many of the minor characters are unlikable (including Goro the marriage broker and most of Butterfly’s relatives), Suzuki takes on importance as a figure the audience cares for deeply. Puccini wrote the gorgeous Flower Duet for both women to show not only their shared hopes but Suzuki’s apprehension. It is a musical stroke of genius.

There is another element that led to Madama Butterfly’s ultimate success. This opera, though set in Japan, is sung in Italian and, early on, the performers were Italian.

This story—of a woman who is seduced, abandoned, has a child on her own, then is powerless as its uncaring father takes the child away, and she kills herself in despair—is as Italian in its feelings as Rigoletto or Cavalleria Rusticana, even if the plots are not the same. The breaking-up of families,

especially when women are unwilling victims, strikes deep in the Italian psyche. It is not uncommon to see audiences in Italy burst into tears in the second act because they know of the tragedy that is still to come.

But it is not just the story that touches us so. Puccini’s music here is some of the most beautiful ever composed for an opera, delineating not only the story and the characters, but tapping a deep vein of emotion in the place where it must be felt most—by those of us in the audience.

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Acknowledgments Cincinnati Opera wishes to thank those who donated services and assistance to make our 2014 season a success.

Administrative Support: Kaitlin King; Melanie Schmid Artist Housing: Garfield Suites Hotel (Mick Douthat, Laura Lucas, and staff ); Bridgestreet Worldwide Corporate Housing (Matt Kemmerling); Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (AJ Ford); Mu and Robin Sinclaire; Cincinnati Ballet (Dena D’Andrea); Oakwood Worldwide (Darrin Kirby); Dale Shafer; Greater Cincinnati Relocation Services (Doni Uphus); V-Suites (Louise Jaffe); Al and Sandra Geiser; Michael Fiday; Brett Stover and Christopher Hassall Artist Services & Donations: Victoria Travel (Carolann Mary, Vicky Mary, and staff ); Transportation Connection (Karen Salmon); Airport Executive Shuttle; Mike Albert Leasing (Rick Sheidler); Ron Bates, Legg Mason Investment Counsel; Melanie Chavez, Chavez Properties; Michael Cioffi, Blank Rome LLP; Harry Fath, Fath Properties; Dr. Jack and Barbara Hahn; Stephen L. Hightower II, Hightowers Petroleum Co.; David Reichert, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP; Kathy Selker, Northlich; Murray Sinclaire, Jr., Ross, Sinclaire & Associates; Jim Stapleton, FRCH Design Worldwide; Cindy & Bill Starr Audio Description: Mike Snyder Auditors: Barnes Dennig & Company Ltd. Banking Services: PNC Bank Center Stage Partners: LPK, Macy’s Gifts-In-Kind: Art Design Consultants/Litsa Spanos; Face It Spa; Funky’s Catering; Goodwin Lighting Services; Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati; Jeff Thomas Catering; Dr. David J. Kissel and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kissel; The Kroger Co.; Carol A. Lebourveau; Nate Moster and Chuck Knippen; Orchids at Palm Court; Vintner Select; The Wine Merchant; Zinncinnati Urban Design Studio Green Room Hospitality: Nick Ciafardini Investment Managers: Johnson Investment Counsel; PNC Institutional Investments; U.S. Bank Institutional Trust & Custody; Fort Washington Capital Partners Group

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Center Stage 2014 Cincinnati Opera Center Stage members are dynamic opera lovers who share an interest in meeting fellow fans, making friends, and celebrating opera.

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Darlene Zoz Controller Patrice Kirksey Administrative Intern Douglas L. Turner Finance Intern Development Sneja H. Tomassian Director of Development Donald E. Hoffman Director of Planned Giving Board Volunteer Julie Bergantino Senior Manager, Major Gifts Lissa Urriquia Gapultos Senior Manager, Institutional Gifts Aaren Ballinger Manager of Individual Giving Taylor Luby Events Manager Teddy Gumbleton Development Associate, Prospecting & Database Management Claire Calder Willingham Development Intern

Philip J. Groshong Company Photographer Artistic Evans Mirageas The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director Marcus K端chle Director of Artistic Operations Lauren Bailey Artistic Coordinator Henri Venanzi Chorus Master Seann Alderking Elena Kholodova Valerie Pool Isaac Selya Carol Walker Coach-Accompanists Andrew Nienaber Assistant Director Constance Grubbs Super Captain Valerie Pool Isaac Selya Supertitles Coordinators Sarah Clark Artistic Intern Michael Ciavaglia Choral Conducting Intern

Marketing & Public Relations Katie Syroney Director of Marketing

Production Glenn Plott Director of Production

Ashley Tongret Director of Public Relations

Deb Jackson Production Administrator

Tracy L. Wilson Director of Community Relations

Kate Brockmeier Production Coordinator

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Thomas C. Hase Lighting Director Krista Billings Associate Lighting Designer

David A. Centers Scenic Art & Property Coordinator Rebecca Senske Costume Coordinator Chad Phillips Assistant Costume Coordinator

Todd Cummins Flyman John Wesley-Chevalier Shop Hand Paul Stafford Master Electrician E.J. Mechley Electric Second Hand

James D. Geier Hair & Make-up Designer

Allan Bird Board Operator

Nellie Sanderson Technical Assistant

Kevin Barth Master of Properties

Megan Bennett Whitney McAnally Production Stage Managers

Tim Fowler Property Second Hand

Hannah Holthaus Sydney Kuhlman Jennifer Picone Liam Roche Assistant Stage Managers Jennifer Rhodus Scenic Charge Artist Sarah Beth Hall Scenic Artist Nicole Pagano Hair & Make-up Artist Hayley Hunt Jenny Rissover Alex W. Seidel Stage Management Interns Jessica Doyle Westley Richter Lighting Interns Daniel Cuomo Jay Depenbrock Scenic & Properties Intern Alexandria Vazquez Hair & Make-up Intern Allyson Beheler Rehearsal Department Intern Erin Rose Barta ReKiya Davis Zoe Foster Lauren Lienhart Jacob Schirmer Alex Sutton Hanna Voss Nina Simone Walker SCPA Professional Trainees Technical Gary Kidney Technical Director Robert Lay Master Carpenter Art Berkeley Construction Carpenter Joe Hoffman John Myers Carpenter Second Hands

Cedric Collier Head Sound Technician Chris Walters Title Operator Diana Adams Costumer Cherl Beyersdoerfer Assistant Costumer Carol Poe Virginia Fryman Wardrobe Technicians Phil Sheridan Performance Engineer Hase & Associates, Ltd. Lighting Consultant Pebble Creek Group Projection & Video Consultant Tony Express Freight Coordinator Brad Gerard Kathy Magistrelli Jeff New George Smith SCPA Technical Staff House Staff Daniel Arute Matthew Burton Evan DiTullio Melissa Foster Molly Hanes Casey York Customer Service Representatives Amy Lewis House Manager Sue Sommer Head Usher Mike Snyder Audio Description

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General Information Please Note...

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

Elevators Passenger elevators are located in

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

Taxi Service Taxi service may be reserved by

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

• Please refrain from talking, texting, and tweeting 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.

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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.

Opera Insights An overview of each opera

is presented one hour prior to curtain.

Locations are the Music Hall Ballroom (June 12 only), Corbett Tower (all other Music Hall performances), and Mayerson Theater (all SCPA performances). Free to all ticket holders.

Assistive Listening System At Music Hall,

a wireless FM transmitter for the hearing impaired is available upon request with event personnel.

Audio Description At Music Hall, live descriptions of stage action for the visually impaired are presented by trained describers at select performances. Please inquire with event personnel.

Music Hall’s North Lobby and near the east entrance to SCPA’s Corbett Theater.

placing a request before the show or during intermission. At Music Hall, please inquire with the coatroom attendant. At SCPA, please inquire with event personnel.

Amenities Music Hall: Restrooms are

located on the first and second floors in the north and south corridors, and in the north corridor on the Gallery level. Accessible restrooms are on the first floor in the south corridor, west of the concession stand and backstage, on the second floor via the door facing the escalators, and in north restrooms on the third floor. An ATM is located on the balcony level. SCPA: Restrooms are located on the first and second floors in the main corridors, and accessible restrooms are located near the west entrance to Corbett Theater.

Broadcasts Cincinnati Opera’s 2014 season will be aired on WGUC 90.9 FM. Merchandise To purchase merchandise, contact Kelly Holterhoff at (513) 768-5511 or kholterhoff@cincinnatiopera.org.

Program Advertising Cincinnati Opera does

not necessarily endorse the views, products, or services presented by program advertisers.

For information about advertising in this program book, contact Ashley Tongret at (513) 768-5526 or atongret@cincinnatiopera.org.

Box Office Hours Monday–Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays on which there are performances from 12 noon through first intermission.

Accessible Seating Wheelchair access and assistance with other mobility issues are available. Please request locations or assistance when ordering tickets, and please reserve early.

Contact Information Email: feedback@cincinnatiopera.org Website: www.cincinnatiopera.org Main Phone: (513) 768-5500 Box Office: (513) 241-2742 Comment Line: (513) 768-5576 U.S. Mail: Cincinnati Opera

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